Feeders-TDMA: a distributed-control algorithm for satellite channel capacity assignment in a mixed traffic and faded environment

✍ Scribed by Celandroni, Nedo ;Ferro, Erina ;Potortì, Francesco

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1997
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 178 KB
• Volume: 15
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0737-2884
• DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1099-1247(199707/08)15:4<185::aid-sat579>3.0.co;2-l

✦ Synopsis

This paper presents Faded Environments Effective Distributed Engineering Redundant Signalling (FEEDERS), an access scheme for sharing, in time division multiple access (TDMA) mode, the capacity of a satellite channel among a number of stations, on the basis of user demand. This scheme and its companion Distributed Allocation with Request In Fixed Slots (DRIFS), result from a study carried out by the authors on distributed-control protocols for geostationary satellite access. Both protocols derive from the Fifo Ordered Demand Assignment/Information Bit Energy Adapter (FODA/IBEA) centralized-control system and have the same features. The distributed technique to compute the capacity allocation adopted by FEEDERS improves some performance in FODA/IBEA, but raises a problem about system stability. Techniques to solve this problem are presented, together with system performance. A comparison is also made with the FODA/IBEA system.