Investigation of a rural telecommunication system using VSAT technology in Malaysia

Author

Abdullah, Mohammad Arif ; Husni, Emir Mauludi ; Hassan, Syed Idris Syed

Author_Institution

Sch. of Aerosp. Eng., Universiti Sains Malaysia, Penang, Malaysia

Volume

3

fYear

2003

fDate

21-24 Sept. 2003

Firstpage

883

Abstract

This study investigates the VSAT network that is applied to rural telecommunication network. The VSAT network is planned based on telecommunication demand as obtained from the survey. The network uses Measat-1 satellite and existing hub of Maxis located at Shah Alani. Selangor. The network is also based on a star network using access of FDMA-MCPC inbound and a TDM outbound channels. To decide antenna diameter and HPA power of antenna, the satellite link budget is calculated based on the service requirement of BER at 10^-7, 64 kbps inbound information bit rate and BPSK modulation techniques. Rain attenuation is calculated by using the local measured rain rate with 0.01% time of the year that is exceeding 129 mm/h [Hassan, 2002].

Keywords

VSAT networks; error statistics; frequency division multiple access; network topology; phase shift keying; rain; telecommunication channels; telecommunication network planning; time division multiplexing; 64 kbit/s; BER; BPSK modulation techniques; Malaysia; VSAT technology; antennas; bit error rate; frequency division multiple access; phase shift keying; rain attenuation; rural telecommunication system; satellite link budget; star-shaped network; time division multiplexing; very small aperture terminal; Aerospace engineering; Attenuation; Costs; Data analysis; Information technology; Rain; Satellite antennas; Satellite communication; Telecommunication services; Time division multiplexing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Communications, 2003. APCC 2003. The 9th Asia-Pacific Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8114-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/APCC.2003.1274223

Filename

1274223