Design consideration in the MSAT mobile telephone system setup channel

MSAT is a mobile communication satellite intended to offer mobile radio and mobile telephone service (MTS) in the 800 MHz band. Although the MTS, in particular, is very similar in organization to terrestrial cellular system, there are unavoidable differences in both the signal and traffic environments. This paper examines the effect of the mobile satellite environment on the performance of the MTS call setup channel. In addition the paper presents new results on the effect of random FM on a Manchester coded data signal, and on the performance of a cellular-like data format in the presence of Rice fading.