Title: Investigation of airplanes effects on VSAT satellite communication systems

Authors: Kiyotaka Fujisaki; Mitsuo Tateiba

Addresses: Graduate School of Information Science and Electrical Engineering, Kyushu University, 744 Motooka, Nishi-Ku, Fukuoka 819-0395, Japan ' Graduate School of Information Science and Electrical Engineering, Kyushu University, 744 Motooka, Nishi-Ku, Fukuoka 819-0395, Japan

Abstract: Satellite communication is playing an important role in the communication infrastructure supporting multi-media services. Nowadays, satellite communication networks using very small aperture terminals (VSAT) are useful communication infrastructures supporting various application demands. To make more reliable communication link by using VSAT, it is important to accumulate certain knowledge concerned with transmission characteristics via satellite communication channels through experimental research. In this paper, we collect the measured data on bit errors due to airplanes by using four VSAT satellite communication systems, and present effective countermeasures against airplane effects on satellite channels when airplanes fly over a town at a low altitude of less than 1,000 m and cross an antenna beam.

Keywords: satellite communications; very small aperture terminals; VSAT; bit error; airplane effect; multimedia services; communication links; airplanes; airplane interference; antenna beams.

DOI: 10.1504/IJSSC.2015.073719

International Journal of Space-Based and Situated Computing, 2015 Vol.5 No.4, pp.222 - 229

Received: 13 Feb 2015
Accepted: 07 May 2015

Published online: 16 Dec 2015 *

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