A CASE STUDY IN

USER CAPACITY PLANNING

FOR LOW EARTH ORBIT
COMMUNICATION SATELLITE

MAULANA ALI ARIFIN

(maulana.ali@lapan.go.id)
NOVA MARAS NURUL KHAMSAH
(nova.maras@lapan.go.id)
INTRODUCTION

Many rural areas

The need of communication is increasing
Terrestrial networks to cover all Indonesia will need enormous cost
 PURPOSE
Design a LEO communication satellite to compliment terrestrial network in rural
area

Target user, business sector in rural areas:

• Tourism
• Hotel
• etc
 METHODOLOGY
User capacity planning by throughput
• Throughput per session
𝑇ℎ𝑟𝑜𝑢𝑔ℎ𝑝𝑢𝑡
= 𝐵𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑒𝑟 𝑅𝑎𝑡𝑒 × 𝑃𝑃𝑃 𝑆𝑒𝑠𝑠𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑇𝑖𝑚𝑒 × 𝑃𝑃𝑃 𝑆𝑒𝑠𝑠𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝐷𝑢𝑡𝑦 𝑅𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜
𝑆𝑒𝑠𝑠𝑖𝑜𝑛
1
×
1 − 𝐵𝐿𝐸𝑅
• Single user throughput
𝑇ℎ𝑟𝑜𝑢𝑔ℎ𝑝𝑢𝑡
∑ 𝑥 𝐵𝐻𝑆𝐴 𝑥 𝑃𝑒𝑛𝑒𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑅𝑎𝑡𝑒 𝑥 1 + 𝑃𝑒𝑎𝑘 𝐴𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑎𝑔𝑒 𝑅𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜
𝑆𝑒𝑠𝑠𝑖𝑜𝑛
𝑆𝑈𝑇 =
3600
ANALYSIS RESULT

Network Throughput Comparison

60,000
50,000
40,000
30,000
20,000
10,000
-
Telesat Proposed Design of
Communication Satellite
Uplink (Kbps) Downlink (Kbps)
 CONCLUSION

• The objective of this work was to calculate and analyze user

capacity for proposed design of communication satellite.
• From the calculation, the total users that can be served by
proposed communications satellite is lower than TELESAT LEO
where the total user of proposed communication satellite is
only 11% to 12% of the total user of TELESAT LEO.
• The proposed design has a good capability in the term of user
capacity which is up to 61% of total needs in Indonesia.