Aerostat communication design

Author

Brueggen, Adam ; Burchett, Lee ; Hartzell, Stephen ; Pennington, Jason ; Wilson, Joshua ; Martin, Richard ; Terzuoli, Andrew ; Walton, Eric ; Tubbs, Allan

Author_Institution

Air Force Inst. of Technol., Wright-Patterson AFB, OH, USA

fYear

2012

fDate

25-28 June 2012

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

3

Abstract

In this paper, we describe the current stage of our design for a large-scale aerostat communication system and the future developments we anticipate. Aerostats provide many benefits that are not offered by other means. To take full advantage of these benefits, data must be streamed to a ground station at a very high rate. We have proposed a Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) system with a phased array at the receiving end to fulfill this requirement. The phased array uses beam-forming to allow for individual transmitting elements to be resolved. Our current design and results are given, along with an analysis. In addition, we describe a scaled test-bed we have planned using Wireless Open-Access Research Platforms (WARP) from Rice University.

Keywords

MIMO communication; aircraft antennas; aircraft communication; antenna phased arrays; array signal processing; MIMO system; Rice University; WARP; aerostat communication design; beamforming; large-scale aerostat communication system; multiple-input multiple-output system; phased array; transmitting elements; wireless open-access research platforms; Arrays; Bandwidth; Field programmable gate arrays; MIMO; Receiving antennas; System analysis and design; Aerostat; Beam-Forming; Ku Band; MIMO; Phased Array; WARP;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Antenna Technology and Applied Electromagnetics (ANTEM), 2012 15th International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Toulouse

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-0290-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ANTEM.2012.6262364

Filename

6262364