Examination of the data rate obtainable with low‐gain non‐tracking antenna applied to user terminal used for mobile communications and broadcasting services provided by quasi‐zenithal satellites

Link budgets between the mobile user terminal and a feeder link station (2‐m‐diameter antenna) through the quasi‐zenithal satellite system (QZSS) (7‐m‐diameter antenna for Tx, 5‐m‐diameter antenna for Rx) under the power flux density (PFD) limit were calculated for the Ka‐ and Ku‐band. The PFD limit for non‐geostationary satellites is applied for frequency sharing between QZSS and geostationary satellites. The maximum data rate in the Ka‐band was 1.7 times higher than in the Ku‐band in the forward link, while the maximum data rate at Ku‐band is nine times higher than that in the Ka‐band in the return link when the transmit power derived from the regulations of the PFD is applied. And it is more than three times higher than that in the Ka‐band when transmit power is fixed to 2W. In the forward link, maximum data rates are 149 kbps in the Ka‐band and 86 kbps in the Ku‐band when the user terminal antenna is non‐tracking (gain at the satellite direction is 7.1 dBi) and the frequency bandwidth per beam is 30 MHz. Required bandwidth per channel for a certain data rate is large, e.g. in Ka‐band, 20.9 MHz for 64 kbps, 125 MHz for 384 kbps, and 326 MHz for 1 Mbps. In the return link, the maximum data rates are 44 kbps in the Ku‐band and 13.6 kbps in the Ka‐band when the user terminal antenna gain in the satellite direction is 7.1 dBi and transmit power is 2 W. Copyright © 2005 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Adaptive Control of Satellite EIRP to Reduce Outage Caused by Fading

The output EIRP or the available bandwidth of a satellite in general limits the amount of traffic which can be handled by SATCOM systems. As the frequency congestion drives future SATCOM systems to higher frequencies, the former constraint will be the more important one because of the severe fades caused by precipitation. Rather than using fixed fade margins, the link power can be dynamically allocated from a common pool of satellite EIRP. By judicious, adaptive allocation of the satellite EIRP among the various users, the traffic supported can be maximized while maintaining the link availability. This paper reports techniques and statistical results of four different ways of allocating the EIRP. By using adaptive centralized control of the terminals transmit power and a variable satellite transmit antenna adaptively controlled by ground commands to compensate for link fades, most efficient use of the satellite EIRP is made. The performance of this technique is derived and compared with others of less complexity and that of a system with fixed satellite antenna and transmit power levels.     

Doppler as a new dimension for multiple access in LEO satellite systems

The problem of flow control for little LEO satellite communications systems is studied. In these systems the satellite functions as a ‘bent pipe’ transponder for messaging between small terminals and a command and data acquisition (CDA) earth station. A novel scheme for averting traffic overflow on the inbound channel (from terminal to CDA), which we call ‘Doppler-based multiple access’ (DBMA), is introduced. In DBMA the CDA specifies a subset of the visibility footprint as a region of eligibility (ROE). Only terminals located in the ROE are permitted to transmit. By varying the size and location of the ROE, effective flow control on the inbound channel is achieved. The ROEs are specified in terms of parameters of the Doppler frequency shift versus time curve observed at terminals on the outbound downlink channel (from satellite to terminal). The effectiveness and elegance of the DBMA protocol are illustrated through computer simulation. © 1997 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Stepped-reflector antenna for dual-band multiple beam Satellite communications payloads

A novel stepped-reflector antenna (SRA) suitable for dual-band multiple beam satellite payloads is introduced in this paper. The SRA system produces "flat-top" radiation patterns for receive beams and highly efficient Gaussian patterns for transmit beams over a geographic coverage region as seen by the geo-synchronous satellite. It combines the reflector improvements through the use of SRA with the feed horn advancements through the use of dual-band "high-efficiency horns" in order to realize an efficient multiple beam antenna (MBA) system supporting both downlink transmit and uplink receive signals of communication satellites. It is shown that the SRA provides a congruent set of spot beams on ground for both transmit and receive frequencies with the benefits of significantly improved edge-of-coverage gain, improved co-polar isolation among beams that re-use the same frequency channels, receive beam patterns that are less sensitive to satellite pointing error, and reduced number of reflector antennas when compared to conventional MBAs.     

