Section : Technical Performance Requirements

Technical Performance Requirements

Parameter Explanation Satellite Requirement
Peak data rate Maximum achievable channel data rate under ideal conditions 70 Mbit/s (DL)
2 Mbit/s (UL)
User experienced data rate Data rate maintained for 95% of the time 1 Mbit/s (DL)
100 kbit/s (UL)
Peak spectral efficiency Number of bits of data per Hz in a band 3 bit/s/Hz (DL)
1.5 bit/s/Hz (UL)
Average spectral efficiency Average channel spectral efficiency 0.5 bit/s/Hz (DL)
0.1 bit/s/Hz (UL)
5th percentile user spectral efficiency 5% point of the CDF of the number of correctly received bits, divided by the channel bandwidth 0.03 bit/s/Hz (DL)
0.003 bit/s/Hz (UL)
User plane latency The time required for a packet to traverse the network from a source to a destination 10 ms
Control plane latency Transition time from idle state to active state 40 ms
Mobility Maximum moving speed allowed to maintain service transmission and QoS requirements 250 km/h
Connection density Total amount of connected MTD devices per unit area 500/km²
Area traffic capacity Overall traffic in a coverage area (Downlink / Uplink) 8 kbit/s/km² (DL)
1.5 kbit/s/km² (UL)
Reliability Capability of transmitting traffic with high success probability 1-10⁻³