| 摘要 |
A method is provided for enabling communications between one or more satellites and a plurality of terminals wherein the plurality of terminals are divided into M groups of terminals and wherein the method comprising: forwarding a plurality of communication frames in a forward link, wherein said plurality of frames are divided into N sub-frames, and wherein traffic being carried along the forward link by each of the N sub- frames serves one or more groups of terminals associated with a respective satellite, and assigning, by a satellite return link scheduler, a respective capacity of the return link for at least one of the one or more groups of terminals, wherein the assignment takes into account which of the sub-frames is associated with that at least one group of the terminals. |
