Patent ID: 11876601
Assignee: LYNK GLOBAL, INC.
Field: Telecommunications (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 0:
1. A method for assigning communication channels to be used for transmitting one or more signals between a multiple-access base station and one or more terrestrial mobile stations of a plurality of terrestrial mobile stations, wherein the multiple-access base station comprises one or more transceivers for handling communication with the one or more terrestrial mobile stations, the method comprising:
receiving, at the multiple-access base station, a first signal transmitted by a first terrestrial mobile station of the plurality of terrestrial mobile stations;
determining a first Doppler shift due to a first relative motion between the multiple-access base station and the first terrestrial mobile station;
determining a first distance between the multiple-access base station and the first terrestrial mobile station;
assigning, to the first terrestrial mobile station, a first communication channel of the one or more of communication channels in a first channel block of a plurality of communication channel blocks, wherein assigning is based, at least in part, on the first Doppler shift and the first distance;
receiving, at the multiple-access base station, a second signal transmitted by a second terrestrial mobile station of the plurality of terrestrial mobile stations;
determining a second Doppler shift due to a second relative motion between the multiple-access base station and the second terrestrial mobile station;
determining a second distance between the multiple-access base station and the second terrestrial mobile station; and
assigning, to the second terrestrial mobile station, a second communication channel of the one or more of communication channels in a second channel block of the plurality of communication channel blocks, wherein assigning is based, at least in part, on the second Doppler shift and the second distance;
wherein the first communication channel and second communication channel are further assigned in order of an increasing signal frequency, such that a first uplink signal transmitted from the first terrestrial mobile station to the multiple-access base station will shift apart in signal frequency from a second uplink signal transmitted from the second terrestrial mobile station to the multiple-access base station between transmission by the first terrestrial mobile station and second terrestrial mobile station and being received by the multiple-access base station.