The concept of an integrated terrestrial/land mobile satellite system

Potential satellite markets in the public safety (disaster relief, emergency medical, and law enforcement) and common carrier (mobile radio telephone) service areas are identified. The public mobile telephone segment is then examined to illustrate a methodology for identifying a potential satellite addressable market, including capacity requirements for roughly sizing a satellite. It is postulated that satellites could serve this lower density (mobiles per square kilometer), thin-route market at a competitive cost and thus complement terrestrial systems in the urban and more densely populated areas to provide an integrated nationwide mobile service.     

Satellite and terrestrial microwave communications in China

China deploys satellite communications, microwave radio links, and optical fiber systems as three major transmission infrastructures for its public switched telephone network (PSTN). The deployment of the first two of these infrastructures, satellite communications and radio links, is described     

PCS global mobile satellites

As the new era dawns in wireless information systems, mobile satellite services (MSS) are emerging as an integral component in what has become the turn-of-the-century global communication network. It is generally agreed that the universal personal communication paradigm is the confluence of terrestrial-based and satellite-based systems. PCS users will neither know nor care if their calls are being carried by satellite or cellular. Unlike their terrestrial-based counterparts. The MSS, with their global blanket coverage, are truly able to realize the vision of communications from anywhere at any time for people on the move. The MSS are also being used in developing countries without existing wireline networks to provide rapid, ubiquitous telephone service. This article provides an overview of mobile satellite systems and concepts. The materials presented are geared toward a broad audience with engineering or management back grounds     

国外卫星移动通信新进展与发展趋势

在地面移动通信迅猛发展的新形势下,提供相似业务的卫星移动通信的发展动态和趋势值得关注.首先介绍了国外卫星移动通信市场发展动态,然后分别介绍了静止轨道、中轨道和低轨道三类卫星移动通信系统的最新进展,其中静止轨道卫星移动通信发展最好,中低轨道卫星移动通信系统发展相对不景气;最后探讨了卫星移动通信的发展趋势,指出通过星地集成...     

An efficient demand-assignment multiple-access scheme for satellitemobile radio dispatch networks

Conventional DAMA (demand-assignment multiple access) designs process mobile radio calls in much the same way as mobile telephone calls. In mobile radio dispatch networks, where the dispatcher is often the resource bottleneck, these designs result in the inefficient use of satellite channels. A novel DAMA design is presented that ameliorates this problem by using the block-calls-queued service discipline, batched processing of several calls by the network dispatcher, and pipelined messaging for channel setup verification. Analysis shows that the proposed design offers advantages in satellite channel utilization and DAMA signaling overhead compared to previous designs. As space segment resources are expected to be very expensive in the mobile satellite systems networks under development, the proposed procedures could result in significant cost savings     

Demand assignment multiple access and dynamic channel allocationstrategies for integrating radio dispatch and telephone services overmobile satellite systems

The authors discuss the performance analyses of a novel demand assignment multiple access (DAMA) scheme addressing the special characteristics of the mobile radio service (MRS), and a new method for dynamically allocating a common pool of channels to both MRS and mobile telephone service (MTS) to improve channel utilization. The new DAMA scheme makes use of call queuing, batch processing, and pipelined signaling to minimize call setup overhead for MRS traffic. MRS call setup delays were analyzed by simulation modeling of a mobile satellite system (MSS) with many mobile voice-dispatch networks operating over a multiple spot beam satellite to investigate the effects of traffic volume, batch size, and batch service disciplines. A reserved channel margin algorithm for dynamic channel allocation was shown to be effective in harmonizing the different call setup performance requirements for MTS and MRS. Numerical results show that dynamic channel allocation applied to a common pool of 40 channels enables a 20-25% increase in the number of mobile terminals compared with a fixed allocation of 20 channels to each of the two services     

GPRS应用及市场情况简括

GPRS是在移动电话网络上进行信息发送和接收的新技术,是一项新的非语音增值业务。本文论述了GPRS在用户特性和网络特性上体现的优点及局限性,并就GPRS设备供应商和市场分布状况进行了介绍,同时预测了GPRS的发展进程。     

Transmission quality of north American cellular, personalcommunications, and public switched telephone networks

