Method and apparatus for efficient data transmissions in half-duplex communication systems with large propagation delays

    公开(公告)号:US10693574B2

    公开(公告)日:2020-06-23

    申请号:US15190601

    申请日:2016-06-23

    摘要: Methods and apparatus for efficient transmission of data by half-duplex transceivers in satellite communication systems are provided. Time reference for the return link is skewed or time-lagged relative to the time reference for the forward link to reduce the amount of guard time required to separate return link transmission from forward link reception by the half-duplex transceiver of a user terminal. The guard time is determined based on a maximum differential round-trip propagation delay and transition times of the half-duplexer transceiver to switch between transmit and receive modes. In a satellite communication system in which a large number of active user terminals are present in a beam coverage, random time offsets are applied to spread approximately equal traffic loads across the time offsets.

    METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MULTIPLEXING HYBRID SATELLITE CONSTELLATIONS

    公开(公告)号:US20180376392A1

    公开(公告)日:2018-12-27

    申请号:US16012613

    申请日:2018-06-19

    IPC分类号: H04W36/08 H04J3/00

    摘要: A method and apparatus for operating a satellite system including different satellites that may belong to different types of satellite constellations. In some implementations, the satellite system may include a LEO satellite constellation and one or more non-LEO satellite constellations that can be used to increase the forward link capacity of the LEO satellite constellation, for example, by allowing an LEO satellite to offload at least some of its forward link traffic to one of the non-LEO satellites. The user terminals can dynamically switch forward link communications between a LEO satellite and a non-LEO satellite while maintaining a return link connection with the LEO satellite.

    EPFD coverage for NGSO satellites
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    发明授权
    EPFD coverage for NGSO satellites 有权
    NGF卫星的EPFD覆盖

    公开(公告)号:US09585150B2

    公开(公告)日:2017-02-28

    申请号:US14864791

    申请日:2015-09-24

    摘要: A method and apparatus for operating one or more satellites in a non-geosynchronous orbit (NGSO) satellite constellation are disclosed. In some aspects, a coverage area on Earth for a first beam transmitted from a first satellite in the NGSO satellite constellation may be determined, a cone may be projected onto a first region of the beam coverage area, a second region of the beam coverage area may be defined as including portions of the beam coverage area lying outside the first region, and a minimum arc angle for each of a plurality of points within the first region but not the second region of the beam coverage area may be determined.

    摘要翻译: 公开了一种在非地球同步轨道(NGSO)卫星星座中操作一个或多个卫星的方法和装置。 在一些方面中,可以确定从NGSO卫星星座中的第一卫星发送的用于第一波束的地球上的覆盖区域,锥体可投影到波束覆盖区域的第一区域,波束覆盖区域的第二区域 可以被定义为包括位于第一区域之外的波束覆盖区域的部分,并且可以确定波束覆盖区域的第一区域内但不是波束覆盖区域的第二区域中的多个点中的每一个点的最小弧角。

    SCHEDULING FOR LOW-DENSITY PARITY-CHECK CODES

    公开(公告)号:US20190305882A1

    公开(公告)日:2019-10-03

    申请号:US16366997

    申请日:2019-03-27

    IPC分类号: H04L1/00 H03M13/11

    摘要: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. Efficient low-density parity-check (LDPC) scheduling of layered decoding may include receiving a message encoded as an LDPC code that includes a number of check nodes and a number of bit nodes, applying a first number of decoding iterations to decoding the message, applying a second number of decoding iterations to decoding the message after the first number of decoding iterations are applied, and decoding the message through completion of both the first number of decoding iterations and the second number of decoding iterations. In some cases, only a portion of the number of check nodes is decoded during each of the first number of decoding iterations and all of the number of check nodes are decoded during each of the second number of decoding iterations.

    METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MULTIPLEXING HYBRID SATELLITE CONSTELLATIONS

    公开(公告)号:US20180376393A1

    公开(公告)日:2018-12-27

    申请号:US16012639

    申请日:2018-06-19

    摘要: A method and apparatus for operating a satellite system including different satellites that may belong to different types of satellite constellations. In some implementations, the satellite system may include a LEO satellite constellation and one or more non-LEO satellite constellations that can be used to increase the forward link capacity of the LEO satellite constellation, for example, by allowing an LEO satellite to offload at least some of its forward link traffic to one of the non-LEO satellites. The user terminals can dynamically switch forward link communications between a LEO satellite and a non-LEO satellite while maintaining a return link connection with the LEO satellite.