{"title":"Can satellites face trends? The case of Web 2.0","authors":"L. Caviglione","doi":"10.1109/IWSSC.2009.5286305","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IWSSC.2009.5286305","url":null,"abstract":"Satellite communication is one of the key technologies for the future Internet development, which nowadays is experiencing a new trend in its usage, especially in the field of Web. However the joint utilization of satellites and “trendy” solutions, e.g., Web 2.0 and Software as a Service (SaaS), poses some issues. In this perspective, the contribution of this work is twofold: i) to analyze and introduce new usage patterns imposed by the Web 2.0 phenomena and ii) to study the impact of satellite links in such environments. In addition, an analysis of the main behaviors (both of web browsers and traffic) in the scenario where satellites and Web 2.0 applications are mixed is also provided.","PeriodicalId":137431,"journal":{"name":"2009 International Workshop on Satellite and Space Communications","volume":"107 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-10-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125051527","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Iterative decodable block codes for high-speed free space optical communication","authors":"Yongxiong Ren, A. Dang, Hong Guo","doi":"10.1109/IWSSC.2009.5286398","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IWSSC.2009.5286398","url":null,"abstract":"This paper investigates the performance of high-rate block codes in log-normal fading atmospheric channel based on the discussion of channel characteristics. Several block codes are under study, especially two kinds of iterative decoding codes with high code rate and low encoder/decoder complexity: Hamming-based TPC codes and block circulant based LDPC codes. The code types selection and iterative decoding algorithms for the two codes are discussed. The performance of several codes under different turbulence strength are also reported. Both TPC and LDPC codes can achieve impressive coding gain based on theoretical analysis and extensive computer simulation. In term of superior property in coding gain, error floor effect and hardware implementation, we recommend TPCs as FEC scheme for FSO system.","PeriodicalId":137431,"journal":{"name":"2009 International Workshop on Satellite and Space Communications","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-10-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128438824","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Software Defined Phased Array Antenna architecture and design approach","authors":"P. Tosovsky","doi":"10.1109/IWSSC.2009.5286400","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IWSSC.2009.5286400","url":null,"abstract":"Software Defined Radio concept brought high degree of flexibility to radio communication links. The main idea of the concept is to carry most of signal processing to the digital domain where the processing can be driven by software. The same approach can be used for Software Defined Array Antenna. Every Antenna element of the array is equipped by analog-todigital conversion unit which samples a received signal. The Antenna element is constructed as a dual polarization unit; both polarization planes are sampled separately to the I/Q plane vector representation. The data are collected via digital bus by a central unit where the data are processed by adaptive beamforming and demodulation algorithm to maximize quality of desired signal. This architecture has several advantages; interconnection bus is purely digital (easier wiring design), mutual RF coupling between the Antenna units (typically via reference oscillator wiring) is effectively suppressed and the Antenna array is fully deployable without any extra effort. In connection with both polarization planes sampling, we obtain the receiver which is capable to receive signal with any polarization (include elliptical), placed to random part of spectrum within processed bandwidth and modulated by arbitrary type of modulation with maximum signal to noise ratio.","PeriodicalId":137431,"journal":{"name":"2009 International Workshop on Satellite and Space Communications","volume":"74 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-10-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131737681","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"IEEE802.15.4 Wireless Sensor Network in Mars exploration scenario","authors":"E. Del Re, Renato Pucci, L. Ronga","doi":"10.1109/IWSSC.2009.5286366","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IWSSC.2009.5286366","url":null,"abstract":"The IEEE 802.15.4 standard (ZigBee) provides low cost and low power connectivity for Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) devices that need a monthly or years duration of battery, with low DataRate and small dimensions. All such features fit pretty well the requirements of a space mission and for this reason the spatial community is investigating the possibility of using WSN in planetary exploration context, in particular on Mars. After an accurate analysis of the past missions retrieved data, we individuate the most common propagation contexts on Mars and we evaluate the performance of an IEEE802.15.4 standard based sensor network working at 2.4GHz for that contexts. In order to evaluate the applicability of the IEEE 802.15.4 standard to planetary exploration context, a characterization of the most common five frequency channel is obtained taking into account all the Martian geomorphologic, atmospheric and eolian features. Considering such frequency channels, thanks to Simulink and OMNET++ simulation models, network performances like Bit Error Rate (BER), Symbol Error Rate (SER) and Throughput are obtained. The possibility to implement a packet level coding is also investigated.","PeriodicalId":137431,"journal":{"name":"2009 International Workshop on Satellite and Space Communications","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-10-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130337460","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Optical wireless links in future space communications with high data rate demands","authors":"P. Brandl, T. Plank, E. Leitgeb","doi":"10.1109/IWSSC.2009.5286359","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IWSSC.2009.5286359","url":null,"abstract":"The use of optical communication links is a growing and promising technology, with applications spreading over many areas of telecommunication. This paper will present the results of an investigation on interplanetary communication requirements for future space mission which was done under an ESA contract and SatNEx II. From the user point of view, the technology behind the data transmission is irrelevant. However, when applying optical