US 11,722,215 B1
Achieving higher data rate on NB-IoT over satellite
Piya Seth Bhaskar, North Potomac, MD (US); Xiangdong Liu, Boyds, MD (US); Muthuthamby Sreetharan, Bethesda, MD (US); and Dilip Shyamsundar Gokhale, Germantown, MD (US)
Assigned to LOCKHEED MARTIN CORPORATION, Bethesda, MD (US)
Filed by LOCKHEED MARTIN CORPORATION, Bethesda, MD (US)
Filed on Sep. 28, 2020, as Appl. No. 17/35,566.
Int. Cl. H04W 56/00 (2009.01); H04B 7/185 (2006.01); H04W 4/80 (2018.01); H04L 1/00 (2006.01); H04W 80/08 (2009.01); H04W 80/02 (2009.01); H04W 76/27 (2018.01)
CPC H04B 7/18576 (2013.01) [H04B 7/18539 (2013.01); H04L 1/0003 (2013.01); H04W 4/80 (2018.02); H04W 76/27 (2018.02); H04W 80/02 (2013.01); H04W 80/08 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A communication system, comprising:
a satellite base station configured to communicate with a satellite, the satellite base station comprising:
a satellite baseband controller,
one or more satellite modems, and
a control processor operatively coupled to the satellite baseband controller and the one or more satellite modems, the control processor configured to:
provide a message to a plurality of terminal devices in communication with the satellite,
receive, based on the message, store a subset of the plurality of terminal devices that support carrier aggregation, and
responsive to data transfer increasing or decreasing from an initial data transfer to a terminal device of the subset of terminal devices, assigning or removing, respectively, carrier channels provided by the satellite.