Future long distance, and especially international calls, will involve an increasing number of multilink circuits of cellular, personal communications, mobile satellite, and public switched telephone network (PSTN) type of connections incorporating a variety of speech coding devices. In particular, the rapid growth of cellular communications has highlighted the need to characterize the quality of switched networks when cellular terminals are attached at their termination nodes. At the same time, the nonlinear nature of low-rate parametric speech coding has rendered questionable analytical methods for estimating end-to-end voice quality of interconnected telecommunications networks. Instead, quantification of transmission performance appears to require direct subjective evaluation of the pertinent conditions of interest. In this paper the quality of interconnected North American digital cellular and future microcellular terminals with 16 kbit/s and 32 kbit/s DCME/PCME-based switched and private telephone networks is quantified. From these assessments it can be concluded that cellular networks employing the TIA IS-54 8 kbits/s VSELP algorithm may meet the end-to-end transmission planning criteria when interconnected with the switched network     

How WARC '92 will affect mobile services

The US proposals to, and the decisions of, the 1992 World Administrative Radio Conference (WARC '92) that relate to mobile and mobile-satellite services are described. Mobile-satellite service (MSS) issues addressed at WARC '92 include new allocations for low Earth-orbit (LEO) satellite operations, new MSS spectrum allocations, and modifications to current allocations used to support mobile-satellite operations. Allocation issues on the agenda of WARC '92 that related to the terrestrial mobile services include allocations for mobile services between 1 and 3 GHz, allocations for aeronautical public correspondence, and designation of frequency bands for future public land mobile telecommunications services. A number of proposals which were put forward by the US to support MSS allocations and operations that did not explicitly require allocations to the MSS are discussed     

TETRA Security

TETRA is a digital trunked radio standard for the private/professional mobile radio (PMR) market. BT's Airwave service, a nation-wide mobile radio service designed to serve the needs of the police and other public safety organisations in England, Wales and Scotland, is based on TETRA and the inherent security of TETRA is an essential element of the service. This paper describes the basic security mechanisms in TETRA and the various security services that are delivered using them.     

Universal portable radio communications

In our highly mobile society, the provision of voice and data communications to people away from their wireline telephones has become a major communications frontier. Some emerging radio systems, e.g., cellular mobile radio, cordless telephone, and radio paging, have begun to penetrate this frontier. However, each of these approaches only partially satisfies portable communication needs. That is, the approaches do not provide overall portable communication service. Some of the problems involved and the technologies and system configurations needed for an advanced radio communications system are discussed. The goal for the system is to provide high quality ubiquitous service to low power portable radiotelephones and data terminals. Frequency reuse radio system configurations applicable to residential and large building environments will be described along with multipath and other 800 MHz radio propagation limitations. The system would use fixed radio ports attached to the telephone network and spaced about 2000 ft in residential areas. The residential ports would have antenna heights of less than 30 ft. The horizontal spacing of ports within large buildings would be 200 ft or more. In service areas, more than 99 percent radio link availability would be provided for 5 mW portable transmitters.     

Spectral and economic efficiencies of land mobile radio systems

A variety of land mobile radio systems are compared by their spectral and economic efficiencies in providing various user services. System types covered are private one-channel, shared repeater one channel, controlled-access one-channel, trunked multi-channel, and cellular. Spectral efficiency is defined to be the number of mobile users that can be served per MHz of spectrum in a core urban area, while economic efficiency is the average system cost per mobile. Both efficiencies vary with the type of usage, hence they are calculated for three major usages-mobile telephone service, dispatch service emergency, and dispatch service nonemergency. Services are described via seven "service parameters," namely call holding time (average), tolerable average wait for channel access, peak busy hour utilization per mobile, audio quality (S/N), noise levels tolerable, and service range. Sensitivity of the basic results to variations in the service parameters are also computed and discussed.     

The rapid deployment digital satellite network

The ground mobile forces (GMF) satellite digital multichannel radio, which provided the US Marine Corps with the primary transmission links for its switched backbone during Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm, is discussed. Reliable and highly mobile, the multichannel terminals provided clear and consistent digital pipelines for the Marine Corps circuit switched network and were rapidly deployed on military HWMMV vehicles. The GMF multichannel radios use the defense satellite communication system (DSCS) II and III super-high-frequency (SHF) wideband satellites as retransmission platforms enabling them to be operated theater-wide with no limit on transmission link distance. The deployment and installation of GMF assets in support of the 1st Marine Expeditionary Force during Desert Shield/Desert Storm, including the minimization of outage time due to Sun passage through the radio beam, are described     

