The role of high-altitude platforms (HAPs) in the global wireless connectivity

A Mohammed, A Mehmood, FN Pavlidou… - Proceedings of the …, 2011 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Since 1990s, the investigations of aerospace communication segment have not only been
concerned with satellites, but increasingly with lower altitude repeaters flying in the …

Adaptive modulation and coding techniques for global navigation satellite system inter‐satellite communication based on the channel condition

J Huang, Y Su, W Liu, F Wang - Iet Communications, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Inter‐satellite link (ISL) will play an increasingly important role in the next generation of
global navigation satellite system (GNSS). The inter‐satellite distances in the GNSS vary …

Optimizing adaptive coding and modulation for satellite network with ML-based CSI prediction

X Wang, H Li, Q Wu - 2019 IEEE Wireless Communications …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The introduction of adaptive coding and modulation (ACM) in DVB-S2 improves system
capacity. Transmission mode is adapted to receiving conditions which are fed back through …

Exploiting platform diversity for GoS improvement for users with different High Altitude Platform availability

Y Liu, D Grace, PD Mitchell - IEEE Transactions on Wireless …, 2009 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper investigates the ways of improving the Grade-of-Service (GoS) in a coexistence
scenario with different user types in a multiple High Altitude Platforms (HAPs) system with …

Link-adaptive and QoS-provisioning cooperative ARQ—applications to relay-assisted land mobile satellite communications

M Mardani, JS Harsini, F Lahouti… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2011 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In a cooperative relay network, a relay (R) node may facilitate data transmission to the
destination (D) node when the latter node cannot correctly decode the source (S) node data …

Virtual multiple input multiple output in multiple high-altitude platform constellations

T Celcer, T Javornik, M Mohorcic, G Kandus - IET communications, 2009 - IET
Multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) technology, which makes use of the spatial dimension
by utilising multiple antennas at the transmitter and receiver, has proved an efficient solution …

Three-state semi-Markov channel model for HAP-high speed train communication link

M Li, M Yang, G Lv, Q Guo - 2011 6th International ICST …, 2011 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Given that single-state model can only describe single channel environment, while multiple-
state model brings more parameters and more complicated simulation work, a three-state …

On the mapping problem using simulated annealing

C Lee, L Bic - 1989 Eighth Annual International Phoenix Conference …, 1989 - computer.org
Given that single-state model can only describe single channel environment, while multiple-
state model brings more parameters and more complicated simulation work, a three-state …

[PDF][PDF] Modelling of atmospheric impairments in stratospheric communications

G Kandus, M Mohorčič, E Leitgeb… - Proceedings of the 2008 …, 2008 - academia.edu
Stratospheric communication systems operating in the millimetre frequency bands are
subject to atmospheric impairments caused by rain and scintillation. In this paper we …

Evaluation of diversity gain and system capacity increase in a multiple HAP system

T Celcer, G Kandus, T Javornik… - … on Satellite and …, 2006 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
High altitude platform (HAP) system offers establishment of communication links with
predominantly line-of-sight (LOS) conditions due to high elevation angles. However, in …