2021/11/15 by Ahmad Alsharoa, Mohamed‐Slim Alouini, Alsharoa, Ahmad +1
Engineering · #Aerospace Engineering and Energy Systems #FOS: Electrical engineering #Optical Wireless Communication Technologies #Satellite Communication Systems #Systems and Control (eess.SY) #electronic engineering #information engineering
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2111.07506
openalex publication_date 2021/11/15 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
This magazine investigates the potential enhancement of the data throughput of ground users by integrating ground base stations (GBS) with air stations, such as balloon, airborne, and satellite. The objective is to establish dynamic bi-directional wireless services (i.e., uplink and downlink) for ground users in congested and remote areas. The proposed integration involves satellite, high-altitude platforms (HAPs), and tethered balloons (TBs) in the exosphere, stratosphere, and troposphere, respectively, for better altitude reuse coupled with emerging optical or other high-frequency directional transceivers. This will lead to a significant enhancement in scarce spectrum aggregate efficiency. However, the air stations deployment and resource managements in this integrated system faces difficulties. This article tackles resource management challenges by (i) providing wireless services to ground users in remote areas and connecting them with metropolitan and rural areas and (ii) employing HAPs equipped with free-space-optical communication modules as back-hauling backbones. Finally, we illustrate some numerical results to show the benefit of our proposed integrated system.