Performance Analysis of Distributed Auxiliary Radio Telescopes Under Shared Spectrum Access Paradigm and Cooling Power Constraint

A conflict of the spectrum rights and needs between active wireless communication systems and passive radio astronomy systems (RASs) has become substantially greater due to the phenomenal expansion of wireless communications and increased interest in RAS observation. For sustainable growth and coexistence of cellular wireless communications (CWC) and RAS, a coordinated shared spectrum access paradigm was recently introduced. Embracing such paradigm, this paper proposes a distributed auxiliary radio telescope (DART) system which can geographically and spectrally coexist with CWC while offering additional capability or performance enhancement to RAS. Theoretical performance analysis of the DART system with different quantization resolutions is presented, and approximate closed-form expressions are obtained. Adaptation of cooling power of DART receivers according to the time-varying ambient temperature is also proposed. Furthermore, an analytical expression for the DART system parameters under the shared spectrum access paradigm and cooling power constraint to achieve the same performance as the existing single-dish RAS with a radio quiet zone is developed to provide guidance in the DART system design. The numerical and simulation results illustrate feasibility and potentials of the proposed DART system.