Multiplex communications – Pathfinding or routing – Switching a message which includes an address header
Patent
1997-10-14
2000-12-05
Pham, Chi H.
Multiplex communications
Pathfinding or routing
Switching a message which includes an address header
370316, 370441, H04B 7185, H04B 7216, H04L 1228
Patent
active
061576425
ABSTRACT:
A data communication system for a constellation of low-Earth orbit (LEO) satellites (13a, 13b, . . . ) that employ Earth-fixed cellular beam management technology is disclosed. The data to be communicated is formed into data packets by a transmitting ground terminal (41). Each data packet includes a header (41) and a payload (43). The header (41) contains address and other control information and the payload (43) contains the data to be communicated. The header and payload databits are separated (71) and outer forward error correction (FEC) encoded (72, 73) with an outer error correction code. The symbols of the outer encoded header and payload codewords are interleaved, first separately (74, 75) and then together (76). The outer encoded, interleaved header and payload codewords are inner encoded by an inner FEC encoder (77). Upon receipt by an uplink satellite (63), the inner error correction code is removed (87) and the resulting codeword symbols are de-interleaved (88, 89, 90). The outer error correction code of the header portion is then removed (91) to recover the header of the original signal. The information contained in the header is used to route the data packets through the satellite constellation to the appropriate downlink satellite (93). The downlink satellite re-outer encodes the header (95) and the symbols of the re-outer encoded header and the still outer encoded payload codewords are separately interleaved (96, 97) and then interleaved together (98). The interleaved re-outer encoded header and outer encoded payload databits are re-inner encoded (99). Upon receipt by a receiving ground terminal (107), the data packets are inner decoded (111) to remove the inner error correction code and the symbols of the header and payload codewords are de-interleaved (112, 113, 114). Then the header and payload codewords are outer decoded (115, 116) to remove the outer error correction codes and recover the header and payload. Preferably a payload filter (117) is included to eliminate the need to outer decode payload codewords not destined for the receiving ground terminal (107).
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Ghazvinian Farzad
Griep Karl R.
Hinedi Sami M.
Million Samson
Sturza Mark A.
Pham Brenda H.
Pham Chi H.
Teledesic LLC
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