FIELD: physics, radio.
SUBSTANCE: invention relates to radio communication and specifically to communication with methods of allocating radio resources for return channels in interactive access multimedia satellite networks. The result is achieved due to that, streams of sources of multimedia traffic of each satellite interactive terminal are ranked into service class queues. Each queue is assigned a specific weight coefficient. Data packets transmitted by the terminal are fragmented in the buffer into data blocks of fixed volume. Satellite interactive terminals perform dynamic reservation of time slots on duration of the next super frame by sending requests containing information on the predicted statistical distribution of the number of data blocks in buffer queues of the serviced service classes. The central station allocates time slots to each satellite interactive terminal through a formalised procedure which minimises the integral function of quality of service of the multimedia traffic based on introduction of conditional fines for non-servicing of data blocks of active service class queues.
EFFECT: cutting on time spent on the procedure for allocating time slots and increasing efficiency of using transmission capacity resources of an interactive access multimedia satellite communication network.
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