{"title":"5G resilient backhaul using integrated satellite networks","authors":"S. Watts, Osianoh Glenn Aliu","doi":"10.1109/ASMS-SPSC.2014.6934532","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ASMS-SPSC.2014.6934532","url":null,"abstract":"This paper looks at the implications, benefits and opportunities for integrating satellite links into the Future Internet specifically to provide resilient backhauls in the 5G networks that will emerge. This analysis is based on the study performed under ESA ARTES 1 “Service delivery over integrated satellite and terrestrial networks”, contract 4000106656/12/NL/US. This study considered the integration of satellite networks with the Future Internet and 4G networks. This paper extrapolates this ESA study to providing 5G resilient backhaul links. It identifies a number of operator and user benefits for such integration and shows that modern satellite networks can be readily integrated to support the emerging standards.","PeriodicalId":192172,"journal":{"name":"2014 7th Advanced Satellite Multimedia Systems Conference and the 13th Signal Processing for Space Communications Workshop (ASMS/SPSC)","volume":"34 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-10-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133390958","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}
A. Baroni, A. Michel, M. Pannozzo, D. Zamberlan, M. Andrenacci, Francesco Silvestri
{"title":"Performance assessment of the Smart mAritime saTellite terminal for mUltimedia seRvices and conteNts (SATURN) system","authors":"A. Baroni, A. Michel, M. Pannozzo, D. Zamberlan, M. Andrenacci, Francesco Silvestri","doi":"10.1109/ASMS-SPSC.2014.6934535","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ASMS-SPSC.2014.6934535","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, the main measured performance results of the SATURN (Smart mAritime saTellite terminal for mUltimedia seRvices and conteNts) system are summarized. The SATURN project aimed to design and develop a maritime user terminal for small leisure boats (up to 20m of length). Such a terminal allows navigators for receiving contents through a DVB-SH channel and transmitting small amount of data via an ETSI S-MIM return channel (based on the Enhanced Spread Spectrum protocol) using the S-Band (2 GHz). The system performance has been measured in a real environment, emulating the sea-condition by means of an ad-hoc designed Motion Simulator.","PeriodicalId":192172,"journal":{"name":"2014 7th Advanced Satellite Multimedia Systems Conference and the 13th Signal Processing for Space Communications Workshop (ASMS/SPSC)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-10-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128991354","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":"Robust modem design for satellite communications in emergency scenarios","authors":"E. D. Re, A. Fanfani, S. Morosi, L. Ronga","doi":"10.1109/ASMS-SPSC.2014.6934536","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ASMS-SPSC.2014.6934536","url":null,"abstract":"Aiming at increasing the satellite link performance, advanced modulation techniques have been thoroughly studied. On the other hand, reliable transmission techniques with a low computational overhead are pursued for many applications in critical scenarios such as: control operation of a satellite while it is placed into its orbit, the disposal of a satellite at the end of its life or the deep-space missions. In these specific mission critical scenarios, fast and correct data reception is even more important than high channel capacity. An unknown and fast variable channel state condition, with large Doppler shifts and low available power require incoherent and light computationally modulation techniques. This paper introduces a whole digital implementation of a receiver, based on the Double Differential PSK (DD-PSK) modulation, that is perfectly compliant with these requirements.","PeriodicalId":192172,"journal":{"name":"2014 7th Advanced Satellite Multimedia Systems Conference and the 13th Signal Processing for Space Communications Workshop (ASMS/SPSC)","volume":"76 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-10-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123221555","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":"An energy-efficient solution for packet-based transmissions with QoS constraints in the multibeam satellite downlink","authors":"R. Andreotti, F. Giannetti, M. Luise","doi":"10.1109/ASMS-SPSC.2014.6934572","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ASMS-SPSC.2014.6934572","url":null,"abstract":"This paper tackles the issue of boosting the capacity of xDSL networks in the presence of geographical gaps. An effective approach for such a kind of operating scenarios consists in exploiting the downlink of either legacy broadcast or advanced multibeam satellites