Anicho, Ogbonnaya and Charlesworth, Philip B and Baicher, Gurvinder S and Nagar, Atulya K. (2023) High Altitude Platform Stations as IMT Base Stations (HIBS): Reliability and Availability Analysis. In: Future Technologies Conference (FTC) 2023, 2-3 November 2023, San Francisco, United States. (Accepted for Publication)
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High Altitude Platform Stations as IMT Base Stations (HIBS) are aerial platforms that will function as flying base stations. There are clear advantages to using these types of assets to extend communications coverage addressing existing digital gaps, especially in unserved or underserved communities. In this paper, HIBS is examined from the context of its integration with 5G new radio (NR) as a non-terrestrial network asset. The challenge of HIBS meeting the stringent operational reliability and availability targets of legacy telecommunication networks is explored. The work analyses the performance of HAPS/HIBS platform record holders, Zephyr and Loon in terms of their reliability and availability profiles in a telecoms operations environment. Findings conclude that while the mean time between failure (MTBF) of these platforms is improving, telecom operations demand higher reliability and availability performances making advanced platform redundancy an imperative for HIBS implementation.
| Item Type: | Conference or Workshop Item (Paper) |
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| Keywords: | HAPS, HIBS, Reliability, Availability, Networks |
| Faculty / Department: | Faculty of Human and Digital Sciences > School of Computer Science and the Environment |
| Depositing User: | Ogbonnaya Anicho |
| Date Deposited: | 01 Aug 2023 13:42 |
| Last Modified: | 17 Feb 2025 14:27 |
| URI: | https://hira.hope.ac.uk/id/eprint/4002 |
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