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Space-based communication system and method with continuous channel reuse maintenance

  • US 5,862,479 A
  • Filed: 12/27/1996
  • Issued: 01/19/1999
  • Est. Priority Date: 12/27/1996
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A method of reuse channel management, the method comprising the steps of:

  • (a) computing interference potentials between a reference reuse unit being used by a first satellite and reuse units being used by second satellites by determining each of the interference potentials based on a physical distance between a center of a first beam that uses the reference reuse unit and each of a center of second beams that use the reuse units and a correlation factor; and

    (b) assigning a non-interfering reuse unit to the first satellite when each of the interference potentials are less than a threshold interference potential.

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