Future functionalities for communication handler

[GabrieleMeoni]

Features

These are the basic features to implement in the future to improve the communication handler #4 .

• Modelling different communication technologies (optical, radio)
• Modelling multiple communication bands
• Modelling finite transmission and receiving radiation diagrams (TBD)
• Checking if the time is the same for all the actors
• Handling scenarios where multiple actors A,B wants to communicate with the same actor C
• Modelling communications disconnections and loss of packets

Advanced Features

These are advanced features for even better modelling of #4 . Nice to have.

• Modelling different modulations (this affects the number of bits that you averagely lose and the effective bandwidth that you can use)
• Modelling Adaptive Modulations

[GabrieleMeoni]

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0094576511003742: section 3.1.3 models the relationship between transmitting power, satellite distances and maximum expected bit-rate (assuming BPSK). It also gives you the equation to estimate the consequent bit-error-rate.