TY - GEN
T1 - High Altitude Platform Stations (HAPS)
T2 - 93rd IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference, VTC 2021-Spring
AU - Xing, Yunchou
AU - Hsieh, Frank
AU - Ghosh, Amitava
AU - Rappaport, Theodore S.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 IEEE.
PY - 2021/4
Y1 - 2021/4
N2 - High Altitude Platform Station (HAPS) has the potential to provide global wireless connectivity and data services such as high-speed wireless backhaul, industrial Internet of things (IoT), and public safety for large areas not served by terrestrial networks. A unified HAPS design is desired to support various use cases and a wide range of requirements. In this paper, we present two architecture designs of the HAPS system: i) repeater based HAPS, and ii) base station based HAPS, which are both viable technical solutions. The energy efficiency is analyzed and compared between the two architectures using consumption factor theory. The system performance of these two architectures is evaluated through Monte Carlo simulations and is characterized in metrics of spectral efficiency using LTE band 1 for both single-cell and multi-cell cases. Both designs can provide good downlink spectral efficiency and coverage, while the uplink coverage is significantly limited by UE transmit power and antenna gain. Using directional antennas at the UEs can improve the system performance for both downlink and uplink.
AB - High Altitude Platform Station (HAPS) has the potential to provide global wireless connectivity and data services such as high-speed wireless backhaul, industrial Internet of things (IoT), and public safety for large areas not served by terrestrial networks. A unified HAPS design is desired to support various use cases and a wide range of requirements. In this paper, we present two architecture designs of the HAPS system: i) repeater based HAPS, and ii) base station based HAPS, which are both viable technical solutions. The energy efficiency is analyzed and compared between the two architectures using consumption factor theory. The system performance of these two architectures is evaluated through Monte Carlo simulations and is characterized in metrics of spectral efficiency using LTE band 1 for both single-cell and multi-cell cases. Both designs can provide good downlink spectral efficiency and coverage, while the uplink coverage is significantly limited by UE transmit power and antenna gain. Using directional antennas at the UEs can improve the system performance for both downlink and uplink.
KW - 5G
KW - High Altitude Platform Station (HAPS)
KW - Nonterrestrial Networks (NTN)
KW - bent-pipe
KW - consumption factor theory
KW - path loss
KW - regenerative
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U2 - 10.1109/VTC2021-Spring51267.2021.9448899
DO - 10.1109/VTC2021-Spring51267.2021.9448899
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85112463231
T3 - IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference
BT - 2021 IEEE 93rd Vehicular Technology Conference, VTC 2021-Spring - Proceedings
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Y2 - 25 April 2021 through 28 April 2021
ER -