Investigating the effect of High Altitude Platform Positioning on Latency and Coverage of 4G Cellular Systems

Wireless communication technologies are rapidly being adopted and developed by countries all over the world as a strategy for sustaining a digital economy. This has proven very useful for economic recovery from the crises brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic of the year 2020. The latency and cover...

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Published in:International journal of communication networks and information security 2022-04, Vol.14 (1), p.37-42
Main Authors: SULEIMAN, SANI MAKUSIDI, SHUAIBU, DAHIRU SANI, BABALE, SULEIMAN ALIYU
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
4G mobile communication
Aircraft
Algorithms
Altitude
Antennas
Balloons
Cellular communication
Communication channels
Computer simulation
Coronaviruses
COVID-19
Digital economy
Disease transmission
Economics
Experiments
High altitude
Internet access
Literature reviews
Network latency
Pandemics
Radio communications
Relay
Spectrum allocation
Technology
Wireless communications
Wireless networks
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Summary:Wireless communication technologies are rapidly being adopted and developed by countries all over the world as a strategy for sustaining a digital economy. This has proven very useful for economic recovery from the crises brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic of the year 2020. The latency and coverage area of a wireless network are two major areas that are always seeking improvement. The High Altitude Platform communication technology can provide improvement in speed and coverage area for 4G cellular systems. This work investigated the effect of positioning High Altitude Platforms on the latency and coverage of 4G cellular Systems. A quantitative approach was used in the methodology of this paper. A HAP model showing a single platform flying in a circular trajectory over Base Transceiver Stations BTSs and serving as a relay mobile station was presented. A detailed simulation algorithm for the HAP and results for the simulation were given. Results showed that using the HAP as a relay mobile station in a network can give a latency reduction of up to 58.9%.  Also, the altitude of the HAP directly affects the angle of reception which was found to improve the coverage.
ISSN:2076-0930
2073-607X
2073-607X
2076-0930
DOI:10.17762/ijcnis.v14i1.5161