IP Library Granted Patent US 10,555,219
Granted Patent B1
US 10,555,219 · App. 16/298,219 · Granted Feb 4, 2020

Dynamic single channel per carrier with implicit dynamic bandwidth allocation

Inventor: Yogesh Sethi (Germantown, MD)
Assignee: Hughes Network Systems, LLC
H04W28/20H04B7/155H04B7/18528H04W72/0453
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Patent No.
US 10,555,219
App. No.
16/298,219
Granted
Feb 4, 2020
Kind
B1
Abstract

A method to provide dedicated bandwidth, the method including: provisioning transmitters to transmit over a satellite link; generating, for each of the transmitters, a respective transmit signal using a common codeblock asynchronous sub-carrier multiple access (A-SCMA) encoding for a respective information stream; transmitting, via the satellite link, the respective transmit signal from each of the transmitters; and varying a bandwidth rate of each of the respective transmit signals with a grant-free protocol, where the bandwidth rate of the respective transmit signals is less than or equal to a maximum system rate, the transmitting of at least two or more of the transmitters is at least partially concurrent, and each of the respective transmit signals is modulated at a common frequency over a common frequency band with a common polarization. The method reduces latency, jitter, and provides dynamic bandwidth allocation without allocation feedback.

Claims (42)

1. A method for providing dedicated bandwidth to a satellite gateway, the method comprising:

provisioning satellite terminals, each satellite terminal comprising a transmitter to transmit over a satellite link;

generating, at a respective satellite terminal for each of the transmitters, a respective transmit signal using a common codeblock Asynchronous Scrambled Coded Multiple Access (A-SCMA) encoding for a respective information stream;

transmitting, via the satellite link, the respective transmit signal from each of the transmitters; and

varying, at the respective satellite terminal, a bandwidth rate of each of the respective transmit signals without feedback based dynamic allocation from the satellite gateway,

wherein the bandwidth rate of the respective transmit signals is less than or equal to a maximum system rate,

the transmitting from at least two or more of the transmitters is at least partially concurrent,

each of the respective transmit signals is modulated at a common frequency over a common frequency band with a common polarization,

the provisioning comprises setting a maximum count of the transmitters for the satellite link to be less than or equal to 136% of the maximum system rate divided by a CIR, and

the satellite gateway receives the respective transmit signals as a composite wave and separates each of the respective transmit signals from the composite wave.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the bandwidth rate of at least two of the respective transmit signals is less than or equal to a Committed Information Rate (CIR), and the CIR is less than the maximum system rate.

3. The method of claim 1 , wherein the provisioning configures each of the transmitters to initiate a transmission at an instant unique to each of the transmitters.

4. The method of claim 1 , further comprising: receiving the respective transmit signals as a composite wave; and separating each of the respective transmit signals from the composite wave.

5. The method of claim 1 , further comprising creating randomness across the transmitters, wherein at least one of the transmitters transmits information in a burst mode.

6. The method of claim 1 , wherein a start of the transmitting is aligned with a frame start.

7. The method of claim 1 , wherein a start of the transmitting starts when information for transmission is received by one of the transmitters.

8. The method of claim 1 , wherein the transmitting operates in a burst mode.

9. The method of claim 1 , wherein the transmitting operates in a continuous mode.

10. The method of claim 1 , wherein the common codeblock is not aligned across the transmitters.

11. The method of claim 1 , wherein the varying of the bandwidth rate of each of the respective transmit signals is dynamic.

12. The method of claim 1 , wherein

the varying permits the bandwidth rate of one of the respective transmit signals to exceed a CIR for a threshold percent of an allocation period,

the bandwidth rate is less than or equal to a Peak Information Rate (PIR), and

the maximum system rate is greater than the PIR and the PIR is greater than the CIR.

13. The method of claim 12 , wherein the bandwidth rate for each of the respective transmit signals is limited to a rate less than the PIR for an allocation period.

14. The method of claim 12 , wherein each of the transmitters determines its bandwidth rate and each of the transmitters limits its bandwidth rate to be less than the CIR.

15. The method of claim 12 , wherein the satellite link is a 2M channel encoded with QPSK R1/10, the CIR is 200 kbps, the PIR is 300 kbps and a count of the transmitters is between 20 to 30.

16. A system to provide dedicated bandwidth, the system comprising:

satellite terminals, each satellite terminal comprising a transmitter to transmit over a satellite link; and

a satellite gateway, wherein

each of the transmitters generates a respective transmit signal using a common codeblock Asynchronous Scrambled Coded Multiple Access (A-SCMA) encoding for a respective information stream,

the respective transmit signal from each of the transmitters is transmitted to the satellite gateway via the satellite link; and

a bandwidth rate of each of the respective transmit signals is varied, at the respective satellite terminal without feedback based dynamic allocation from the satellite gateway,

the bandwidth rate of the respective transmit signals is less than or equal to a maximum system rate,

the transmitting from at least two or more of the transmitters is at least partially concurrent,

each of the satellite terminals modulates the respective transmit signals at a common frequency over a common frequency band with a common polarization,

a maximum count of the transmitters for the satellite link is set by the satellite gateway to be less than or equal to 136% of the maximum system rate divided by a CIR, and

the satellite gateway receives the respective transmit signals as a composite wave and separates each of the respective transmit signals from the composite wave.

17. The system of claim 16 , wherein

the bandwidth rate of one of the respective transmit signals is permitted to exceed a CIR for a threshold percent of an allocation period,

the bandwidth rate is less than or equal to a Peak Information Rate (PIR), and

the maximum system rate is greater than the PIR and the PIR is greater than the CIR.

Assignments (4)
CORRECTIVE ASSIGNMENT TO CORRECT THE REMOVE APPLICATION NUMBER 15649418 PREVIOUSLY RECORDED ON REEL 050600 FRAME 0314. ASSIGNOR(S) HEREBY CONFIRMS THE ASSIGNMENT OF PATENT SECURITY AGREEMENTS. Recorded Sep 3, 2020
From: WELLS FARGO, NATIONAL BANK ASSOCIATION
To: U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION
Reel/Frame 053703/0367 →
ASSIGNMENT OF PATENT SECURITY AGREEMENTS Recorded Oct 1, 2019
From: WELLS FARGO BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION
To: U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION
Reel/Frame 050600/0314 →
SECURITY INTEREST Recorded May 21, 2019
From: HUGHES NETWORK SYSTEMS, LLC
To: WELLS FARGO BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION - AS COLLATERAL AGENT
Reel/Frame 049239/0675 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Mar 11, 2019
From: SETHI, YOGESH
To: HUGHES NETWORK SYSTEMS, LLC
Reel/Frame 048561/0317 →