Comparative study of switching methods for the on-board processor in a mobile satellite communications system
✍ Scribed by Taira, Shinichi ;Takeda, Osamu ;Otsu, Yuichi ;Katagiri, Hideki
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1998
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 118 KB
- Volume
- 16
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0737-2884
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✦ Synopsis
An on-board processor makes efficient use of the channel capacities in a satellite communications system employing multibeam technology, and an on-board processor has been developed for the Engineering Test Satellite VIII (ETS-VIII), which is the experimental satellite for a multibeam mobile satellite communications system. The multicarrier time division multiple access (MC-TDMA) system used in this communications system, however, sometimes causes internal congestion in the on-board processor. This paper describes the results of computer simulation studies of the traffic capacity obtained using three baseband switching methods and also describes the results of studies of the on-board processor design for each of the methods. The computer simulation results indicate that the probability of internal congestion due to the TDMA system is very small when the simultaneous-slot switching method is used, and the design study results reveal that an on-board processor using the simultaneousslot switching method will be compact and lightweight and will consume little power.