Title
Satellite multi-beam coverage analysis for handover rate reduction
Abstract
From the literature, we know that regular hexagonal coverage is the optimal seamless coverage for terrestrial wireless network, i.e. cellular network [1], as it could achieve minimum handover rates compared with other seamless coverage like triangle coverage, rectangle coverage and etc [2][3][4]. However, different from the terrestrial wireless network, both the movements of user equipments (UEs) and access points (APs) could lead to handover in satellite communication network [5]. Thus regular hexagonal coverage is no longer the optimal multi-beam coverage mode for non-geostationary satellite to reduce handover rates. In this paper, we propose a multi-beam coverage scheme based on prolate hexagon coverage mode, analyze the impacts of shape parameters, the movements of satellite and UEs on handover rates, derive the arithmetic expression of handover rates and then give the optimal shape parameters. Through computer simulation, we validate our analysis.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.1109/WCSP.2014.6992116
WCSP
Keywords
Field
DocType
mobile satellite communication,user equipment,network coverage,cellular radio,satellite net-work,mobility management (mobile radio),network topology,terrestrial wireless network,handover rate,cellular network,triangle coverage,rectangle coverage,optimal shape parameter,access point,radio equipment,handover rate reduction,ap,satellite multibeam coverage analysis,optimal seamless coverage,ue,nongeostationary satellite communication network,regular hexagonal coverage
Satellite,Computer science,Computer network,Real-time computing,Beam (structure),Handover
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
1
0.36
6
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Yun Chen1156.17
Bin Fang252.16
Sihai Zhang36319.50
Wuyang Zhou422647.51