4-G Systems: High Speed Satellite Mobile Communications
4-G Systems: High Speed Satellite Mobile Communications
INTRODUCTION:
Satellite mobile communication has gained enormous attentions in the wake of third generation (3G) and fourth-generation (4G) wireless communications systems and their challenges.
Space way system provides downlink transmission rates of up to 100 Mb/s, and a total capacity of up to 4.4 Gb/s.
Downlink requires more resources than uplink-mainly in terms of bandwidth, transmission rate and power. This is because of the asymmetric nature of the traffics and applications between the two links. Uplink will require much smaller capacity and data rates as users will need to upload relatively small amounts of datasuch as browsing requests, e-mail messages, basic user information (e.g., user ID and account code), etc.
The problems
Integration with other terrestrial networks High data rate applications flexibility
Total degradation performance for different 16QAM circular constellations in the presence of a nonlinear amplifier.
Performance of different 16-QAM circular constellations in the presence of a nonlinear amplifier, with and without predistortion.
coding
It is a systematic approach for the replacement of the original information symbol sequence by a sequence of code symbols, in such a way as to permit its reconstruction.
channel coding improves the power efficiency of a transmission scheme at the expense of spectral efficiency
Other features
FUTURE SATELLITE SYSTEMS: ARCHITECTURES, QOS AND RESOURCE MANAGEMENT, AND CROSSLAYER DESIGN
In the 4G system, the trend is toward global information networks offering flexible multimedia information services to users on demand, anywhere, anytime Broadband satellite links will also be used as the backbone in the global network, providing ubiquitous multimedia and high-speed data applications
Broadband satellite architectures may be based on ATM with sophisticated OBP, OBS, and inter-satellite links (ISLs), while others employ simple bent-pipe transponder relays The system design choices depend on factors including coverage, cost, user service, and traffic demands
Future Trends
The use of even higher frequencies will be increasingly common in the future broadband satellite system, as available spectra becomes scarcer
Higher frequencies will then enable further use of smaller terminals and, potentially, greater mobility
CONCLUSION
The paper has given an overview of the technologies and challenges of high-speed satellite mobile communications
Different technological advances in the field of satellite mobile communications have been presented in the light of future 4G system requirements
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