Hughes Network Systems, LLC

Peter Lin

Robert James Torres

Deepak Manohar Arur

Matthew Mario Butehorn

Patrick Stevens

Craig Schweinhart

Daniel Friedman

Mangala Kannan

Ken Burrell

An approach for providing flow control in a radio communication system is disclosed. A request from a non-satellite system specific side of a transport interface is made to a system specific side of the transport interface for a flow control allocation that specifies an amount of data to be stored in a queue of the system specific side of the transport interface. The system specific side supports a signaling function that is based on a transmission characteristic of the radio communication system. The flow control allocation is generated based upon availability of the queue, wherein the destination address is a link layer address of the satellite communication system. This arrangement has particular applicability to a satellite network (e.g., Very Small Aperture Terminal (VSAT) network) that provides data communication services.

Method and system for efficient flow control in a spot beam satellite system

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Peter Lin