for the delivering of packed-based traffic. This can be done by resorting to the data link layer protocol named Generic Stream Encapsulation which enables the transport of IP traffic (or any other packet oriented protocol) over the DVB-S2 uni-directional physical layer link. The solution presented in this paper consists first in the derivation of an adaptive coding and modulation (ACM) scheme for such an IP over DVB-S2 system, aimed at maximizing the “goodput” (GP), i.e., the offered layer-3 data rate, net of encapsulation overhead. To this aim, the look-up table for ACM is numerically derived by associating to any signal-to-noise-plus-interference ratio of the satellite downlink, the pair “modulation order/coding rate” yielding the highest value of GP. Then, in case of multibeam coverage, in order to manage the co-channel interference arising from beams exploiting the same band, an adaptive power control is also proposed. The goal of the latter is to maximize the energy-efficiency of the downlink satellite transmission while guaranteeing a given quality-of-service over each link in terms of minimum-GP constraint.","PeriodicalId":192172,"journal":{"name":"2014 7th Advanced Satellite Multimedia Systems Conference and the 13th Signal Processing for Space Communications Workshop (ASMS/SPSC)","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-10-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124051987","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":"A novel approach for symbol timing estimation based on the extended zero-crossing property","authors":"W. Gappmair, S. Cioni, G. Corazza, O. Koudelka","doi":"10.1109/ASMS-SPSC.2014.6934524","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ASMS-SPSC.2014.6934524","url":null,"abstract":"Carrier- and data-blind recovery of the symbol timing is of paramount importance in digital receivers, i.e., detailed knowledge about carrier frequency and phase or any pilot sequences is not necessary for proper operation. In this context, feedforward algorithms are particularly useful in packet-oriented systems, where rapid and stable acquisition of the major transmission parameters is essential for subsequent processing stages. In the current paper, we propose a novel approach for blind estimation of the symbol timing, which needs just one or two samples per symbol. The new method is characterized by introducing a second filter in parallel to the receiver matched filter. Under Nyquist conditions, this filter exhibits an impulse response satisfying the extended zero-crossing property, i.e., it vanishes for all integer multiples of the symbol period, including the origin! Using this idea for a suitably designed timing estimator, it is shown that the annoying jitter floor - typical for most timing estimators and caused by pattern noise - can be avoided.","PeriodicalId":192172,"journal":{"name":"2014 7th Advanced Satellite Multimedia Systems Conference and the 13th Signal Processing for Space Communications Workshop (ASMS/SPSC)","volume":"2013 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-10-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125681416","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":"Security requirements and solutions for integrated satellite-terrestrial Information-Centric Networks","authors":"N. Fotiou, Y. Thomas, V. Siris, George C. Polyzos","doi":"10.1109/ASMS-SPSC.2014.6934531","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ASMS-SPSC.2014.6934531","url":null,"abstract":"Information-Centric Networking (ICN) has been in the spotlight of recent research efforts. ICN architectures depart from the traditional host-centric (inter-)networking paradigm and leverage the role of information by placing it in the core of all networking functions. A target of ICN is to address the security shortcomings of the legacy host-centric paradigm. In this paper we discuss security requirements of an integrated satellite-terrestrial ICN architecture, we present some security solutions and we assess these solutions in our integrated testbed.","PeriodicalId":192172,"journal":{"name":"2014 7th Advanced Satellite Multimedia Systems Conference and the 13th Signal Processing for Space Communications Workshop (ASMS/SPSC)","volume":"257 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-10-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126546180","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":"Interference coordination for the return link of a multibeam satellite system","authors":"Ui Yi Ng, A. Kyrgiazos, B. Evans","doi":"10.1109/ASMS-SPSC.2014.6934569","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ASMS-SPSC.2014.6934569","url":null,"abstract":"Future internet demands are being increased dramatically year by year. Terrestrial systems are unable to satisfy these demands in all geographical areas and thus broadband access by satellite is