[en] Gateway Diversity ; Rain Attenuation ; Satellite Communication ; N +P scheme ; Feeder Link ; Q/V Band
[en] Design of high bandwidth and reliable feeder links is central towards provisioning new services on the user link of a multibeam satellite communication (SatCom) system. Towards this, utilization of the Q/V band and an exploitation of multiple gateways (GW) as a transmit diversity measure for overcoming severe propagation effects are being considered. In this context, this contribution deals with the design of a feeder link comprising N + P GWs (N active and P redundant GWs). Towards provisioning the desired availability, a novel switching scheme is analysed and practical aspects such as prediction based switching and switching rate are discussed. Unlike most relevant works, a dynamic rain attenuation model is used to derive analytically average outage probability in the fundamental 1 + 1 gateway case. Building on this result, an analysis for the N +P scenario leading to a quantification of the endtoend performance is provided. This analysis aids system sizing by illustrating the interplay between the number of active and redundant gateways on the chosen metrics : average outage and average switching rate.
Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust (SnT)
Fonds National de la Recherche - FnR
Transmission and Reception Techniques for Smart Gateways in Next Generation Satellite Systems
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This work was supported by the National Research Fund, Luxembourg under AFR grant for Ph.D. project (Reference 5779106) on “Transmission and Reception Techniques for Smart Gateways in Next Generation Satellite Systems”.
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