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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 20, 2018
Filed:
May. 13, 2017
Applicant:
Thales, Courbevoie, FR;
Inventors:
Assignee:
THALES, Courbevoie, FR;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 36/18 (2009.01); H04B 7/185 (2006.01); H04Q 9/04 (2006.01); H04W 36/02 (2009.01); H04W 88/16 (2009.01); H04W 36/00 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 36/18 (2013.01); H04B 7/1851 (2013.01); H04B 7/18517 (2013.01); H04Q 9/04 (2013.01); H04W 36/023 (2013.01); H04W 36/0016 (2013.01); H04W 36/0055 (2013.01); H04W 88/16 (2013.01);
Abstract
A soft handover method with gateway site diversity between a first nominal gateway to a relay satellite of a space telecommunication system and a second redundant gateway to the same satellite comprises a soft handover preparation phase, and a soft handover execution phase that are executed in succession. During the execution phase, a first switchover of the traffic at the ground segment level to the second redundant gateway, and a second switchover at the level of the segment on board the satellite between a first nominal access link of the first nominal gateway and a second redundant access link of the second redundant gateway are finely synchronized.