Abstract
AbstractUntil 1997, the power flux density (pfd) limits applicable to fixed satellite service (FSS) satellite transmitters to protect fixed service (FS) receivers operating in the same frequency band were those in Article 21 of the radio regulations. They were developed assuming that potentially interfering satellites in the FSS would only operate in the GSO. The need to revise these limits to allow for the protection of FS receivers from interference generated by non‐geostationary satellites has led to several studies, most of them based on the non‐realistic assumption that every visible satellite in a NGSO constellation produces the maximum allowed pfd level at the FS receive station location. To provide a quantitative indication of how pessimistic this assumption is, this paper considers a more realistic model in which the pfd entries reaching a given FS receiver location are characterized by statistically independent random variables. The probability density functions of these random variables depend on the operational characteristics of the NGSO network. The obtained results have also shown the need to consider some of the operational characteristics of NGSO satellite networks when evaluating the interference produced by their satellites. If these operational characteristics are not taken into account in the calculations, higher values of interference, that do not reflect the real interference environment, are obtained. Copyright © 2002 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
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