Presentation 2023-04-13
Null Sweeping for Reduction of Residual Interference between HAPS and Terrestrial Systems
Tsutomu Ishikawa, Koji Tashiro, Kenji Hoshino, Atsushi Nagate,
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Abstract(in English) A high-altitude platform station (HAPS) is a promising technology which realizes the coverage extension in the 6G wireless systems. From the aspects of spectral efficiency, it is desirable that HAPS uses the same frequencies that terrestrial systems use. Assuming this spectrum sharing, interference reduction between HAPS and the terrestrial systems is essential; therefore, the scheme where HAPS forms a single null towards each ground base station (BS) has been considered. However, we cannot necessarily protect the whole area of the ground cell by the single null. The communication quality around the cell edge becomes low. In particular, this quality deterioration of the ground cells near HAPS would be significant. In this paper, we propose a scheme where HAPS changes the direction of the single null over the time or frequency domain, which we call null sweeping. In this scheme, HAPS cooperates with the terrestrial systems, and reduces the residual interference with numerous ground cell users. Simulation results show that the proposed scheme improves the received signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratio and the sum capacity of the terrestrial systems even in the case that the ground BSs are located relatively close to HAPS.
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Keyword(in English) HAPS / spectrum sharing / MU-MIMO / nullforming
Paper # RCS2023-2
Date of Issue 2023-04-06 (RCS)

Conference Information
Committee RCS
Conference Date 2023/4/13(2days)
Place (in Japanese) (See Japanese page)
Place (in English) Matsue New Urban Hotel, and online
Topics (in Japanese) (See Japanese page)
Topics (in English) Railroad Communications, Inter-Vehicle Communications, Road to Vehicle Communications, Radio Access Technologies, Wireless Communications, etc.
Chair Kenichi Higuchi(Tokyo Univ. of Science)
Vice Chair Tomoya Tandai(Toshiba) / Fumihide Kojima(NICT) / Osamu Muta(Kyushu Univ.)
Secretary Tomoya Tandai(Panasonic) / Fumihide Kojima(Univ. of Electro-Comm) / Osamu Muta(Sharp)
Assistant Manabu Sakai(Mitsubishi Electric) / Masashi Iwabuchi(NTT) / Issei Kanno(KDDI Research) / Yuyuan Chang(Tokyo Inst. of Tech) / Kazuki Maruta(Tokyo Univ. of Science)

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Registration To Technical Committee on Radio Communication Systems
Language JPN
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Title (in English) Null Sweeping for Reduction of Residual Interference between HAPS and Terrestrial Systems
Sub Title (in English)
Keyword(1) HAPS
Keyword(2) spectrum sharing
Keyword(3) MU-MIMO
Keyword(4) nullforming
1st Author's Name Tsutomu Ishikawa
1st Author's Affiliation SoftBank Corporation(SoftBank Corp.)
2nd Author's Name Koji Tashiro
2nd Author's Affiliation SoftBank Corporation(SoftBank Corp.)
3rd Author's Name Kenji Hoshino
3rd Author's Affiliation SoftBank Corporation(SoftBank Corp.)
4th Author's Name Atsushi Nagate
4th Author's Affiliation SoftBank Corporation(SoftBank Corp.)
Date 2023-04-13
Paper # RCS2023-2
Volume (vol) vol.123
Number (no) RCS-3
Page pp.pp.7-12(RCS),
#Pages 6
Date of Issue 2023-04-06 (RCS)