Directional Beams

KAUST Research Develops Directional-Beam Analysis Framework to Guide HAPS Network Design

2 min read · Sun, Aug 23 2026

HAPSs Directional Beams Sphetical Stochastic Geometry Coverage Probability Non-Terrestrial Networks

High-altitude platform stations (HAPS) can extend wireless service from the stratosphere, but planning a large deployment requires more than estimating one strong air-to-ground connection. As platform and user populations grow, designers must also account for many co-channel interferers, Earth curvature and the directions in which antennas point. That combination makes direct network simulation increasingly demanding: the paper notes that the number of serving and interference links can grow quadratically with the number of HAPS. Zhengying Lou, Baha Eddine Youcef Belmekki and Mohamed-Slim