HAPS Selection for Hybrid RF/FSO Satellite Networks

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Ben Yahia O., ERDOĞAN E., Karabulut Kurt G. Z., Altunbaş İ., Yanikomeroglu H.

IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON AEROSPACE AND ELECTRONIC SYSTEMS, cilt.58, sa.4, ss.2855-2867, 2022 (SCI-Expanded) identifier identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Cilt numarası: 58 Sayı: 4
  • Basım Tarihi: 2022
  • Doi Numarası: 10.1109/taes.2022.3142116
  • Dergi Adı: IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON AEROSPACE AND ELECTRONIC SYSTEMS
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Scopus, Academic Search Premier, Aerospace Database, Applied Science & Technology Source, Business Source Elite, Business Source Premier, Communication Abstracts, Compendex, Computer & Applied Sciences, INSPEC, Metadex, Civil Engineering Abstracts
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.2855-2867
  • Anahtar Kelimeler: Attenuation, Fading channels, Radio frequency, Satellites, Signal to noise ratio, Apertures, Atmospheric modeling, High-altitude platform station (HAPS), hybrid radio frequency (RF), free-space optical (FSO), satellite communication (SatCom), stratospheric attenuation, OPTICAL COMMUNICATIONS, FSO/RF COMMUNICATION, PERFORMANCE, SYSTEM
  • İstanbul Teknik Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

Nonterrestrial networks have been attracting much interest from the industry and academia. Satellites and high-altitude platform station (HAPS) systems are expected to be the key enablers of next-generation wireless networks. In this article, we introduce a novel downlink satellite communication (SatCom) model, where free-space optical (FSO) communication is adopted between a satellite and a HAPS node. A hybrid FSO/radio-frequency transmission model is used between the HAPS node and the ground station (GS). In the first phase of transmission, the satellite selects the HAPS node that provides the highest signal-to-noise ratio. In the second phase, the selected HAPS decodes and forwards the signal to the GS. To evaluate the performance of the proposed system, outage probability expressions are derived for exponentiated Weibull and shadowed-Rician fading models while considering the atmospheric turbulence, stratospheric attenuation, and attenuation due to scattering, path loss, and pointing errors. Additionally, asymptotic analysis is carried out, and diversity gain is provided. Furthermore, the impacts of the aperture averaging technique, temperature, and wind speed are investigated. We also provide some important guidelines that can be helpful for the design of practical HAPS-aided SatCom. Finally, the results show that the use of HAPS improves the system performance and that the proposed model performs better than all other existing models.