Title
Multi-layer beam architecture in mobile satellite communications
Abstract
Since satellite communications have developed towards personal and mobile communication, they become indispensable portions in global communications. Transmission power and available frequency band are restricted by the satellite inherent characteristic. So, a new resource management strategy is required for satellite communications. Spot beam technique is widely adopted in satellite systems, building a overlapped beams architecture (OBA), with its frequency reuse just as in terrestrial cellulars, in which entire spectrum is orthogonally assigned to adjacent beams, leading to a relatively low spectrum utilization. In this paper, a new multi-layer beam architecture (MBA) is proposed. We analyze the system performance by calculating global reuse factor, system maximum achievable rate and blocking probability. Numerical results suggest that MBA outperforms the original OBA in the metrics above, making better utilization of frequency spectrum.
Year
DOI
Venue
2011
10.1109/ChinaCom.2011.6158323
CHINACOM
DocType
Volume
Issue
Conference
null
null
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
1
0.39
2
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Fei Yang110.39
Meiyu Huang2253.59
Sihai Zhang36319.50
Wuyang Zhou422647.51