Fade correlation and diversity effects in satellite broadcasting to mobile users in S-band

International Journal of Satellite Communications and Networking

Volumn 26, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 359-379

  Heuberger, Albert ^a  

^a FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR INTEGRATED CIRCUITS IIS   (Germany)

Author keywords

Direct broadcasting satellites; Diversity gain; Fade correlation; Geostationary orbit; Land mobile satellite channel; QoS; Quality of service; S band; Space diversity; Time diversity; Time variant fading

Indexed keywords

BROADCASTING; COHERENT LIGHT; CORRELATION METHODS; DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; ERROR CORRECTION; FORWARD ERROR CORRECTION; GEOSTATIONARY SATELLITES; GLOBAL SYSTEM FOR MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; REGIONAL PLANNING; RISK ASSESSMENT; SATELLITES; SEPARATION; TELECOMMUNICATION; TURBO CODES;

COHERENCE LENGTHS; CONCATENATED CODING; CORRELATION CO-EFFICIENT; CROSS CORRELATIONS; CUMULATIVE DISTRIBUTION FUNCTION; DIRECT BROADCASTING SATELLITES; DIVERSITY EFFECTS; DIVERSITY GAIN; DIVERSITY GAINS; FADE CORRELATION; FORWARD ERROR CORRECTIONS; GEOSTATIONARY ORBIT; INTERLEAVERS; JOINT PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTIONS; LAND-MOBILE SATELLITE CHANNEL; MEASUREMENT RESULTS; MOBILE USERS; NETWORK CONFIGURATIONS; QOS; QUALITY OF SERVICE; RESIDENTIAL AREAS; RICE FACTOR; RURAL ENVIRONMENTS; S-BAND; SATELLITE BROADCASTING; SATELLITE TIME; SPACE AND TIME; SPACE DIVERSITY; TIME DIVERSITY; TIME-VARIANT FADING; URBAN AREAS;

PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION;

EID: 52449125588     PISSN: 15420973     EISSN: 15420981     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sat.906     Document Type: Article

References (30)

