@conference {698, title = {Statistical Cross Layer Adaptation in Fast Fading Mobile Satellite Channels}, booktitle = {Globecom 2013 - Symposium on Selected Areas in Communications (GC13 SAC)}, year = {2013}, address = {Atlanta, USA}, abstract = {

Link adaptation in mobile satellite channels is difficult because of the large propagation delays, the frequent signal blockage and the variation of the channel statistics. In this paper, we propose a cross-layer link adaptation strategy that exploits statistical, long-term CSI to increase the throughput when some retransmissions are available; this increase is obtained while meeting a target outage probability constraint. Our strategy takes as inputs the estimated packet error rates of the available modulation and coding schemes (MCS) and their rates; as an output, it returns the optimum sequence of MCS to be used. Results will also show that simple information acquisition strategies can still provide very good results.

}, keywords = {dynacs, fast fading channels, link adaptation, mobile satellite, satcom}, doi = {10.1109/GLOCOM.2013.6831502}, author = {Alberto Rico-Alvari{\~n}o and J. Arnau and C. Mosquera} }