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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 16, 2019
Filed:
Sep. 21, 2016
Qualcomm Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);
Venkatraman Rajagopalan, San Diego, CA (US);
Jelena Damnjanovic, Del Mar, CA (US);
Qiang Wu, San Diego, CA (US);
QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);
Abstract
A method and apparatus for operating a satellite access network (SAN) of a satellite communication system to schedule communications with a user terminal. In some aspects, the SAN may provision a communication frame, for the user terminal, into a number of forward-link (FL) subframes and a different number of reverse-link (RL) subframes. The SAN then transmits the FL subframes to the user terminal via a forward link of the satellite communication system, and subsequently receives the RL subframes from the user terminal via a reverse link of the satellite communication system.