A QUEUING ANALYSIS OF THE TRAFFIC HANDLING CAPABILITY OF A SATELLITE GROUND TERMINAL.

Abstract

This report covers investigation carried out to determine the traffic-handling capability of both a manually operated satellite terminal, providing low data rate teletype, and a hypothetical automatically controlled terminal capable of handling data at 2400 bit/sec. Specifically, the signalling procedure which governs acquisition (call and confirmation) of a terminal in a two-terminal link was timed for a manually operated terminal. This signalling procedure time can be interpreted as an extension of the message transmit time (which corresponds to message length, for constant data rate) and, as such, is treated as a queuing problem. For comparison, a queuing analysis is also conducted for a hypothetical class of terminals having a higher data rate and programmed signalling procedure. (Author)

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Oct 01, 1967
Accession Number
AD0822770

Entities

People

  • Gordon F. Negus
  • Peter B. Morris

Organizations

  • Rome Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acquisition
  • Artificial Satellites
  • Data Rate
  • Terminals

Readers

  • Computer Networking
  • Computer Science/Computer Engineering/Data Science/Digital Signal Processing.
  • Theoretical Analysis.

Technology Areas

  • Space
  • Space - Satellites