Satellite communications system utilizing parallel concatenated coding
US5734962A · kind A · utility
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| Filing date | Jul 17, 1996 |
| Grant date | Mar 31, 1998 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Jul 17, 2016 |
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- Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
- CPC primaryH03M13/2966
- WIPO fieldDigital communication
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A VSAT satellite communications network utilizes parallel concatenated coding on its inbound or outbound links, or both. For short data blocks, nonrecursive systematic tail-biting convolutional codes are used. For longer data blocks, recursive systematic convolutional codes are used. These parallel concatenated coding techniques are used in conjunction with spread-spectrum modulation to provide a VSAT communications system which meets FCC regulations on the total power spectral density of transmitted signals as well as mitigates interference from adjacent satellites.
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