Examination of the data rate obtainable with low‐gain non‐tracking antenna applied to user terminal used for mobile communications and broadcasting services provided by quasi‐zenithal satellites

Abstract

SUMMARYLink budgets between the mobile user terminal and a feeder link station (2-m-diameter antenna) through the quasi-zenithal satellite system (QZSS) (7-m-diameter antenna for Tx, 5-m-diameter antenna for Rx) under the power flux density (PFD) limit were calculated for the Ka-and Ku-band. The PFD limit for nongeostationary satellites is applied for frequency sharing between QZSS and geostationary satellites. The maximum data rate in the Ka-band was 1.7 times higher than in the Ku-band in the forward link, while the maximum data rate at Ku-band is nine times higher than that in the Ka-band in the return link when the transmit power derived from the regulations of the PFD is applied. And it is more than three times higher than that in the Ka-band when transmit power is fixed to 2 W: In the forward link, maximum data rates are 149 kbps in the Ka-band and 86 kbps in the Ku-band when the user terminal antenna is non-tracking (gain at the satellite direction is 7:1 dBi) and the frequency bandwidth per beam is 30 MHz: Required bandwidth per channel for a certain data rate is large, e.g. in Ka-band, 20:9 MHz for 64 kbps; 125 MHz for 384 kbps; and 326 MHz for 1 Mbps: In the return link, the maximum data rates are 44 kbps in the Ku-band and 13:6 kbps in the Ka-band when the user terminal antenna gain in the satellite direction is 7:1 dBi and transmit power is 2 W:

A New Approach to Enhanced LEO Satellites Communication

“…Two examples of literature in these fields are Ref. 6 and 7, which discuss the relevance of elevation for low-gain nontracking antennas and models for rain attenuation involving elevation, respectively.…”