Abstract
The combination of satellite direct reception and terrestrial 5G infrastructure is essential to guarantee coverage in satellite based-Internet of Things, mainly in smart cities where buildings can cause high power losses. In this paper, we propose an accurate and fast graphical method for predicting the satellite coverage in urban areas and SatCom on-the-move scenarios. The aim is to provide information that could be useful in the IoT network planning process, e.g., in the decision of how many terrestrial repeaters are really needed and where they should be placed. Experiments show that the shadowed areas predicted by the method correspond almost perfectly with experimental data measured from an Eutelsat satellite in the urban area of Barcelona.
Highlights
After a brief overview of the available technologies, we present and discuss the different techniques for predicting the coverage of the satellite radiolink in urban areas.2.1
Most of the typical deployment scenarios for enhanced Mobile Broadband (eMBB), mMTC, and Ultra-Reliable and Low Latency Communications (URLLC) analyzed in the 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) technical report [7] are intended to be implemented in smart cities, where the goal is to maintain continuous and ubiquitous coverage with high traffic loads
In the context of 5G technology, the integration of terrestrial and satellite systems can be considered through Geostationary Earth Orbit (GEO), Medium Earth Orbit (MEO), or Low Earth Orbit (LEO)
Summary
Communications (mMTC) [2,3,4]. As is well-known, terrestrial-only networks cannot ensure a proper access to Internet and other communication services in remote areas or where the infrastructure is damaged due to natural extreme events, just to cite a few examples. Most of the typical deployment scenarios for eMBB, mMTC, and URLLC analyzed in the 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) technical report [7] are intended to be implemented in smart cities, where the goal is to maintain continuous and ubiquitous coverage with high traffic loads In this context, satellites could help to alleviate the traffic congestion of terrestrial 5G infrastructure during peak hours by broadcasting large amounts of delay non-sensitive data, so this is a market in which satellite providers are increasingly interested. GEO satellites are a key piece in the International Charter “Space and Major Disasters” [23] In this regard, to carry out the planning of the network, we first require reliable propagation models that are simultaneously easy to implement and computationally efficient, so that they may be even implemented in some terminals and the IoT gateways.
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