1. Michalski R. An overview of the XM satellite radio system. International Communication Satellite Systems Conference AIAA-2002-1844, Montreal, Canada, 2002.
2. Briskman R, Sharma S. DARS satellite constellation performance. International Communication Satellite Systems Conference AIAA-2002-1967, Montreal, Canada, 2002.
3. Goldhirsh J, Vogel WJ. Handbook of Propagation Effects for Vehicular and Personal Mobile Satellite Systems. John Hopkins University: University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, U.S.A., 1998.
4. Heuberger A. Untersuchungen zur Versorgungsqualität im mobilen Kanal in digitalen Satellitenrundfunknetzen. Dissertation, Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, 2005. ISBN 3-8167-6763-X.
5. Eberlein E, Breiling M, Heuberger A. Double use of the link margin-advanced physical layer for satellite broadcast to mobile users. Twenty-third AIAA ICSSC 11th Ka and Broadband Communications Conference, International Communication Satellite Systems Conference AIAA-2002-1967, Rome, 2005.
6. Eberlein E, Brandenstein H, Heuberger A, Ernst H, Bertoli M. Comparison of physical layer interleaving with upper layer interleaving. Seventh Workshop on Digital Broadcasting Systems, Erlangen, Germany, September 2006. ISBN-10: 3-8167-7179-3, ISBN-13: 978-3-8167-7179-1.
7. Proakis J. Digital Communications (3rd edn). McGraw-Hill: New York, 1995.
8. Yamashita F, Kobayashi K, Ueba M, Umehira M. Broadband multiple satellite MIMO system. Vehicular Technology Conference VTC-2005-Fall, 25-28 September 2005. IEEE 62nd, vol. 4, 2005; 2632-2636.
9. King PR, Stavrou S. Tree obscured mobile satellite channel characteristics and mitigation. IST Mobile Summit, June 2006.
10. Liolis KP, Panagopoulos AD, Cottis PG. Outage capacity statistics of MIMO satellite networks operating at Ka band and above. Proceedings of the 12th Ka and Broadband Communications Conference, Naples, Italy, September 2006.
11. Breiling M, Lampe A, Huber J, Eberlein E, Stadali H. Satellite broadcasting with iteratively de-coded space-time-codes. Third International Symposium on Turbo Codes and Related Topics-ISTC2003, Brest, France, September 2003.
12. Song N, Del Galdo G, Milojevic M, Haardt M, Heuberger A. Spatial availability in satellite-to-indoor broadcasting communications. Seventh Workshop on Digital Broadcasting Systems, Erlangen, Germany, 13-14 September 2006. ISBN-10: 3-8167-7179-3, ISBN-13: 978-3-8167-7179-1.
13. Heuberger A. Diversity concepts for mobile satellite broadcasting. Seventh Workshop on Digital Broadcasting Systems, Erlangen, Germany, 13-14 September 2006. ISBN-10: 3-8167-7179-3, ISBN-13: 978-3-8167-7179-1.
14. International Telecommunication Union. Handbook-Terrestrial and Satellite Digital Sound Broadcasting to Vehicular, Portable and Fixed Receivers in the VHF/UHF Bands. International Telecommunication Union, ITU Radiocommunication Bureau; Geneva, 2002.
15. Lutz E, Cygan D, Dippold M, Dolainsky F, Papke W. The land mobile satellite communication channel-recordings, statistics, and channel model. IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology 1991; 40(2):375-386.
16. Vucetic B, Du J. Channel modeling and simulation in satellite mobile communication systems. IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications 1992; 10(8): 1209-1218.
17. Perez-Fontan F, Vazquez-Castro MA, Buonomo S, Poiares-Baptista JP, Arbesser-Rastburg B. S-band propagation channel behaviour for different environments, degrees of shadowing and elevation angles. IEEE Transactions on Broadcasting 1998; 44(1):40-76.
18. Perez-Fontan F, Vazquez-Castro MA, Cabado CE, Garcia JP, Kubista E. Statistical modeling of the LMS channel. IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology 2001; 50(6):1549-1567.
19. Vogel WJ. Satellite diversity for personal satellite communications- modeling and measurements. Tenth International Conference on Antennas and Propagation, TX, U.S.A., vol. 14, 1997; 1269-1272.
20. Robet PP, Evans BG, Ekman A. Land mobile satellite communication channel model for simultaneous transmission from a land mobile terminal via two separate satellites. International Journal on Satellite Communication 1992; 10:139-154.
21. Akturan R, Vogel WJ. Photogrammetric mobile satellite service prediction. IEE Electronics Letters 1995; 31(3): 165-166.
22. Eberlein E. Apparatus and method for transmitting information and apparatus and method for receiving information. United States Patent US 6 314289 B1, November 2001.
23. Wijk F, Kegel A, Prasad R. Assessment of a pico-cellular system using propagation measurement at 1.9GHz for indoor wireless communications. IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology 1995; 44(1):155-162.
24. Bischl H, Werner M, Lutz E. Elevation-dependent channel model and satellite diversity for NGSO S-PCNs. Proceedings of 46th IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC 96), Atlanta, GA, 1996; 1038-1042.
25. Cover T, Thomas J. Elements of Information Theory. Wiley: New York, 1991.
26. Biglieri E, Proakis J, Shamai S. Fading channels: information theoretic and communications aspects. IEEE Transactions on Information Theory 1998; 44(6):2619-2692.
27. Ozarow LH, Shamai S, Wyner AD. Information theoretic considerations for cellular mobile radio. IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology 1994; 43(2):359-378.
28. Heuberger A, Breiling M. Prediction of QoS in mobile satellite systems using FEC and interleavers. Twenty-third AIAA ICSSC/11th Ka and Broadband Communications Conference 2005 (ICSSC-05), Rome, 2005.
29. Huber J. Skriptum zur Vorlesung Informationstheorie. Lehrstuhl für Nachrichtentechnik, Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg: Erlangen, 2001.
30. Gallager R. Information Theory and Reliable Communication. Wiley: New York, 1968.