%0 Conference Paper %B Globecom 2013 - Symposium on Selected Areas in Communications (GC13 SAC) %D 2013 %T Statistical Cross Layer Adaptation in Fast Fading Mobile Satellite Channels %A Alberto Rico-Alvariño %A J. Arnau %A C. Mosquera %K dynacs %K fast fading channels %K link adaptation %K mobile satellite %K satcom %X

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.

%B Globecom 2013 - Symposium on Selected Areas in Communications (GC13 SAC) %C Atlanta, USA %G eng %R 10.1109/GLOCOM.2013.6831502