The requirements for data rate and capacity in wireless communication systems have increased dramatically over the last couple of decades, and it is expected that this increase will continue in the years to come. Including higher frequency bands providing additional bandwidth is a key strategy to me...

Data from a weather radar located above the polar circle in the North Sea are used to estimate the rain attenuation for a satellite link towards a geostationary satellite operating at Ka-band. Radar reflectivity data are obtained along the slant path from a beacon receiver located close to the radar...

ANTARES is a study within the Iris Programme of the European Space Agency, to design a satellite communication system that will provide ATM services over Europe and the surrounding oceanic areas beyond 2020-2025. As part of the development phase, the interference level that can be expected to be exp...

In order to meet the demand for increased capacity in wireless networks, incorporating femtocells within the coverage of macrocells constitutes one of the strategies that currently receives most attention from both industry and academia. Femtocells may either be part of a HetNet as standardised with...

AeroMACS is a system currently under development for airport surface communications. It is based on the IEEE802.16-2009 standard, and is developed in cooperation with the WiMAX forum. The frequency band allocated to AeroMACS is 5091-5150 MHz. When specifying the AeroMACS system, knowledge of typical...

SECOMAS was a research project running from January 2007 to December 2010 targeting spectral efficient communications for aeronautical services. The Research partners of the project were SINTEF and NTNU, and the project was funded by the Norwegian Research Council and members of the Norwegian ATM in...

This paper contains results from compatibility studies between AeroMACS and other systems operating in the same or adjacent frequency bands. These systems are RLAN, AMT, MLS and FSS feeder links. For compatibility with the terrestrial systems, the minimum distance to interferer is calculated, i.e. t...

State-of-the-art radio communication systems are in a large extent based on multi-carrier communication (OFDM) and multiple antennas (MIMO). In this paper the performance of such systems adapted to an underwater acoustic communication channel is assessed. The effect of the channel characteristics on...

It is currently a significant ongoing effort worldwide to develop the future Air Traffic Management (ATM) system. As part of this work, a satellite communication system may ease the congestion problem for ATM services in high density airspace, and in addition provide coverage in oceanic, remote and ...

It is currently a significant ongoing effort worldwide to develop the future Air Traffic Management (ATM) system. As part of this work, a satellite communication system may ease the congestion problem for ATM services in high density airspace, and in addition provide coverage in oceanic, remote and ...