Ranging and Data Transmission Using Digital Encoded FM-"Chirp" Surface Acoustic Wave Filters

A digital encoded multislope chirp modem/demodem unit has been implemented using two 3-port surface acoustic wave filters. Each filter operating at a 30-MHz center frequency provides either positive or negative slopes as digital 1's or 0's with a time-bandwidth product of 280, an unweighed bandwidth of 5.6 MHz, and a time dispersion of 50 /spl mu/S.The modems were used to calibrate and compare the operational performance of the conventions multitone CW ranging system with a multislope chirp ranging system. Range measurements and range-rate observations were made to a synchronous satellite with both systems using a ground communication satellite terminal. Both ranging techniques provided accuracies well within the predictable satellite range of 20 000 nmi; the multitone system provided a theoretical range resolution of 1 m, and the chirp system 0.4 m. Data transmission was also accomplished, using 12-bit binary code at a 1.25-Mbit rate. The significant advantage to be noted with the chirp system is the ability to obtain continuous range data from the satellite repeater simultaneously while other modes of information are being transmitted, and to combine the ranging and data-link transmission on a time-order basis using digital encoded chirp sequences. The chirp system was found the more desirable technique, since it provides a more direct range measurement, with minimal calibration requirements, and provided greater processing gain with relative ease and reliability. The data transmission at low data rates provided little deterioration in theoretical compressive gain. However, at the higher data rate a greater loss was encountered due to power sharing of the overlapping chirp coded carriers in the limiting satellite.     

卫星转发器增益衰减对转发式卫星导航通信系统入站链路性能影响分析

在卫星通信系统中,卫星是一个很重要的环节,卫星转发器的参数在一定程度上决定着整个系统的性能.转发式卫星导航系统是一个导航通信一体化的系统,通信系统中的微小卫星终端由于其发射天线波束宽,从邻星干扰方面考虑,远区卫星还处在微小卫星终端的主瓣内,因此发射功率受到了限制,是一个很明显的上行功率受限的系统.为了缓解对发射终端的压力,文中对卫星转发器的增益表减档对整个通信系统的性能影响进行了分析,得到的结果显示,在转发器增益衰减档减小时,整个系统的性能可以得到提高,试验结果也表明,对于微小卫星终端系统,卫星转发器的增益档设置在2dB左右比较适宜.     

Self‐Interference Cancellation for Shared Band Transmission in Nonlinear Satellite Communication Channels

For efficient spectral utilization of satellite channels, a shared band transmission technique is introduced in this paper. A satellite transmits multiple received signals from a gateway and terminal in the common frequency band by superimposing the signals. To improve the power efficiency as well as the spectral efficiency, a travelling wave tube amplifier in the satellite should operate near the saturation level. This causes a nonlinear distortion of the superimposed transmit signal. Without mitigating this nonlinear effect, the self‐interference cannot be properly cancelled and the desired signal cannot be demodulated. Therefore, an adaptive compensation scheme for nonlinearity is herein proposed with the proper operation scenario. It is shown through simulations that the proposed shared band transmission approach with nonlinear compensation and self‐interference cancellation can achieve an acceptable system performance in nonlinear satellite channels.     

基于无人机中继的星地认知网络波束成形算法

针对基于无人机中继的星地认知网络,提出了两种波束成形（beamforming, BF）算法,通过对各种干扰进行抑制,实现系统间的频谱共享。具体而言,在基于无人机中继的卫星网络作为次级网络、地面网络作为主网络的情况下,以无人机最大发射功率和主用户所受干扰为约束条件,建立次级用户信干噪比最大化准则的优化问题;接下来在已知次级用户统计信道状态信息的条件下,提出一种基于迭代的BF算法对优化问题进行求解;更进一步,为了降低迭代算法的实现复杂度,提出了一种基于迫零的BF算法。最后,计算机仿真验证了所提两种波束成形方案的正确性与有效性。     

A Comparison of Time-Sharing, DPC, and Beamforming for MIMO Broadcast Channels With Many Users

In this letter, we derive the scaling laws of the sum rate for fading multiple-input multiple-output Gaussian broadcast channels using time sharing to the strongest user, dirty-paper coding (DPC), and beamforming, when the number of users (receivers) n is large. Throughout the letter, we assume a fix average transmit power and consider a block-fading Rayleigh channel. First, we show that for a system with M transmit antennas and users equipped with N antennas, the sum rate scales like MloglognN for DPC, and beamforming when M is fixed and for any N (either growing to infinity or not). On the other hand, when both M and N are fixed, the sum rate of time sharing to the strongest user scales like min(M,N)loglogn. Therefore, the asymptotic gain of DPC over time sharing for the sum rate is (M/min(M,N)) when M and N are fixed. It is also shown that if M grows as logn, the sum rate of DPC and beamforming will grow linearly in M, but with different constant multiplicative factors. In this region, the sum-rate capacity of time -sharing scales like Nloglogn     

