An Approach for Geostationary Satellite Mode Management

Analytical method for determining the statistics of interference between non-geostationary-satellite orbit fixed-satellite service systems and other non-geostationary-satellite orbit fixed-satellite service systems or geostationary-satellite orbit fixed-satellite service networks

Wind Estimation from Geostationary-satellite Pictures

The motion of properly selected clouds derived from photographs taken by the geostationary Advanced Technology Satellites provides estimates of the wind a t cloud level. A large number of lowand high-cloud motions near rawin stations are compared to the balloon-derived winds to determine the levels at which these wind estimates might be used for map analyses and to assess their accuracy a t tho...

Tcp Performance in a Geostationary Satellite Environment

Geostationary satellite links have characteristics that can degrade the performance of TCP. The propagation time for a geostationary satellite link is on the order of 0.25 seconds. Thus a satellite can add approximately 0.5 seconds to the round trip time experienced by a TCP packet and the corresponding acknowledgement. This delay time is the primary cause of TCP inefficiency over satellites. T...

Radio Planning in Multibeam Geostationary Satellite Networks

We consider the problem of how a geostationary satellite should assign bandwidth to several service providers (operators) so as to meet some minimum requirements, on one hand, and to perform the allocation in a fair way, on the other hand. In the paper, we firstly address practical issues (such as integrity constraints), whereafter we provide a computational method for obtaining an optimal fair...

A Single Geostationary Satellite for Mobile Terrestrial Transmitter Tracking

This paper will describe the Energetics Satellite Locating Service (ESLS) which is a unique, patented, proprietary satellite based geolocation system. This system called SAT/TRAC for Satellite Tracking, Ranging and Communications may be used to quickly determine the present location within 50 feet of any person, vehicle or object that is equipped with a ESLS low power transmitter. This technolo...