Patent ID: 8675545

Claim:
A method for allocating traffic resources in a system where satellite communication with a plurality of mobile earth stations is performed using a plurality of beams, each beam corresponding to a cell, the method comprising: dividing the plurality of beams into a plurality of groups of beams, each group including at least two beams; and for each of the plurality of groups: detecting a data transmission rate required for each beam of the group by collecting traffic resource request information from ones of the plurality of mobile earth stations placed in the cell corresponding to said each beam; selecting, from the group, a first beam having a required data transmission rate that is higher than those of the other beams by more than a preset value, based on the detected required data transmission rates of the beams of the group; and allocating more diffusion codes that constitute the traffic resources for data transmission to the first beam than to the other beams of the group.