Resource allocation and scheduling for communication satellites with advanced transmission antennas

For multimedia and other data services over satellite networks, the efficient management of scarce satellite communication resources is critical for the economic competitiveness of the medium. To support a broad spectrum of users with small terminals at high data rates, narrow transmit spotbeams from the satellite must be used. Since satellite on-board resources are too expensive to illuminate all of the spotbeam-coverage cells within the satellite service area, an optimized method of agile antenna gain patterning and beam scheduling is required to greatly improve the efficiency of transmission and power management. In this thesis, we jointly optimize resource allocation/scheduling, congestion control and antenna gain patterning for communication satellites with advanced transmission antennas. Then, we develop a low-complexity on-line algorithm that considers channel conditions, interference and average delay constraints, and approaches the theoretical steady-state limit. We introduce optimized beam profiling based on traffic demand and channel conditions over satellite downlinks, which can achieve a substantial power gain and reasonable proportional fairness. We show that a modest number of active parallel beams are sufficient to cover many cells efficiently with dynamic capacity allocation.

Department dc:contributor.department

Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.

Grantor dc:publisher

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Year dc:date.issued

2006

Author dc:creator

• Choi, Jihwan Patrick, 1975-

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Vincent W.S. Chan.

• Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.

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• M.I.T. theses are protected by copyright. They may be viewed from this source for any purpose, but reproduction or distribution in any format is prohibited without written permission. See provided URL for inquiries about permission.

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• http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7582

Language dc:language.iso

eng

Handle dc:identifier.uri

http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/38298

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:dspace.mit.edu:1721.1/38298