Modeling and Optimizing Space Networks for Improved Communication Capacity.
dc.contributor.author | Spangelo, Sara C. | en_US |
dc.date.accessioned | 2013-06-12T14:16:13Z | |
dc.date.available | NO_RESTRICTION | en_US |
dc.date.available | 2013-06-12T14:16:13Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2013 | en_US |
dc.date.submitted | 2013 | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/97912 | |
dc.description.abstract | There are a growing number of individual and constellation small-satellite missions seeking to download large quantities of science, observation, and surveillance data. The existing ground station infrastructure to support these missions constrains the potential data throughput because the stations are low-cost, are not always available because they are independently owned and operated, and their ability to collect data is often inefficient. The constraints of the small satellite form factor (e.g. mass, size, power) coupled with the ground network limitations lead to significant operational and communication scheduling challenges. Faced with these challenges, our goal is to maximize capacity, defined as the amount of data that is successfully downloaded from space to ground communication nodes. In this thesis, we develop models, tools, and optimization algorithms for spacecraft and ground network operations. First, we develop an analytical modeling framework and a high-fidelity simulation environment that capture the interaction of on-board satellite energy and data dynamics, ground stations, and the external space environment. Second, we perform capacity-based assessments to identify excess and deficient resources for comparison to mission-specific requirements. Third, we formulate and solve communication scheduling problems that maximize communication capacity for a satellite downloading to a network of globally and functionally heterogeneous ground stations. Numeric examples demonstrate the applicability of the models and tools to assess and optimize real-world existing and upcoming small satellite mission scenarios that communicate to global ground station networks as well as generic communication scheduling problem instances. We study properties of optimal satellite communication schedules and sensitivity of communication capacity to various deterministic and stochastic satellite vehicle and network parameters. The models, tools, and optimization techniques we develop lay the ground work for our larger goals: optimal satellite vehicle design and autonomous real-time operational scheduling of heterogeneous satellite missions and ground station networks. | en_US |
dc.language.iso | en_US | en_US |
dc.subject | Small Spacecraft | en_US |
dc.subject | Ground Networks | en_US |
dc.subject | Modeling Framework | en_US |
dc.subject | Scheduling Optimization | en_US |
dc.subject | Model-based Systems Engineering | en_US |
dc.subject | Simulation Environment | en_US |
dc.title | Modeling and Optimizing Space Networks for Improved Communication Capacity. | en_US |
dc.type | Thesis | en_US |
dc.description.thesisdegreename | PhD | en_US |
dc.description.thesisdegreediscipline | Aerospace Engineering | en_US |
dc.description.thesisdegreegrantor | University of Michigan, Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studies | en_US |
dc.contributor.committeemember | Cutler, James W. | en_US |
dc.contributor.committeemember | Cohn, Amy Ellen | en_US |
dc.contributor.committeemember | Atkins, Ella Marie | en_US |
dc.contributor.committeemember | Bernstein, Dennis S. | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbsecondlevel | Aerospace Engineering | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbtoplevel | Engineering | en_US |
dc.description.bitstreamurl | http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/97912/1/saracs_1.pdf | |
dc.owningcollname | Dissertations and Theses (Ph.D. and Master's) |
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