NASA currently provides communication support to over 100 satellite missions, and the agency is driving developments in Ka-band communications and network management automation to support additional future missions. At Ka-band frequencies, rain can degrade a communication link by more than 10 dB, which may be mitigated by agile scheduling and data rate control. We present a weather forecasting module for Ka-band communications that is intended to be used in an autonomous network management service that employs machine-to-machine scheduling systems for dynamic user access opportunities. Our forecasting module (NIMBUS) runs on AWS Cloud, consumes the freely and publicly available NOAA MRMS precipitation rate dataset (1km x 1km x 2-min), produces 30-minute Nowcasts using the pySTEPS algorithm, and publishes high-level ground station specific link quality predictions. We evaluate two potential NIMBUS outputs, a binary classifier that predicts rain attenuation greater than 3 dB and a rain attenuation estimator, and we backtest these outputs using one year of power measurement data collected from observations of the geostationary ANIK F2 satellite’s Ka-band beacon. We report, with a 30-minute lead time, a binary classifier accuracy of 84% and an estimator RMSE of 1.67 dB. Additionally, we discuss how the NIMBUS module could be incorporated into a user-initiated service framework to enable weather-aware scheduling and reconfiguration. Integrating NIMBUS into a user-initiated service framework provides an alternative to static link budget padding based on a statistical long-term rain exceedance rate attenuation, and leverages advances in software defined radio, autonomous machine-to-machine scheduling, and precipitation Nowcasting.


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    Titel :

    Enhancing Autonomous Satellite Communication Systems with Weather-Aware Scheduling and Reconfiguration


    Beteiligte:
    Smith, Aaron (Autor:in) / Brown, Elmer Weston (Autor:in) / Gannon, Adam (Autor:in) / Merat, Francis (Autor:in)


    Erscheinungsdatum :

    2023-06-20


    Format / Umfang :

    2923309 byte




    Medientyp :

    Aufsatz (Konferenz)


    Format :

    Elektronische Ressource


    Sprache :

    Englisch




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