Title
Traffic-based dynamic beam coverage adjustment in satellite mobile communication
Abstract
Current satellite coverage architectures generally assumes uniform traffic distribution among all beams, giving rise to uniform beam coverage pattern along with equal beam bandwidth allocation. However, the uniform coverage is not suitable for the unbalanced traffic scenarios, e.g. the metropolis region and emergency communication during disaster, which is characterized by the fact that there is single hot spot serving the majority of users, while the surrounding beams carry relatively light traffic. In this paper, we propose a dynamic coverage adjustment scheme that changes beam size and resource allocation according to the spatial distribution of user traffic. More resource is offered to the beam covering the hot spot, whereas basic coverage is maintained for the surrounding area. Further, we introduce the resource allocation policy and implement issues for proposal realization. Numeric results show considerable performance enhancement is brought by our scheme under diverse user distributions, especially for low earth orbit (LEO) satellite systems.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.1109/WCSP.2014.6992014
WCSP
Keywords
DocType
Citations 
mobile satellite communication,satellite mobile communication,spatial traffic distribution,uniform beam coverage pattern,uniform traffic distribution,LEO satellite system,resource allocation,low earth orbit satellite system,equal beam bandwidth allocation,metropolis region,traffic-based dynamic beam coverage adjustment scheme,telecommunication traffic,emergency communication
Conference
2
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.38
0
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Cen Qian120.38
Sihai Zhang26319.50
Wuyang Zhou322647.51