Development and performance evaluation of highly efficient retransmission scheme for high‐speed data transfer via satellite

Abstract

AbstractSatellite communication has the following problems. The propagation delay is larger than in the terrestrial channel. When the carrier frequency exceeds 10 GHz, the bit‐error rate tends to increase due to the effect of rain and snow, which degrades the transmission efficiency. To cope with such problems, a highly efficient error control protocol has been proposed to prevent the degradation of the transmission efficiency.This paper describes a new large‐capacity, highly efficient retransmission scheme for satellite communication (extended SREJ scheme), which was devised considering the compatibility to the terrestrial network. The method is based on the SREJ (selective reject) scheme, which is specified in the HDLC (high‐level data link control) protocol, employed widely in terrestrial data transmission. To evaluate quantitatively REJ, SREJ and extended SREJ schemes, a satellite communication control equipment was developed.The result of the data transmission experiment is described in detail, indicating that the extended SREJ scheme is efficient. Then, through the discussion of practical usefulness, it is shown that the extended SREJ scheme has no problem from the viewpoint of the number of buffers in transmitting and receiving stations. Furthermore, to realize the efficient processing as far as possible, even if the bit‐error rate is higher than 1.0 × 10−4, the extended SREJ/REJ scheme is discussed by combining the proposed scheme with the REJ scheme.