Presentation 2020-07-17
Prototype Development and Basic Experimental Evaluation of Service Link Antenna for Footprint Fixation in HAPS System
Shoichi Sudo, Kenji Hoshino, Yoshichika Ohta,
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Abstract(in English) High-Altitude Platform Station (HAPS) is attracting attention as a new communication platform for disaster countermeasures because it can cover an ultra-wide area at once while enabling direct communication with mobile devices on the ground. Because HAPS flies in circles through the stratosphere, the service area on the ground (footprint) is displaced and the communication quality cannot be maintained at a constant level. In order to address this issue, we have proposed footprint fixation control method using a cylindrical array antenna. In this paper, we report on a prototype development of service link antenna for the proposed method and show that the proposed footprint fixation control can be realized with a real device from the measurement results of the beam pattern and the footprint fixation control.
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Keyword(in English) HAPS / Footprint Fixation / Cylindrical array antenna / Pseudo-inverse matrix / Experiment
Paper # AP2020-22
Date of Issue 2020-07-08 (AP)

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Committee AP / SANE / SAT
Conference Date 2020/7/15(3days)
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Place (in English) Online
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Topics (in English) Subsurface Electromagnetic Measurements, Sattelite Communication, Radio propagation, Antennas and Propagation
Chair Qiang Chen(Tohoku Univ.) / Akitsugu Nadai(NICT) / Hisashi Sujikai(NHK)
Vice Chair Satoru Kurokawa(AIST) / Hiroyoshi Yamada(Niigata Univ.) / Makoto Tanaka(Tokai Univ.) / Hiroyasu Ishikawa(Nihon Univ.) / Tetsushi Ikegami(Meiji Univ.)
Secretary Satoru Kurokawa(Tokyo Univ. of Agric. & Tech.) / Hiroyoshi Yamada(NTT DOCOMO) / Makoto Tanaka(Mitsubishi Electric) / Hiroyasu Ishikawa(Univ. of Tokyo) / Tetsushi Ikegami(NHK)
Assistant Dr. Kim(Niigata Univ.) / Shunichi Futatsumori(ENRI) / Takuya Okura(NICT) / Daisuke Goto(NTT)

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Registration To Technical Committee on Antennas and Propagation / Technical Committee on Space, Aeronautical and Navigational Electronics / Technical Committee on Satellite Telecommunications
Language JPN
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Title (in English) Prototype Development and Basic Experimental Evaluation of Service Link Antenna for Footprint Fixation in HAPS System
Sub Title (in English)
Keyword(1) HAPS
Keyword(2) Footprint Fixation
Keyword(3) Cylindrical array antenna
Keyword(4) Pseudo-inverse matrix
Keyword(5) Experiment
1st Author's Name Shoichi Sudo
1st Author's Affiliation SoftBank Corp.(SB)
2nd Author's Name Kenji Hoshino
2nd Author's Affiliation SoftBank Corp.(SB)
3rd Author's Name Yoshichika Ohta
3rd Author's Affiliation SoftBank Corp.(SB)
Date 2020-07-17
Paper # AP2020-22
Volume (vol) vol.120
Number (no) AP-97
Page pp.pp.75-80(AP),
#Pages 6
Date of Issue 2020-07-08 (AP)