Coexistence Analysis Between IMT-2020 and AES operating in L Band on a Final Approach

Abstract

This paper is regarding the statistical coexistence analysis between a cluster of International Mobile Telecommunication 2020 (IMT-2020) Base Stations and an Aircraft Earth Station (AES) operating during flight time in the L Band on a final approach. We assess the cumulative distribution function (CDF) of interference-over-noise ratio (INR) considering the fuselage attenuation contribution and compare it with the AES protection criteria. Our coexistence analysis approach considers the use of a high gain AES commercial antenna model, for an aircraft at two different altitudes, 187 m and 83 m, for 3600 m and 1600 m of horizontal distance from the runway threshold, respectively. Therefore, considering the IMT-2020 suburban scenario near the airport, simulation results presented an INR that met the protection criteria for 100% and 99.95% of the time for the distances of 3600 m and 1600 m from the runway, respectively, making the spectrum sharing feasible between systems. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first time in the literature that fuselage attenuation considering part of the plane, in the L-band is presented in a statistical coexistence analysis.