Patent ID: 8095066

Claim:
A method of optimizing resources used in telecommunications carried out via an onboard segment, formed by a satellite or by an aircraft, between stations of a terrestrial segment comprising at least one modem, said method comprising: expressing a difference in consumption E dB between the consumption of onboard bandwidth and the consumption of onboard power as a function of the following terms: a quality indicator QaF′ depending on the antenna system, onboard and on the ground, and on conditions of propagation and interference of the medium, an informational term ℑ dB depending on modem parameters, a term K′ depending on onboard parameters including the maximum incoming flux density and the bandwidth, a corrective term C dB characterizing the consumption of onboard power attributable to the upward noise which is amplified and transposed on board; and modifying at least one of said QaF′, K′, ℑ dB in order to tend toward a cancellation of an absolute value of the term expressed in a logarithmic scale E dB .