移动卫星通信车载站若干关键技术讨论

由于移动卫星通信系统中的车载站在通信过程中是运动的,因此存在卫星功率有限、传输高速业务与移动站低天线增益之间的矛盾;系统有时是在非高斯信道中工作的,电波传播情况复杂;地面终端的天线时刻对准所使用的卫星。对如何利用有限的卫星功率条件,在地面终端的快速移动中,实时传输宽带多媒体业务,涉及卫星的带宽和功率、移动终端能力、天线伺服跟踪等相关问题进行了讨论,给出了设计原则和设计思路。     

卫星干扰处理技术综述

为了应对新的卫星干扰形势并针对卫星干扰问题提出有效的解决方法,研究了卫星干扰处理的新技术和策略,总结了卫星干扰源定位技术及其发展趋势,提出利用无人机辅助查找地面干扰源的技术,介绍了采用载波标识(CID)标准快速确定卫星干扰源的方法,给出了采用终端设备认证和数据共享策略解决干扰的实施方法.研究表明,多方联合、数据共享是解决卫星干扰问题的有效方法.     

Optimum Downlink Power Control of a DS-CDMA System via Convex Programming

An optimum downlink power control that maximizes the user-capacity of a Direct Sequence-Code Division Multiple Access (DS-CDMA) cellular system is proposed based on a convex programming method. First, the downlink beamforming weights for the base-station antenna-array are designed based on the maximum Signal-Interference-Ratio (SIR) criterion. Then by optimizing the downlink power subject to a fixed total transmit power constraint, we further increase the Signal-Interference-Noise-Ratio (SINR) at the mobile terminal, thus increasing the capacity of the system. With the same methodology, we can also minimize the required transmit power while satisfying the SINR threshold constraints. Additionally, a robust downlink power control approach for mitigating the performance degradation due to channel estimates error is also proposed. Computer simulations are given to demonstrate the improvement of downlink capacity, received SINR, robustness, and the minimization of the required transmit power for a DS-CDMA system with antenna-array at the base-station.     

Satellite communications relay system using a retrodirective space antenna

A system has been developed for relaying messages via a satellite between earth points. In this system, messages transmitted to a satellite modulate a retrodirective antenna. Earth stations receive messages by irradiating the satellite antenna. Methods of modulating the retrodirective array are discussed with emphasis on methods to facilitate communications among several ground stations. There are advantages in spectrum usage and sharing with surface facilities. System design parameters are presented. Minimal power is required in the satellite as compared to the active communications satellites. Extremely high reliability is inherent in the design of the satellite electronic system, which can be made entirely from solid-state components.     

DESIGN OF MULTIBEAM SATELLITE COMMUNICATIONS NETWORKS REALIZED BY SS/FDMA

In the subchannel switched frequency-division multiple access (SS/FDMA) system, each transponder bandwidth is subdivided into several narrow bands named ‘subchannels’, and interbeam connections are established on a subchannel by subchannel basis. The SS/FDMA system makes it possible to construct a satellite communications network among multiple beams by using only one transponder per beam. This paper presents systematic design methods for such networks. First, a method to determine transmission parameters of the network, such as transmit power levels of respective carriers, is described. Objectives of the design method are to maximize the system capacity, and to minimize the average transmit power for one carrier. Results of example calculations are also presented for power-limited and bandwidth-limited networks. Next, a method to determine the number of subchannels is described for bandwidth-limited networks, which is an important parameter affecting the system capacity of the bandwidth-limited networks. Results of an example calculation taking account of uniform and non-uniform traffic distribution patterns are also presented.     

Satellite constellation design for 5G wireless networks of mobile communications

Satellite constellation design plays an important role in satellite networks. Network constellation system design can affect the effectiveness of current improvements of the communications link and the management of the entire network. The power requirement of the mobile stations and ground stations is very high in a geostationary Earth orbit communication system, which means the terrestrial terminal is hard to be made handheld for fifth generation mobile communications. The emergence of nongeostationary orbit satellites such as low Earth orbit satellites greatly compensates for the disadvantage of geostationary Earth orbit satellites. Based on the classical constellation design method, the orthogonal circular orbit constellation is proposed. The design objectives considered here are the following: global Earth coverage by low Earth orbit satellites, the duration of continuously covering one mobile station by one satellite is more than 9.57 min, the access satellite link duration time of the mobile station is more than 4.79 min, and the number of satellites and orbits is to be minimum.     

