Inbound Carrier Plan Optimization for Adaptive VSAT Networks

The past decades witnessed the application of adaptive coding and modulation (ACM) in satellite links. However, ACM technologies come at cost higher complexity when designing network's carrier plan user terminals. Accounting for those issues is even more important link uses frequencies Ka band above, where attenuation caused by tropospheric phenomena a major concern. In this paper, we propose solution inbound, i.e., return link, sizing very small aperture terminal (VSAT) networks. As key factor, present mathematical problem formulation based on spatially correlated time series. Our proposed scheme formulated as mixed integer linear programming (MILP) optimization problem. The numerical results test scenario Europe show 10 to 50% bandwidth improvement over traditional methods outage probabilities lower than 1%.