Patent ID: 8116265
Filing Date: 2012-02-14
Classification: H04B,H04H,H04L

Abstract:
1. A method of allocating a terminal to a MODCOD (modulation and coding pair) comprising: (a) performing a first polling of a telemetry of good and bad pilot frames of alternating MODCODs; (b) storing a first MODCOD frame statistics based on the first polling; (c) performing a second polling of the telemetry of good and bad pilot frames of alternating MODCODs; (d) storing a second MODCOD frame statistics based on the second polling; (e) comparing the first and second stored MODCOD frame statistics to determine whether the compared statistics are identical; (f) if the first and second stored MODCOD frame statistics are not identical, repeating steps (a)-(e) until a stored first and second MODCOD frame statistics are identical; (g) screening the MODCOD frame statistics to determine a least robust MODCOD without bad frames when first and second stored MODCOD frame statistics are identical; and (h) choosing the determined least robust MODCOD in (g) for making MODCOD decisions.