Performance comparisons for adaptive LEO satellite links

This paper considers the potential to achieve improved throughput in time‐varying satellite links which have flexibility in information bit rate and/or transmit power. We assume that other parameters of the link budget such as antenna gains and operating frequency are fixed. Simple results are derived, which illustrate what improvements in data throughput or power consumption are possible under two low‐earth orbit scenarios: inter‐satellite links and satellite to ground communications. Copyright © 2006 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

The search for optimized shaping filters suitable for vsat systems

The satellite communications industry has seen the emergence of VSAT (very small aperture terminal) systems with the promise of high growth in the next decade. The system design of the VSAT ground station has generally followed traditional satellite communication system design, namely featuring data transmission using QPSK (quadrature phase shift keying) or BPSK (binary phase shift keying) and 50 per cent raised cosine shaping filters with quasilinear transmission. Transmitter power is strictly limited and is at a premium for the VSAT transmitter which usually consists of a non-linear solid-state power amplifier (SSPA). Consequently it is important to operate the SSPA so that the maximum power is obtained, which means that the SSPA should be operated close to its saturation point. In so doing considerable distortion can be introduced, which leads to intersymbol interference (ISI) in the receiver and an associated degradation in error rate. Although constant envelope BPSK or QPSK solves the intersymbol interference problem and enables operation at the saturating point of the SSPA, the sinx/x spectral shape has unacceptable sidelobe levels. This paper gives results of a search for a pulse shaping filter characteristic that is bandlimited and yet has improved performance over the traditional root 50 per cent cosine roll-off filter when used in a VSAT ground station with a SSPA. The performance improvement due to improved shaping filtering is maintained over a range of output levels of the SSPA. Performance evaluation results using computer simulation are presented.     

基于Q-Learning算法的毫微微小区功率控制算法

该文研究macro-femto异构蜂窝网络中移动用户的功率控制问题,首先建立了以最小接收信号信干噪比为约束条件,最大化毫微微小区的总能效为目标的优化模型;然后提出了基于Q-Learning算法的毫微微小区集中式功率控制(PCQL)算法,该算法基于强化学习,能在没有准确信道状态信息的情况下,实现对小区内所有用户终端的发射功率统一调整。仿真结果表明该算法能实现对用户终端的功率有效控制,提升系统能效。     

A comparison of frequency-division systems to code-division systems in overloaded channels

In this paper, a frequency-division counterpart of joint power control and sequence design problem for code- division multiple-access (CDMA) systems is solved. Total transmit and receive power minimizations are considered for frequency- division multiplexing (FDM) and frequency-division multiple- access (FDMA) communications over overloaded channels. After the definition of channel overloading for CDMA systems is extended to the frequency-division systems, the user admissibility is characterized by a necessary and sufficient condition for the existence of the optimal solution under unequal signal-to- interference-plus-noise ratio constraints at the output of linear receivers and asymmetric data transmission rate constraints among users. The optimal signal power, bandwidth, transmit waveform, and receive waveform are derived for each user as the decision parameters of the optimization problem. It is shown that, if this solution is applied for the uplink users to minimize the total receive power, the optimal FDMA system performs the same as the optimal CDMA system. It is also shown that, if this solution is applied for the downlink users to minimize the total transmit power, the optimal FDM system always outperforms the code-division system that minimizes the extended total squared correlation. Numerical results suggest that the optimal FDM system and the optimal downlink code-division system achieve the same performance when the total transmit power is minimized.     

感知频谱共享下的多天线功率优化分配算法研究

本文构建了一种在感知结果下具有多天线次用户的频谱共享模型,该模型由单入单出主用户对和多入单出认知用户对构成。当认知用户感知到主用户占用信道时,主用户向认知用户发送Message信息,使得认知用户发射端能够得知主用户对干扰总功率的限制要求,通过自适应地调整认知用户发射机的发射功率,以保证其对主用户不造成有害干扰;如果主用户未占用信道,认知用户立刻以最大发射功率占用信道。并分别在主用户存在和不存在两种情况下,优化认知用户发射机各天线的发射功率来最大化系统总的数据传输率。最后,通过数值仿真来验证推导出的功率分配策略,并对其进行分析和讨论。仿真结果表明:相比于机会频谱接入（Opportunistic Spectrum Access, OSA）和基于感知的频谱共享（Sensing-based spectrum sensing）模式,推导的功率分配策略在提出的模型中可以获得更高的信息传输率。