In this paper, we start with a bibliographic search for slot allocation methods in static MF-TDMA satellite systems, followed by a multi-frequency extension of previous work that describes a prediction-based scheduling mechanism for joint WiMAX/satellite environments. The proposed mechanism consists of three parts. The first part requests satellite bandwidth based on an estimation of the needs of the WiMAX network at the time the bandwidth is granted, the second part allocates bandwidth on the satellite channel, while the third distributes it to the WiMAX users. Simulation results show improved performance of slot allocation in MF-TDMA, especially in terms of throughput and delay.
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