REAL-TIME SATELLITE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM USING SEPARATE CONTROL AND DATA TRANSMISSION PATHS

摘要

A control communication method includes synchronizing a timing in a central earth station (4) and a plurality of remote earth stations (6) such that a predetermined control time period having a plurality of time slots is synchronized among the central earth station and the remote earth stations. The control time period is not longer than a substantially real-time response time period for the remote stations.