The coverage, capacity and coexistence of mixed high altitude platform and terrestrial segments

This thesis explores the coverage, capacity and coexistence of High Altitude Platform (HAP) and terrestrial segments in the same service area. Given the limited spectrum available, mechanisms to manage the co-channel interference to enable effective coexistence between the two infrastructures are ex...

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Main Author: Muhammad Danial Zakaria (Author)
Format: Thesis Book
Language:English
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502 |a Thesis (Doctor of Philosophy in Electronic Engineering) - University of York,2019 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references (leaves147-153) 
505 0 |a 1. Introduction -- 2. Literature review -- 3. System modelling and performance evaluation -- 4. Antenna array beam-pointing techniques for high altitude platforms -- 5. Exploiting user-centric joint transmission - coordinated multipoint with a high altitude platform system architecture -- 6. Network functional split for a 5G C-RAN based system exploiting joint high altitude platform and terrestrial segments -- 7. Conclusion and future work 
520 |a This thesis explores the coverage, capacity and coexistence of High Altitude Platform (HAP) and terrestrial segments in the same service area. Given the limited spectrum available, mechanisms to manage the co-channel interference to enable effective coexistence between the two infrastructures are examined. Interference arising from the HAP, caused by the relatively high transmit power and the antenna beam profile, has the potential to significantly affect the existing terrestrial system on the ground if the HAP beams are deployed without a proper strategy. Beam­pointing strategies exploiting phased array antennas on the HAPs are shown to be an effective way to place the beams, with each of them forming service cells onto the ground in the service area, especially dense user areas. Using a newly developed RF clustering technique to better point the cells over an area of a dense group of users, it is shown that near maximum coverage of 96% of the population over the service area can be provided while maintaining the coexistence with the existing terrestrial system. To improve the user experience at the cell edge, while at the same time improving the overall capacity of the system, Joint Tran mission - Coordinated Multipoint (JT-CoMP) is adapted for a HAP architecture. It is shown how the HAP can potentially enable the tight scheduling needed to perform IT-CoMP due to the centralisation of all virtual E-UTRAN Node Bs (eNodeBs) on the HAP. A trade-off between CINR gain and loss of capacity when adapting IT-CoMP into the HAP system is identified, and strategies to minimise the trade-off are considered. [t is shown that 57% of the user b n fit from the IT-CoMP. In order to enable coordination between the HAP and terrestrial segments, ajoint architecture based on a Cloud - Radio Access Network (C-RAN) system is introduced. Apart from adapting a C-RA N based system to centrally connect the two segments together, the network functional split which varies the degree of the centralised processing is also considered to deal with the limitations of HAP fronthaullink requirements. Based on the fronthaullink requirements acquired from the different splitting options, the ground relay station diversity to connect the HAP to centralised and distributed units (CUs and DUs) is also considered. 
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650 0 |a Wireless communication systems  
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