Low Earth orbit satellite technology for PCS

Author

Cloutier, Paul N. ; Swan, Peter A.

Author_Institution

Motorola Inc., McLean, VA, USA

fYear

1992

fDate

11-14 Oct 1992

Firstpage

278

Abstract

The authors examine today´s major issues in terrestrial personal communication systems (PCS) and show the emerging technologies necessary for global PCS. It is suggested that, with the development of existing technologies and the spectrum allocations, the Iridium system of low Earth orbit satellites will revolutionize PCS to make telecommunications a global phenomenon. The Iridium system will allow high-user-density wireless service of up to 1.6 million subscribers by the year 2000, consumer digital wireless service that is truly portable and easy to use, one-way messaging and paging services, and data, graphics and compressed voice

Keywords

personal communication networks; satellite relay systems; Iridium system; LEO; PCS; compressed voice; data; digital wireless service; graphics; low Earth orbit satellites; messaging services; paging services; personal communication systems; spectrum allocations; Artificial satellites; Clothing; Communications technology; Costs; Graphics; Low earth orbit satellites; Paging strategies; Personal communication networks; Space technology; Telephony;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Military Communications Conference, 1992. MILCOM '92, Conference Record. Communications - Fusing Command, Control and Intelligence., IEEE

Conference_Location

San Diego, CA

Print_ISBN

0-7803-0585-X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MILCOM.1992.244073

Filename

244073