BURDEN SHARING IN SATELLITE COMMUNICATION

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a system and a method for rain fade burden sharing in a satellite based communication system. SOLUTION: The system can improve a communication link with a particular user by varying the data rate. The data rate can be varied by reducing a coding rate to compensate for low signal quality. In a time multiplexed communication system where multiple users time multiplex the available communication bandwidth, the system can concurrently adjust a time allocated to a user based in part on the coding rate. The time allocated to a user can be increased for decreased coding rates in order to maintain a substantially stable symbol rate to the user for each time multiplex cycle of users. COPYRIGHT: (C)2011,JPO&INPIT