wireless links, high data rates could be realized with less effort compared to RF links. It should be clarified how optical communication links can provide well working solutions for a growing demand on data rates. Moreover, some first system designs with corresponding link budget calculations were performed.","PeriodicalId":137431,"journal":{"name":"2009 International Workshop on Satellite and Space Communications","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-10-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132001923","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Optimum bit-mapping of TCH codes","authors":"F. Cercas, J. C. Silva, N. Souto, R. Dinis","doi":"10.1109/IWSSC.2009.5286417","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IWSSC.2009.5286417","url":null,"abstract":"Recent studies have determined the performance of TCH(n,k) (Tomlinson, Cercas, Hughes) codes in different environments, namely for mobile satellite channels for which TCH codes of small length n (e.g. 16) present some advantages when compared with TCH codes of higher length (e.g. 256). However, the correlation characteristics of TCH codes of small length present some peaks that deteriorate its performance. In this paper we present a method to properly bit-map the incoming data bits to the code words so as to minimize this effect. The improvement in performance was obtained by simulation and is compared with previous known results.","PeriodicalId":137431,"journal":{"name":"2009 International Workshop on Satellite and Space Communications","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-10-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133778991","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Evaluation of TCP performance over emulated DVB-RCS scenario with multiple RCSTs","authors":"F. Belli, M. Luglio, C. Roseti, F. Zampognaro","doi":"10.1109/IWSSC.2009.5286320","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IWSSC.2009.5286320","url":null,"abstract":"This paper analyses performance of competing TCP connections when running over different Return Channel Satellite Terminals (RCSTs) and competing for DVB-RCS return link bandwidth through DAMA mechanisms. A test campaign has been performed over a Linux-based satellite emulator supporting a multi-RCST configuration in a star-based architecture, with the main goal to evaluate TCP behavior in terms of both capacity utilization and fairness. In the proposed communication scenario, TCP performance relates on the joint effect of two nested control loops: TCP congestion/rate control loop and DAMA bandwidth assignment loop. Various TCP versions have been taken into account: Reno, Vegas, Westwood+, Hybla, Cubic and Noordwijk, a new TCP specifically designed for DVB-RCS point-to-point links. Rate Based Capacity Request (RBDC) has been selected as the access protocol.","PeriodicalId":137431,"journal":{"name":"2009 International Workshop on Satellite and Space Communications","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-10-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115321829","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
N. Andreadou, F. Pavlidou, S. Papaharalabos, P. Mathiopoulos
{"title":"Quasi-Cyclic Low-Density Parity-Check (QC-LDPC) codes for deep space and high data rate applications","authors":"N. Andreadou, F. Pavlidou, S. Papaharalabos, P. Mathiopoulos","doi":"10.1109/IWSSC.2009.5286377","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IWSSC.2009.5286377","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper we investigate and compare the performance of a selected class of Low-Density Parity-Check (LDPC) codes, i.e. Quasi-Cyclic (QC) LDPC codes, against the currently used turbo codes for deep space and high data rate applications. This is useful in future updates of the channel code option used for such applications by the Consultative Committee for Space Data Systems (CCSDS). A wide range of different code rates is examined and the obtained Bit Error Rate (BER) performance versus the Bit Energy to Noise Spectral Density ratio (Eb/N0) is reported. Both low and high code rates are being studied, and specifically the 1/2, 1/3, 1/4 and 1/5 as well as the 2/3, 3/4 and 4/5 code rates are taken under consideration. The role of the iteration rounds in the decoding procedure of LDPC codes is also examined showing that QC-LDPC codes outperform the currently used CCSDS turbo codes. Another advantage of QC-LDPC codes is their simple encoding procedure, which reduces the encoding complexity. Since deep space applications are considered, the signals are transmitted over the Additive White Gaussian Noise (AWGN) channel, with the specific block size of 7136 bits.","PeriodicalId":137431,"journal":{"name":"2009 International Workshop on Satellite and Space Communications","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-10-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114690751","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
M. Noisternig, B. Collini-Nocker, P. Pillai, L. Liang, H. Cruickshank
{"title":"Transmitter and receiver processing specification for a unified ULE security extension","authors":"M. Noisternig, B. Collini-Nocker, P. Pillai, L. Liang, H. Cruickshank","doi":"10.1109/IWSSC.2009.5286401","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IWSSC.2009.5286401","url":null,"abstract":"The Unidirectional Lightweight Encapsulation (ULE) protocol has been defined for efficient transport of IPv4/6 and other protocols over the MPEG-2 Transport Stream (TS). The proliferation of this technology on the mass market may benefit from a security solution protecting against potential threats such as eavesdropping, as well as masquerading, modification of messages, and replay attacks, similar to 802.11 security. A unified ULE security extension header format has been proposed previously by the authors. This paper discusses in detail the processing required for transmitters and receivers supporting this security extension for ULE.","PeriodicalId":137431,"journal":{"name":"2009 International Workshop on Satellite and Space Communications","volume":"32 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-10-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124921620","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Special session 3 (room 18) security","authors":"P. Pillai, H. Cruickshank","doi":"10.1109/IWSSC.2009.5286411","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IWSSC.2009.5286411","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":137431,"journal":{"name":"2009 International Workshop on Satellite and Space Communications","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-10-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128777566","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}