Traffic characteristics of LEOS-based global personal communications networks
Abbas Jamalipour, Masaaki Katayama, Atsunori Ogawa · IEEE Communications Magazine · 1997
The authors present important traffic issues in a low earth orbit satellite-based global personal communications network. The article gives an overview of the characteristics of tomorrow's personal communications networks from a subscriber traffic viewpoint. Selection of multiple access scheme as well as traffic modeling in such systems is discussed, and effects of natural, unbalanced global communications traffic on the performance of the system are distinguished.