Abstract on

High Altitude Long Operation

By:

Pawan Anand
MBA(TM)
Symbiosis Institute of Telecom Management
 Abstract

Broadband wireless millimetre wavelength services provided from a High Altitude Long
Operation (HALO) Aircraft are now feasible. The paper will emphasize on the
conceptual design of a "bandwidth-on-demand" wireless network whose data rates to
and from the subscriber will measure in the multi-megabit per second range. A variety
of metropolitan area spectrum bands offer the needed bandwidth. An attractive choice
is the LMDS band near 28 GHz and system characteristics at this frequency will be
described.

The HALO Aircraft fuselage will house packet switching circuitry and fast digital
network functions. The communications antenna and related components will be
located in a pod suspended below the aircraft fuselage. To offer "ubiquitous" service
throughout a large region, the HALO antenna will utilize multiple beams arranged in a
typical cellular pattern. Broadband channels to subscribers in adjacent cells will be
separated in frequency. As the beams traverse over a user location, the virtual path
through the packet switch will be changed to perform a beam-to-beam handoff.

Overviews of the system architecture and the network elements will be presented along
with descriptions of the frequency plan and equipment. The utilization of components
under development for terrestrial LMDS products will be described.

Pawan Anand

MBA(TM)

Symbiosis Institute of Telecom Management