METHODS OF OPTIMIZING SATELLITE COMMUNICATIONS NETWORKS.

Abstract

This report covers an investigation of methods for optimizing operation of a communications network which uses a single, hard-limiting, multiple access satellite as a relay on all links, and which may use either frequency division, time-division or spread-spectrum multiple access techniques. Alternative methods based on dynamic programming techniques and on Lagrange multiplier analysis have been developed for each multiple access technique, and have been programmed in FORTRAN 4. (Author)

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 01, 1968
Accession Number
AD0831815

Entities

People

  • George E. Bowden
  • Robert C Moore
  • William R. Minty

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Artificial Satellites
  • Communication Systems
  • Computer Programming
  • Dynamic Programming
  • Frequency
  • Multiple Access
  • Networks
  • Satellite Communications
  • Space Systems
  • Spacecraft
  • Spectra
  • Spread Spectrum
  • Vehicles

Readers

  • Operations Research
  • Radio communications and signal processing.

Technology Areas

  • Space
  • Space - Satellites