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Facilitating Satellite-Airborne-Terrestrial Integration for Dynamic and Infrastructure-less Networks
This paper studies the potential improvement in the achievable data rate
available to ground users by integrating satellite, airborne, and terrestrial
networks. The goal is to establish dynamic wireless services in remote or
infrastructure-less areas. This integration uses high-altitude platforms in the
exosphere, stratosphere, and troposphere for better altitude reuse coupled with
emerging optical or other high-frequency directional transceivers. Hence they
offer a significant increases in the scarce spectrum aggregate efficiency.
However, managing resource allocation with deployment in this integrated system
still has some difficulties. This paper aims to tackle resource management
challenges by (i) providing wireless services to ground users in remote areas
and connecting them with metropolitan and rural areas, (ii) employing
high-altitude platforms (HAPs) equipped with free-space-optical communication
modules for back-hauling backbone. Finally, we show how our results illustrate
the advantages of using the proposed scheme