Communication Capacity and Quality Enhancement Using a Two-Layered Adaptive Resource Allocation Scheme for Multi-Beam Mobile Satellite Communication Systems

Katsuya NAKAHIRA
Kiyoshi KOBAYASHI
Masazumi UEBA

Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences   Vol.E89-A    No.7    pp.1930-1939
Publication Date: 2006/07/01
Online ISSN: 1745-1337
DOI: 10.1093/ietfec/e89-a.7.1930
Print ISSN: 0916-8508
Type of Manuscript: Special Section PAPER (Special Section on Multi-dimensional Mobile Information Networks)
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Keyword: 
mobile satellite communication,  multi beam,  resource allocation,  capacity enhancement,  QoS,  optimization,  

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Summary: 
To obtain large capacity, high quality mobile satellite communication systems in the future, we must use a multi-beam that can cope with extremely high levels of frequency reuse. This paper describes a novel resource allocation algorithm for multi-beam satellite communication systems that can dynamically adapt to maximum communication capacity without compromising quality. The algorithm combines two resource allocation schemes that enable it to contend with the ever-changing user distribution and inter-beam interference conditions. The first scheme optimizes the resources amongst beams. To minimize interference, the optimal constraint conditions are clarified when all clusters share and occupy the same bandwidth completely. These constraints are used in the optimization algorithm. The second scheme manages the various required resources and adapts them to the beam gain and interference levels at various user locations within a single beam. We propose a fixed power adaptive modulation scheme to obtain stable communications. This two-layered scheme can satisfactorily allocate multi-beam satellite resources to contend with the increasing communication capacity and still improve the quality.

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