Method and system for transmitting satellite signals and receiver thereof
First Claim
1. A transmitter comprising:
- a splitter configured to receive a data stream comprising data packets and configured to subdivide the data stream into a plurality of data pseudo-streams, wherein subdividing the data stream into the plurality of data pseudo-streams comprises;
the splitter diverting a first data packet from the data stream so that the first data packet is added to a first data pseudo-stream, andwhen the splitter diverts the first data packet to the first data pseudo-stream, the splitter also sends a null data packet to any remaining data pseudo-streams in the plurality of data pseudo-streams;
a plurality of modulators each configured to modulate one of the data pseudo-streams;
the transmitter being further configured to transmit the modulated data pseudo-streams through respective transmission channels.
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Abstract
A transmission system, a receiver and a method for satellite signal transmission, wherein the satellite signals includes respective data streams consisting of a sequence of data packets. The method incudes: subdividing the data packets of the data stream, through a splitter, into a first and at least one second data pseudo-streams; modulating the first and at least one second data pseudo-streams through a first and at least one second modulators, respectively; transmitting the modulated data pseudo-streams through respective transmission channels (Ch#1 . . . Ch#N), wherein, in order to generate the data pseudo-streams, the splitter will: select each data packet of the data stream; interrogate the modulators in a sequential manner in order to identify that modulator which, among the modulators, is available to accept the data packet, and send the latter to it; send a null data packet to the remaining modulators.
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17 Claims
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1. A transmitter comprising:
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a splitter configured to receive a data stream comprising data packets and configured to subdivide the data stream into a plurality of data pseudo-streams, wherein subdividing the data stream into the plurality of data pseudo-streams comprises; the splitter diverting a first data packet from the data stream so that the first data packet is added to a first data pseudo-stream, and when the splitter diverts the first data packet to the first data pseudo-stream, the splitter also sends a null data packet to any remaining data pseudo-streams in the plurality of data pseudo-streams; a plurality of modulators each configured to modulate one of the data pseudo-streams; the transmitter being further configured to transmit the modulated data pseudo-streams through respective transmission channels. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10)
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11. A receiver for receiving a satellite signal sent through a plurality of transmission channels, comprising:
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a plurality of demodulators each configured to demodulate a signal received from one of the plurality of transmission channels and to output a data pseudo-stream, a merger arranged downstream the demodulators, configured to receive the data pseudo-streams and to merge the data pseudo-streams to obtain a reconstructed data stream that includes a sequence of data packets, wherein, the merger is configured to; re-align the data pseudo-streams on a basis of a value of a field of the data packet; select, for each data packet of the re-aligned pseudo-streams, one that contains a non-null packet; and insert the non-null packet into the reconstructed data stream. - View Dependent Claims (12, 13, 14, 15)
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16. A method for managing an incoming data stream, the method comprising:
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receiving a data stream that is comprised of data packets; subdividing the data stream into a plurality of data pseudo-streams by performing the following; diverting a first data packet from the data stream so that the first data packet is added to a first data pseudo-stream, and sending a null data packet to any remaining data pseudo-streams in the plurality of data pseudo-streams when the first data packet is diverted to the first data pseudo-stream; modulating each of the plurality of data pseudo-streams; and transmitting each of the plurality of modulated data pseudo-streams through respective transmission channels. - View Dependent Claims (17)
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