Method for controlling data transmission rate in interactive satellite communication system

• US 7,286,824 B2
• Filed: 08/11/2004
• Issued: 10/23/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 12/24/2003
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
• Original Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
• Inventors: Lee, Ho-Jin, Lee, Ki-Dong, Oh, Deock-Gil, Kim, Ho-Kyom
• Primary Examiner(s): Urban; Edward F.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Lee; John J.
• Application Number:
  US10/916,965
• Publication Number:
  US 20050143003A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,168 Days
• Field of Search: 455/3.02, 455/3.03, 455/427, 455/429, 455/430, 455/452.1, 455/452.2, 455/456.4, 455/9, 455/12.1, 455/13.2, 455/507, 455/509, 455/63.1, 455/67.11, 455/504, 455/69, 455/70, 370/468, 370/435, 370/318, 370/465
• US Class Current: 455/430
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 7/18532 Arrangements for managing transmission, i.e. for transporting data or a signalling message

Abstract

A method for controlling data transmission rate in order to save waste of resources due to Non-Line Of Sight (NLOS) region when a mobile terminal passes through the NLOS region in an interactive satellite communication system is disclosed. The method includes the steps of setting at least one threshold; at a Network Control Center (NCC) adjusting allocated resources based on the Constant Resources Allocation (CRA) after detecting whether Satellite Access Control is lost or not; compensating transmission delay by reallocating if the mobile terminal returns from the NLOS region within a first threshold duration, wherein the mobile terminal maintains the fine sync state during the first threshold duration; and deallocating all resources allocated based on the CRA if the mobile terminal does not return from the NLOS region within the first threshold duration.

Claims

1. A method for controlling a data transmission rate in an interactive satellite communication system, the method comprising the steps of:

a) setting at least one threshold, which is a statistical time duration maintaining a fine sync state while a mobile terminal enters and departs from a Non-Line Of Sight (NLOS) region;

b) at a Network Control Center (NCC) adjusting allocated resources based on the Constant Resources Allocation (CRA) after detecting whether Satellite Access Control (SAC) is lost or not;

c) compensating transmission delay by reallocating if the mobile terminal returns from the NLOS region within a first threshold duration, wherein the mobile terminal maintains the fine sync state during the first threshold duration; and

d) deallocating all resources allocated based on the CRA if the mobile terminal does not return from the NLOS region within the first threshold duration.

2. The method as recited in claim 1, further comprising the steps of:

e) converting the fine sync state of the mobile terminal into a coarse sync, if the mobile terminal returns from the NLOS region within a second threshold duration; and

f) converting the coarse sync state of the mobile terminal into a log-on initial state, if the mobile terminal does not return from the NLOS region within the second threshold duration.

3. The method as recited in claim 2, further comprising the steps of:

g) converting the coarse sync state of the mobile terminal into the log-on initial state, if the mobile terminal returns from the NLOS region within third threshold duration; and

h) logging off by terminating the log-on state, if the mobile terminal does not return from the NLOS region within the third threshold duration.

4. The method as recited in claim 1, wherein the NCC determines a state of the mobile terminal based on the return time of the mobile terminal from the NLOS region, and deallocates the allocated resources partially, and compensates data transmission delay by reallocating resources after deallocating the resources based on the multi-stage state of the mobile terminal.

5. The method as recited in claim 4, wherein the resource reallocation is operated statistically in order to minimize the risk that the mobile terminal enters the NLOS region.