Systems and methods for flexible assignment of beams to gateways in a high throughput digital payload satellite network
US10601502B2 · kind B2 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Feb 5, 2018 |
| Grant date | Mar 24, 2020 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Mar 9, 2038 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
- CPC primaryH04W88/16
- WIPO fieldTelecommunications
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
The disclosure provides for the flexible assignment of user beams to gateway beams in digital payload satellite systems. A “virtual beam”—a set of data values associating a physical user satellite beam with a Gateway Earth Station (“GW”) and used by the GW to service the physical user satellite beam, may be created or defined each time a physical user satellite beam is assigned to a GW. For one physical user beam, a plurality of virtual beams may be created, where each virtual beam corresponds to a GW. The virtual beams may be used to provide for the flexible assignment of user beams to gateway beams in a variety of applications such as GW expansion, physical user beam reassignment from one GW to another GW, diversity operation of terminals, and GW redundancy.
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