Method of regulation of power in a network of a telecommunications satellite offering a visibility of at least two satellites

摘要

The method involves regulating the power of transmission between two stations in a satellite telecommunications network, with a call signal being selectively transmitted from the first station to the second station either on different propagation paths via N respective satellites in the form of N combined second signals by the second station. The method comprises setting, for each of N channels, an isolated transmit power level command signal. When it commands the power at which the first station transmits the first isolated signal in each channel the quality level of the corresponding isolated second signal received by the second station is equal to a reference quality level. For all of the N channels, the method involve regulating N combined transmit power level command signals such that when they command the levels at which the first station respectively transmits the N combined first signals on the N channels, the quality level of the global received signal formed from the N combined second signals is equal to the reference quality level. If the isolated signal has the minimal level and the minimal level is also less than a maximum tolerated isolated signal command level, the minimum level isolated command signal is selected to control the power with which the first station transmits the isolated first signal in the corresponding channel. Otherwise, the N combined signals are selected to control the power with which the first station transmits the respective combined first signals on the N channels.