High altitude platforms (HAPs) W-CDMA system over cities

Author

Taha-Ahmed, Bazil ; Calvo-Ramón, Miguel ; De Haro-Ariet, Leandro

Author_Institution

Dept. Sistemas, Senales y Radiocomunicaciones, Univ. Politecnica de Madrid, Spain

Volume

4

fYear

2005

fDate

30 May-1 June 2005

Firstpage

2673

Abstract

The performance of downlink power control model, based on a n-th power distance law, is evaluated for high altitude platform station (HAPS) W-CDMA systems. The downlink capacity using this model is compared with the uplink capacity. It is shown that the uplink capacity is higher than the downlink capacity. As a case study it is shown that Madrid (the capital) can be covered by a platform with 169 beam. For a HAPS platform with 169 cells (beams) the total practical capacity of the system could be in the order of 10000 voice users or 1250 data users.

Keywords

broadband networks; cellular radio; code division multiple access; power control; radio links; telecommunication control; Madrid; W-CDMA system; data users; downlink power control model; high altitude platform station; nth power distance law; uplink capacity; voice users; Artificial satellites; Cities and towns; Downlink; Interference; Multiaccess communication; Phased arrays; Power control; Power system modeling; Satellite broadcasting; Wireless communication; Downlink capacity; HAPs; Uplink capacity; WCDMA; power control;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Vehicular Technology Conference, 2005. VTC 2005-Spring. 2005 IEEE 61st

ISSN

1550-2252

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8887-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/VETECS.2005.1543820

Filename

1543820