The feasibility of a personal communications network using portable terminals that can provide 4.8 kb/s voice communications to a hub station via Ka-band geosynchronous satellite has been investigated. Tradeoffs are examined so that the combined system of hub and gateway earth stations, the satellite, and the personal terminals can provide a competitive service in terms of cost, availability, and quality. A baseline system that uses a spacecraft with approximately 140 spot beams to cover the contiguous US (CONUS) and 5 W power amplifiers in each beam is described. Satellite access in both the forward and return directions uses frequency-division multiple-access/code-division multiple-access (FDMA/CDMA) with a chip rate of 2.5 Mchip/s
Published in:
Selected Areas in Communications, IEEE Journal on
(Volume:10
,
Issue:
2
)
Date of Publication:
Feb 1992
- Page(s):
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401
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417
- ISSN :
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0733-8716
- INSPEC Accession Number:
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4145869
- Digital Object Identifier :
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10.1109/49.126991
- Product Type:
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Journals & Magazines
- Date of Current Version :
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06 August 2002
- Issue Date :
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Feb 1992