Traffic simulator for LEO and ICO type mobile satellite networks

Author

Dinis, Manuel ; Tavares, Pedro ; Ferreira, José ; Santos, Victor

Author_Institution

Portugal Telecom, Aveiro, Portugal

Volume

2

fYear

1998

fDate

18-21 May 1998

Firstpage

1512

Abstract

A traffic simulator is presented along with various simulation results for an ICO and LEO type constellations. The simulator permits the calculation of the traffic at the satellite footprint and spotbeam level in various instances of the satellites trajectory. By using these traffic simulation results as input to a satellite resource management simulator, the fixed channel allocation (FCA) and the dynamic channel allocation (DCA) techniques were evaluated. Simulations results are presented for the various parameters in both systems

Keywords

cellular radio; channel allocation; digital simulation; mobile satellite communication; telecommunication computing; telecommunication network management; telecommunication traffic; C language; DCA; FCA; ICO; LEO; cellular system; dynamic channel allocation; fixed channel allocation; low Earth orbit; mobile satellite networks; satellite constellations; satellite footprint; satellite resource management simulator; satellite trajectory; simulation results; spotbeam; system parameters; traffic simulator; Artificial satellites; Cellular networks; Economic forecasting; Investments; Low earth orbit satellites; Mobile communication; Resource management; Satellite constellations; Telecommunication traffic; Traffic control;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Vehicular Technology Conference, 1998. VTC 98. 48th IEEE

Conference_Location

Ottawa, Ont.

ISSN

1090-3038

Print_ISBN

0-7803-4320-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/VETEC.1998.686539

Filename

686539