Fahad Alraddady

Work place: College of Computers and Information Technology, Taif University, 21974, Saudi Arabia

E-mail: alraddady@tu.edu.sa

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Research Interests: Process Control System, Data Structures and Algorithms, Analysis of Algorithms, Control Theory

Biography

Fahad Alraddady: Master of Science in personal mobile and satellite communications in 2002 and Doctor of Philosophy in Telecommunication Network from the University of Bradford, Bradford, U.K, 2008. He also has been certified in Quality Management Systems Requirement (ISO 9001), PME Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. His research interests include mobile communications, satellite communications, high-altitude platforms communications,  and digital signal processing. He has many papers in the field of queue management algorithms for Internet congestion control. Dr. Fahad was the vice dean of quality affairs in the college of Computers and Information Technology, Taif University, Saudi Arabia. Now, he is the dean of the College of Computers and Information Technology, Taif University, Saudi Arabia.

Author Articles
Performance of High-Altitude Platforms Cellular Communications using Hamming-Tapered Concentric Circular Arrays

By Fahad Alraddady

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5815/ijitcs.2014.12.02, Pub. Date: 8 Nov. 2014

In this paper, the performance of cellular communications based on the ambitious technology of High-Altitude Platforms (HAPs) is discussed when using tapered concentric circular arrays. The coverage cell will be described and designed with an efficient beamforming technique where the Hamming window is proposed as a tapering function and applied to the uniform concentric circular arrays (UCCA) for sidelobe reduction. Based on establishing some mapping curves, this novel tapering window is optimized in its parameters to have the lowest possible sidelobe level that can be 45 dB below the main lobe level. The optimum weights of Hamming window are found to be function of the number of elements of the innermost ring and the number of rings in the array. The cell power pattern is also discussed where the out-of-cell radiation is greatly reduced which in turns reduces the co-channel interference and improves the Carrier-to-Interference Ratio (CIR).

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