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Some general approaches for performance analysis of the ALOHA-based satellite channel
Author(s)
Assavaruk, Seri
Sittichevapak, Suvipol
Varakulsiripunth, Ruttikorn
Date Issued
December 1, 1998
Type
Article
Abstract
Satellite link has been employing as the minor part of data networks for many years, but it is a hard task for engineer to initially design and evaluate a network employing both terrestrial and satellite links, since the satellite scheme from each vendor has different aspects and conditions, though their basic structures are similar. This paper presents a general model of satellite channel with multiple access scheme. It employs a simple flow basis of the number of blocked stations to represent system behavior at equilibrium point. The model has a general and plain structure and, thus, has the benefit of: 1) easy to be conformed to different types of satellite channel which rudiment structure is random access method, especially slotted ALOHA, for inroute channel, 2) results are expressed in terms of general performance measures which could be painlessly interfaced to terrestrial network. Finally, results obtained from simulation and numerical computation are presented and compared.
Citation
IEEE Asia Pacific Conference on Circuits and Systems Proceedings, 487-490, 1998