January 23, 1996
Abstract -
Low earth orbital satellite communication systems are one of
the hottest topics in the field of satellite communications.
This type of system encounters many interesting technical issues
such as receiver synchronization in the presence of large Doppler
shifts, hand-off procedures between satellites, inter-satellite
interference, routing through satellites, etc. Among these issues,
this seminar will discuss the effects of geographically nonuniform
traffic requirements on throughput performance.
Although it is a normal feature of our globe that different
amounts of communication are requested in different areas,
there have been very few studies on the effects of such.
In this seminar, a simple, tractable mathematical model of traffic
nonuniformity will be introduced. Under this model, the throughput
performance of up-link (reverse-link) will be discussed. As an access
scheme, Spread Slotted ALOHA, which is a combination of
SSMA and S-ALOHA, will be employed. In order to improve the
throughput performance, some modifications of this scheme have
been proposed, such as varying the transmitting power of each user
according to its position relative to the satellites or even prohibiting
some terminals from transmitting. These modifications will be
introduced, and numerical results showing the performance
improvements will be given.
Biosketch -
Prof. Katayama, Assoc. Prof. of Nagoya University in Japan,
received his Ph.D. from Osaka University, Japan, in 1986
in Communication Engineering. He has been in EECS as a
visiting associate professor, from September 1995, according to the
Academic Exchange Program between the School of Engineering
of Nagoya University and the College of Engineering of the
University of Michigan. His research interests include,
Satellite and Mobile Communication Systems,
Spread Spectrum Communication Systems, Traffic Control in
Radio Networks, Nonlinear Modulation and Coded Modulations,
and Combined Designs of Adaptive Array Antennas and Receivers.