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Beamforming and Synchronization Algorithms Integration for OFDM HAP-Based Communications

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High Altitude Platforms (HAPs) are currently experiencing a great interest as potential solutions for the growing demand of wireless broadband applications, but their rapid motion and the characteristics of the stratospheric channel, which may cause strong attenuation, multipath fading and Doppler shift, can strongly impact their performances. The described scenario requires the use of beamforming techniques, able to provide medium to high gains in a mobile environment. Given these premises, this paper discusses the conjugation of OFDM techniques with smart antennas for HAP-based communications, stressing the need for integration of the different functional blocks of an OFDM receiver. In fact, in order to face a time varying scenario, adaptive techniques are needed, and only a careful joint design of time and frequency synchronization with beamforming algorithms can guarantee reliable communication. The detailed and integrated receiver design described in the paper is based on the OFDM version of the IEEE 802.16a transmission standard.

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  1. The index k will be sometimes neglected when describing operations that are performed once per symbol.

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This work was partially supported by the Capanina project (FP6 IST-2003-506745), funded under the EU VI Framework Programme.

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  1. Dipartimento di Elettronica, Politecnico di Torino, Corso Duca degli Abruzzi, 24, 10129, Torino, Italy

    Daniele Borio, Letizia Lo Presti & Marina Mondin

  2. NavSAS group, Istituto Superiore Mario Boella, Via Pier Carlo Boggio 61, 10138, Torino, Italy

    Laura Camoriano

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Borio, D., Camoriano, L., Presti, L.L. et al. Beamforming and Synchronization Algorithms Integration for OFDM HAP-Based Communications. Int J Wireless Inf Networks 13, 43–57 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10776-005-0016-8

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