Spectral and Economic Efficiencies of Land Mobile Radio Systems

A variety of land mobile radio systems are compared by their spectral and economic efficiencies in providing various user services, system types covered are private one-channel, shared repeater one channel, controlled-access one-channel, trunked multichannel, and cellular. Spectral efficiency is defined to be the number of mobile users that can be served per MHz of spectrum in a core urban area, while economic efficiency is the average system cost per mobile. Both efficiencies vary with the type of usage, hence they are calculated for three major usages-mobile telephone service, dispatch service emergency, and dispatch service nonemergency. Services are described via seven "service parameters," namely call holding time (average), tolerable average wait for channel access, peak busy hour utilization per mobile, audio quality (S/N), noise levels tolerable, and service range. Sensitivity of the basic results to variations in the service parameters are also computed and discussed.     

Telephones in the sky

Following the rapid growth of land mobile radio, increased attention is being paid to the provision of aircraft passenger telephony services. The author reviews the requirements for such services and outlines how modern technology will shortly enable worldwide aeronautical telephony to become a reality-via satellite. The current service provisions and enabling technologies are described and an insight provided into an experimental airline passenger telephone system     

Summary of conclusions of the 1992 World Administrative RadioConference

The major decisions made at the conference are briefly described. Additional frequency bands for shortwave (HF) radio broadcasting were agreed upon. Frequency allocations were made to support a number of US proposals, to provide advanced mobile radio services using low Earth orbit satellites. Allocations for land based mobile services adopted at WARC '92, in the range 1700 to 2600 MHz, are meant to foster improved mobile services that can be used worldwide. An allocation was also made to support commercial telephone service between passengers flying on aircraft and individuals on the ground. Allocations were made for sound broadcasting from satellites, as well as for providing a means to accommodate a complementary terrestrial-based digital audio broadcasting service. New frequency allocations to support space activities were agreed upon, and an allocation was made to the fixed satellite service in the band 13.75 to 14.0 GHz     

Feasibility of Coexistence of Mobile‐Satellite Service and Mobile Service in Cofrequency Bands

Interference scenarios and methodologies between a terrestrial mobile service (MS) system and mobile‐satellite service (MSS) system in a co‐channel environment are established. Taking into account a practical deployment situation for both systems, we perform computational simulation of interference in terms of carrier‐to‐interference ratio (C/I) and interference‐to‐noise ratio (I/N) to evaluate the cofrequency interference from an MS system into an MSS system, and from an MSS system into an MS system, respectively. The methodology and results can be used as a guide when planning the deployment of MSS and MS systems with no unacceptable interference impact between them.     

Modeling and simulation of mixed traffic on a prioritized shared medium

Network access systems (NAS) such as digital loop carriers (DLC) are increasingly utilizing a shared medium, such as Hybrid Fiber Coax (HFC) to provide point‐to‐multi‐point access from the public switched telephone network (PSTN) to the end user (consumer). New services, such as direct access to the packet switched network (PSN, WWW) have been added to DLC equipment in such a way as to provide for a prioritized set of services over a shared medium in an effort to take advantage of otherwise unused bandwidth. The introduction of such services requires the modeling and analysis of these network access systems. This becomes complex when considering the variability in different service type traffic characteristics. This work identifies a traffic engineering problem of prioritized circuit switched and packet switched (PSTN/PSN) traffic over the same shared medium as it may relate to “perceived” quality of service (QoS). Copyright © 2002 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Future broadband radio access systems for integrated services withflexible resource management

The current challenge in radio networks is to provide integrated broadband services to everybody. The realization of this goal is dependent on both the development of products for the mass market and the improvement of the systems that support these products. New cellular mobile, fixed terrestrial, and satellite systems are being developed to provide broadband integrated services. The users of these new systems will not need, or even want, to know which particular systems are used to access the requested services. The users may negotiate terms of delivery, such as data rate and quality of service, but the actual system of delivery should be transparent. In order to both achieve transparent service delivery and ensure efficient use of the radio frequency spectrum, a flexible and scaleable resource management system is needed. This article highlights the development trends that will form the basis of future network systems and presents some suggestions for the management and control of these systems     

The intelligent network in France

The introduction of an intelligent network (IN) architecture in France by France Telecom is described. Two main technical issues of present IN architecture are discussed: the programming interface to be used for service creation and the control-resource interface such as the SSP/SCP interface. The long-term evolution of IN, including the application to networks other than public switched telephone networks (PSTN) and the development of operating systems to handle IN-supported services, is outlined. Major technical problems in implementing a global IN architecture are also discussed