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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 29, 2025
Filed:
Aug. 31, 2023
Space Exploration Technologies Corp., Hawthorne, CA (US);
Jayasuryan V. Iyer, Redmond, WA (US);
Khasim Shaheed Shaik Mahammad, Milpitas, CA (US);
Yashodhan Dandekar, Cupertino, CA (US);
Ramakrishna Akella, San Diego, CA (US);
Chen Chen, Irvine, CA (US);
Phillip E. Barber, Sammamish, WA (US);
Peter J. Worters, San Carlos, CA (US);
Space Exploration Technologies Corp., Hawthorne, CA (US);
Abstract
A method of operating an uplink scheduler as part of a medium access control scheduler on a satellite includes selecting, from a plurality of user terminals, a first number of zero-bandwidth request user terminals from the plurality of user terminals, selecting, from the plurality of user terminals, a second number of non-zero-bandwidth request user terminals from the plurality of user terminals, binning the second number of non-zero-bandwidth request user terminals into a plurality of bins based on a respective bandwidth requirement for each non-zero-bandwidth request user terminal and based on a minimum user terminal grant and allocating, according to a grant allocation algorithm, a respective grant of radio resources in an uplink frame to each user terminal of the plurality of user terminals into a respective bin of the plurality of bins in an order associated with increasing bandwidth needs. A downlink scheduler is also disclosed.