Several multisatellite and multispot systems have been recently proposed for provision of mobile and personal services with global coverage, adopting GEO or non-GEO (i.e., MEO, LEO) satellite constellations. The paper addresses an in-depth analysis of these constellations, evaluating both geometrical performance measures and cochannel interference levels caused by extensive frequency reuse. The geometrical analysis yields the statistics for coverage, frequency of satellite hand-overs, and link absence periods. The interference analysis is based on a general model valid for all access techniques, which is here applied to the case of FDMA. The outage probability as a function of the specification on carrier-to-interference power ratio is evaluated for four selected constellations. Several techniques are introduced for interference reduction in non-GEO systems, in which the satellites coverage areas may intersect: spot turnoff, intraorbital plane frequency division, and interorbital plane frequency division. The effects of Rice fading have also been analyzed by means of an analytic approximated method. The overall analysis allows a fair comparison between LEO, MEO, and GEO constellations.

One of the major issues for the design of ultra-wideband (UWB) receivers is the need to recover the signal energy dispersed over many multipath components, while keeping the receiver complexity low. To this aim we consider two schemes for reduced-complexity UWB Rake receivers, both of which combine a subset of the available resolved multipath components. The first method, called partial Rake (PRake), combines theirs/ arriving multipath components. The second is known as selective Rake (SRake) and combines the instantaneously strongest multipath components. We evaluate and compare the link performance of these Rake receivers in different UWB channels, whose models are based on extensive propagation measurements. We quantify the effect of the channel characteristics on the receiver performance, analyzing in particular the influence of small-scale fading statistics. We find that for dense channels the performance of the simpler PRake receiver is almost as good as that of the SRake receiver, even for a small number of fingers. In sparse channels, however, the SRake outperforms the PRake significantly. We also show that for a fixed transmitted energy there is an optimum transmission bandwidth

This paper provides analytical expressions for the time-autocorrelation function and the Doppler spectrum in a mobile radio channel in the presence of three-dimensional (3-D) multipath scattering, Mathematical modeling of the transmission channel is based on the assumption of wide-sense stationary (WSS) scattering, This paper deals with the case of a mobile-to-mobile radio link and derives formulas for the mobile-to-radiobase link as a special case, The Doppler spectrum examples provided are typical when assuming mobile terminal(s) located in densely built-up urban areas and simple dipole terminal antenna(s). Furthermore, the Doppler spectrum for transmission between a nongeostationary satellite and a mobile terminal located on the ground is analyzed, If different antenna patterns are to be considered and detailed knowledge is available on the multipath distribution, realistic Doppler spectra may be calculated using the approach presented in this paper