End-to-end packet delays in LEO satellite constellations

Author

Peter, Trúchly ; Ocel, Marek

Author_Institution

Dept. of Telecommun., Slovak Univ. of Technol., Bratislava

fYear

2008

fDate

25-28 June 2008

Firstpage

515

Lastpage

518

Abstract

Satellite systems are part of the global communication system and considerable differ from ground communications networks (such as fixed, mobile, and wireless data networks) mainly in a quality of transmission links. From transmission delays point of view the low earth orbit satellite systems (from all satellite systems) can only compete with ground systems. This contribution is oriented into the analysis and comparison of selected low earth orbit satellite constellations. The satellite constellations investigated here differ in orbital plane inclination, position of the end user terminals and availability of cross-seam intersatellite links. The comparison is mainly realized based on the end-to-end transmission delays.

Keywords

delays; packet radio networks; satellite links; LEO satellite constellations; cross-seam intersatellite links; end user terminals; end-to-end packet delays; end-to-end transmission delays; global communication system; ground communications networks; ground systems; low earth orbit satellite systems; orbital plane inclination; transmission links; Artificial satellites; Availability; Cities and towns; Communication networks; Delay; Electronic mail; Global communication; Information technology; Low earth orbit satellites; Satellite constellations; LEO; inclination; packet delay; satellite constellation;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Systems, Signals and Image Processing, 2008. IWSSIP 2008. 15th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Bratislava

Print_ISBN

978-80-227-2856-0

Electronic_ISBN

978-80-227-2880-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IWSSIP.2008.4604479

Filename

4604479