Capacity assessment of net-centric SATCOM systems

  • Authors:
  • Richard L. Gobbi;Carl H. Burris;Jerry Fernholz;John Alexovich;David M. Cascio;John J. Knab

  • Affiliations:
  • LinQuest Corporation, Falls Church, VA;LinQuest Corporation, Falls Church, VA;LinQuest Corporation, Los Angeles, CA;LinQuest Corporation, Los Angeles, CA;Science Applications International Corporation, McLean, VA;Defense Information Systems Agency, Falls Church, VA

  • Venue:
  • MILCOM'06 Proceedings of the 2006 IEEE conference on Military communications
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

A capacity assessment methodology is described for Internet Protocol based services over packet-routing SATCOM systems. The methodology accurately characterizes user networks while accounting for physical and system-specific constraints on terminal transmission and reception modes and on terminal-to-beam mappings. Statistical models of user packet traffic are developed from user application information. These models are applied in the SATCOM Evaluation Tool (SET) to assign satellite capacity to user connectivity requirements and to derive statistical multiplexing gains.