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Handover Performance of Unstable-Yaw Stratospheric High-Altitude Stations

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Stratospheric platform (SP) is a new technique for providing mobile and data communications and is capable to add many advantages to the users compared to conventional terrestrial and satellite systems. A very competing problem of this emerging system is the positional instability of SP which affects the system performance. In this paper, one main problem of SP positional instabilities—which is the rotation drift—is described and analyzed and its impact on the call handover in cellular systems is also investigated. The total handover due to both user mobility and platform positional instability is explained and determined. In addition, an expression for the number of handed calls is deduced which has been shown as function of user density, distribution, platform angular shift due to rotation, cell geometry, and number of active calling users. The analysis of this number shows the serious effects of the rotational motion instability on the system performance.

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The authors would like to extend their sincere appreciation to the Deanship of Scientific Research at King Saud University for its funding of this research through Research Group Project RGP-VPP-229.

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  1. Department of Computer Engineering, College of Computers and Information Technology, Taif University, Taif, Saudi Arabia

    Yasser Albagory & Mostafa Nofal

  2. Electronics and Electrical Communications Department, Faculty of Electronic Engineering, Menoufia University, Menouf, Egypt

    Yasser Albagory & Mostafa Nofal

  3. Department of Software Engineering, College of Computer Science and Information Sciences, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

    Ahmed Ghoneim

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Albagory, Y., Nofal, M. & Ghoneim, A. Handover Performance of Unstable-Yaw Stratospheric High-Altitude Stations. Wireless Pers Commun 84, 2651–2663 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11277-015-2758-7

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