The next generation of High Throughput Satellite(HTS)will exploit Q/V band for the feeder link and Ka band for the user link.The exploitation of multiple gateways(GWs)is a transmit diversity measure to compensate seve...The next generation of High Throughput Satellite(HTS)will exploit Q/V band for the feeder link and Ka band for the user link.The exploitation of multiple gateways(GWs)is a transmit diversity measure to compensate severe rain attenuation of Q/V band feeder links.This paper introduces a new smart gateway diversity combination scheme that combinates N-active(K=2)and N+1 diversity method in detail from the working principle,gateway switching strategy,evaluation of system availability and implementation complexity.In addition,a feeder link outage event prediction algorithm featuring combination scheme is given detailly based on modified time-adaptive linear regression.Compared with the existing N+P scheme,the proposed scheme can provide higher system availability and more stable user’s experience under the condition of properly increasing the complexity of payload design.Compared with Nactive scheme that has been reported,it is much easier to implement in engineering and more cost-effective.As a result,the combination scheme is a realistic solution based on a trade-off between performance improvement and implementation complexity.展开更多
基金supported by the Key Pre-Research Project for Civil Space Technology(No.B0106).
文摘The next generation of High Throughput Satellite(HTS)will exploit Q/V band for the feeder link and Ka band for the user link.The exploitation of multiple gateways(GWs)is a transmit diversity measure to compensate severe rain attenuation of Q/V band feeder links.This paper introduces a new smart gateway diversity combination scheme that combinates N-active(K=2)and N+1 diversity method in detail from the working principle,gateway switching strategy,evaluation of system availability and implementation complexity.In addition,a feeder link outage event prediction algorithm featuring combination scheme is given detailly based on modified time-adaptive linear regression.Compared with the existing N+P scheme,the proposed scheme can provide higher system availability and more stable user’s experience under the condition of properly increasing the complexity of payload design.Compared with Nactive scheme that has been reported,it is much easier to implement in engineering and more cost-effective.As a result,the combination scheme is a realistic solution based on a trade-off between performance improvement and implementation complexity.
