Switching and network control on-board advanced satellites
Abstract
The concept of a Modular On-Board Switching System (MOBS) is presented. MOBS performs not only baseband switching, but also signaling evaluation on-board. Thus no Master Control Center is needed for normal call processing. The switch is based on a distributed and modular bus-memory structure. The switching processor uses Transputers as processing elements in a fault-tolerant architecture.
- Publication:
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13th AIAA International Communication Satellite Systems Conference and Exhibit
- Pub Date:
- 1990
- Bibcode:
- 1990icss.conf..649B
- Keywords:
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- Communication Satellites;
- Fault Tolerance;
- Network Control;
- Onboard Data Processing;
- Satellite-Borne Instruments;
- Switching;
- Multibeam Antennas;
- Random Access Memory;
- Transputers;
- Communications and Radar