MARISAT multiple access capabilities
Abstract
The paper outlines the initial MARISAT communications configuration, the MARISAT numbering plan, multishore station operation, central dispatching, and distributed control. Examples are given of the presently planned methods for announcing and setting up teleprinter calls in a distributed multishore station configuration. The basic FDMA method used in MARISAT together with the ship numbering plan allows a large number of shore stations to access the system. The addition of a shore station requires a full time channel capacity allocation of only about one half of a voice channel. The mobile terminals being deployed in the system today will be fully capable of communicating in the maritime communications satellite networks of tomorrow.
- Publication:
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In: International Conference on Communications
- Pub Date:
- 1976
- Bibcode:
- 1976icc.....3R..51S
- Keywords:
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- Channel Capacity;
- Communication Satellites;
- Frequency Division Multiplexing;
- Ground Stations;
- Maritime Satellites;
- Multichannel Communication;
- Satellite Networks;
- Satellite Transmission;
- Technological Forecasting;
- Teleprinters;
- Voice Communication;
- Communications and Radar