BACKWARD COMPATIBLE PHYSICAL LAYER AND SIGNALING FOR SATELLITE COMMUNICATION WITH MCS BASED INDICATION OF THE BURST FORMAT

• Main Authors: LUO, Jianxia, RAVISHANKAR, Channasandra, JONG, James J, WHITMARSH, William, VALLE, Pablo, BENAMMAR, Nassir, GURUMANI, Santharam
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; French; German
• Published: 16.10.2024
• Subjects: ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE; ELECTRICITY; TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHICCOMMUNICATION; WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS NETWORKS

A method for communicating with a legacy terminal supporting a legacy air interface and a new terminal supporting a next generation air interface including: assigning a same carrier to the legacy terminal and the new terminal; receiving a terminal identifier and an optional payload for transmission at a MAC/RLC layer; determining if the terminal identifier is associated with the legacy terminal or the new terminal; composing, based on the determining, a burst header; formatting, a burst including the burst header and the optional payload; and transmitting the burst. In the method, the burst header is set to one of the one or more valid burst headers when the burst is associated with the legacy terminal, and the burst header is set to one of the one or more undefined burst headers when the burst is associated with the new terminal.