Abstract: A satellite communication system includes a satellite, a satellite base station, and a user device. The satellite supports a number of satellite beams. Each satellite beam includes a number of cells. The satellite base station can communicate with the satellite via a feeder link. The user device is in communication with the satellite and the satellite base station. The user device can select a cell that covers a location of the user device based on a cell contour and a quality of a downlink signal received from the satellite base station. The satellite communication system can be operated by using LTE and/or NB-IoT standards, protocols, and/or waveforms.

Abstract: A satellite communication system includes a satellite, a satellite base station, and a user device. The satellite supports a number of satellite beams. Each satellite beam includes a number of cells. The satellite base station can communicate with the satellite via a feeder link. The user device is in communication with the satellite and the satellite base station. The user device can select a cell that covers a location of the user device based on a cell contour and a quality of a downlink signal received from the satellite base station. The satellite communication system can be operated by using LTE and/or NB-IoT standards, protocols, and/or waveforms.

Abstract: A communication device includes a session and mobility management block configured to interface with a mobility management entity (MME) of an evolved packet core (EPC) of an evolved packet system (EPS). An access non-LTE air interface circuit is configured to communicate with an access network gateway. An EPS inter-working functional block including mapping and coordination logic is configured to map and coordinate a plurality of functionalities associated with the access non-LTE air interface circuit into corresponding functionalities associated with the session and mobility management block.

Abstract: A method for uplink and downlink scheduling in a satellite long-term evolution (LTE) network includes receiving, at a satellite base station, a scheduling request from a terminal device. The method further includes transmitting an uplink and downlink grant to the terminal device with an initial allocation that supports the configured data rate. User data is sent and received from the terminal device based on this initial allocation without continually sending grants to the terminal device. The method also supports changes to the persistent allocation based on updated user traffic requirements as indicated by the terminal device.

Abstract: A method for resource allocation in a multi-beam satellite LTE network includes determining, via a communication processor, a per sub-frame resource block (RB) threshold value on a per-beam and per-LTE carrier basis, based on a total transmission power and shared power amplifiers available to multiple beams of a space vehicle while ensuring that power amplifiers operate in a linear amplification region. The method further includes communicating the LTE per subframe RB threshold value to a downlink LTE scheduler function within the eNode-B to ensure that the count of subframe level RB allocations is less than the determined LTE per subframe RB threshold value.

Abstract: An IP multicast broadcast device, an IP multicast receiver device, and a method of congestion control in reliable IP multicast are described that mitigate the impact of signal blockage in radio-based IP multicast networks. In one example multicast network, the IP multicast broadcast device, and the IP multicast receiver devices may be configured to support an IGMP-based multicast protocol in which a NORM protocol, a congested packet marking protocol, e.g., such as the ECN protocol described above, and a router congestion prediction protocol, e.g., such as the RED protocol, have been implemented. In addition, the implemented NORM protocol may implement a TCP congestion control algorithm that generates adjusted transmission rates based, at least in part, on a count of ECN congestion marked packets and a count of dropped packets at a selected receiver. As a result, the generated transmission rates are not unduly affected blockage of the radio-based transmission signal.

Abstract: An IP multicast broadcast device, an IP multicast receiver device, and a method of congestion control in reliable IP multicast are described that mitigate the impact of signal blockage in radio-based IP multicast networks. In one example multicast network, the IP multicast broadcast device, and the IP multicast receiver devices may be configured to support an IGMP-based multicast protocol in which a NORM protocol, a congested packet marking protocol, e.g., such as the ECN protocol described above, and a router congestion prediction protocol, e.g., such as the RED protocol, have been implemented. In addition, the implemented NORM protocol may implement a TCP congestion control algorithm that generates adjusted transmission rates based, at least in part, on a count of ECN congestion marked packets and a count of dropped packets at a selected receiver. As a result, the generated transmission rates are not unduly affected blockage of the radio-based transmission signal.

Abstract: In a multiple-user network communication system such as a satellite-based system, or in cable or wireless systems, the system resources, such as bandwidth, code allocation, and or slot timing, are allocated to users based in part on their class of service. The allocation provides for immediate allocation of the requested resources to a user having a verified high class of service so long as the resources are abatable or can be made available by tapping a resource reserve. If only a portion of the requested resources are available, they are made available immediately. From time to time, the resources available to at least one class of service are allocated among the users of that class of service, either equally, equally up to the requested resources, equitably, or in some systematic manner.

Abstract: In a multiple-user network communication system such as a satellite-based system, or in cable or wireless systems, the system resources, such as bandwidth, code allocation, and or slot timing, are allocated to users based in part on their class of service. The allocation provides for immediate allocation of the requested resources to a user having a verified high class of service so long as the resources are abatable or can be made available by tapping a resource reserve. If only a portion of the requested resources are available, they are made available immediately. From time to time, the resources available to at least one class of service are allocated among the users of that class of service, either equally, equally up to the requested resources, equitably, or in some systematic manner.

Abstract: A Terrestrial Satellite Interworking Unit (TSIU) is provided for achieving seamless integration of a terrestrial ATM network with a satellite ATM network. In particular, the TSIU in incorporated within a gateway for interconnecting a COTS ATM switch communicably linked to the terrestrial ATM network and a satellite modem communicably linked to the satellite ATM network. The TSIU provides traffic and resource management functions (such as DAMA, congestion control, and jitter removal), signaling interworking functions, and satellite domain-specific functions (such as data encryption/decryption, control channel ciphering, and gateway authentication).

Abstract: In an asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) system, interleaved cells are formed at the transmit end by combining into each interleaved cell certain bits from each of plural different original ATM cells, the interleaved cells are transmitted over the communications link, and then deinterleaved at the receive end. Any bursty errors occurring on the communications link will, after deinterleaving, be spread out over multiple original ATM cells, maximizing the error correction for ATM cells and error detection for AAL capability and minimizing loss of data. The C1 byte in the Physical Layer Convergence Protocol (PLCP), which indicates the location of end of the PLCP frame, is protected against the burst errors by replication of C1 byte through inserting them in the growth bytes Z1 through Z4.