Inter-Satellite Link Channel Management For Mobile Satellite Systems

Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite constellations are foreseen as appropriate alternatives to the geostationary satellite systems for providing global personal communications services (PCS). Compared to geostationary satellites, these constellations offer a significantly smaller round trip delay between earth and space segments. Furthermore, the use of inter-satellite links (ISLs) has been identified as a means to provide global connectivity in space, thereby enhancing system autonomy and flexibility, and has been retained in the design of systems like Teledesic and SkyBridge. From a network point of view, a major benefit of a ISL subnetwork in space lies in the possibility to transport long distance traffic over reliable and high capacity connections, thus forming a good base for ATM (asynchronous transfer mode) operation. With the development of the third generation (3G) and fourth generation (4G) wireless networks, ATM is regarded as one of the potential promising candidates for providing QoS guaranteed broadband telecommunication services. It is possible to integrate the mobile satellite and A TM by applying the inter/intra satellite links (ISLs) as the physical layer of WATM and considering a connection between two satellites as a virtual path connection (VPC) in ATM

Channel management for WATM mobile satellite systems

This paper presents a dynamic channel allocation scheme for wireless asynchronous transfer mode (WATM) satellite systems. Handoff schemes of WATM are utilized to deal with handoff issues in a WATM mobile satellite system. Here we investigate and simulate a dynamic channel allocation scheme for handoff in WATM mobile satellite networks, which improves the network resource utilization, by measuring the network performance in terms of new call blocking probability (NCBP) and handoff call blocking probability (HCBP). Arriving calls are given channels based on their priority and calls are subdivided into real time and non real time calls. Highest priority is given to real time handoff calls, followed by non real time handoff calls, then real time new calls and finally non real time new calls

Modelling of handover of multimedia traffic in mobile satellite communication

This paper presents the handover management in mobile satellite communications with multimedia traffic. Multimedia traffic is becoming the next hop in mobile satellite communication, due to its demand. The coverage of the satellite network knows no boundary and with the concept of the broadband satellite network, communication for multimedia and high-data rate multimedia communications can be provided. The handover initiation and execution is proposed with a queuing algorithm in the on-board processing (OBP) technique. The traffic is generated according to its nature of burstiness to represent the traffic behaviour on variation of the channels. The modelling could benefit network operators to fully conserve the frequency spectrum and to increase capacity