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IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Communications

Channel Characterization and Performance Evaluation of Mobile Communication Employing Stratospheric Platforms

ISKANDAR, Shigeru SHIMAMOTO

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Stratospheric platforms have been recently proposed as a new wireless infrastructure for realizing the next generation of communication systems. To provide high quality services, an investigation of the wireless stratospheric platform channel is essential. This paper proposes a definition and describes an analysis of the wireless channel for the link between stratospheric platforms and terrestrial mobile users based on an experiment in a semi-urban environment. Narrowband channel characteristics are presented in terms of Ricean factor (K factor) and local mean received power over a wide range of elevation angles ranging from 10to 90. Finally, we evaluated average bit error probability based on the proposed channel model to examine the channel performance. For the environment in which the measurements were conducted, we find that elevation angles greater than 40yield better performance.

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IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Communications Vol.E89-B No.3 pp.937-944
Publication Date
2006/03/01
Publicized
Online ISSN
1745-1345
DOI
10.1093/ietcom/e89-b.3.937
Type of Manuscript
PAPER
Category
Integrated Systems for Communications

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