a key service provision platform. Considering the traffic demands, the raw capacity should approach a Terabit/s by 2020 to meet these demands. The satellite communications network will be a star-based topology, where User Terminals (UT) from multiple beams communicate via central Gateway Earth Stations (GES). The return link from UT to satellite will use DVB-RCS2 Multi-Frequency Time Division Multiple Access (MF-TDMA) transmission scheme in Ka band (30GHz), while the return feeder link from satellite to GES in Q band (40 GHz). Due to generation of large number of narrow user beams, the interference starts becoming a limiting factor in the system's dimensioning. Herein, interference coordination schemes, borrowed from terrestrial cellular systems, are examined in terms of applicability and C/I performance. In addition, an algorithm for dynamic interference coordination is proposed to schedule the transmissions of the users in time-frequency domain of the return link, aiming to improve the C/I. The performance of these schemes and the proposed algorithm is assessed over a 302 user beams satellite system with practical antenna radiation patterns.","PeriodicalId":192172,"journal":{"name":"2014 7th Advanced Satellite Multimedia Systems Conference and the 13th Signal Processing for Space Communications Workshop (ASMS/SPSC)","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-10-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127867478","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":"Comparison of channel codes in presence of pulsed jammers in TT&C links","authors":"P. Martinelli, E. Cianca, L. Simone","doi":"10.1109/ASMS-SPSC.2014.6934540","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ASMS-SPSC.2014.6934540","url":null,"abstract":"This paper compares different channel coding schemes, such as the short Low-Density Parity-Check (LDPC) proposed by NASA for TC applications, and Reed Solomon (RS) codes, in presence of pulsed jammers that causes burst errors. The burst error patterns are generated also considering the occurrence of cycle slips due to the pulsed jammers. Moreover, the effectiveness of introducing interleavers of different depths is investigated for both channel codes. The comparison shows that RS codes represent a robust solution in presence of pulsed jammers and they provide a better trade off performance/latency than short LDPC codes.","PeriodicalId":192172,"journal":{"name":"2014 7th Advanced Satellite Multimedia Systems Conference and the 13th Signal Processing for Space Communications Workshop (ASMS/SPSC)","volume":"28 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-10-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134265273","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}
Federico Clazzer, A. Munari, S. Plass, Birgit Suhr
{"title":"On the impact of coverage range on AIS message reception at flying platforms","authors":"Federico Clazzer, A. Munari, S. Plass, Birgit Suhr","doi":"10.1109/ASMS-SPSC.2014.6934534","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ASMS-SPSC.2014.6934534","url":null,"abstract":"In the recent past, an increasing interest has been devoted to the possibility of receiving Automatic Identification System (AIS) messages via Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellites. While the principle has been demonstrated to be a viable option for monitoring vessel traffic over oceans and vaste land areas, the achievable performance from a communications viewpoint is far from optimal. Recently, it was shown how AIS traffic seen at a satellite can be very accurately modeled resorting to simple random access schemes. Leveraging this result, in this work we propose a simple yet flexible analytical framework capable of predicting channel load and overall reception performance taking into account the spatial distribution of vessels as well as their traffic generation pattern. Feeding the model with ship speed and location data derived from experimental settings, we discuss the achievable efficiency for a typical LEO-satellite detecting AIS packets. Moreover, the impact of the receiver footprint on ground on the overall decoding performance is investigated, deriving some interesting insights on the benefits that could stem resorting to narrower-beam systems. In this direction, we discuss two cases: the usage of a LEO satellite with a directional antenna soon to be launched for AIS monitoring, and the possibility of using airliner for receiving vessel-generated traffic.","PeriodicalId":192172,"journal":{"name":"2014 7th Advanced Satellite Multimedia Systems Conference and the 13th Signal Processing for Space Communications Workshop (ASMS/SPSC)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-10-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115573947","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}
F. Heine, Gerd Muhlnikel, H. Zech, S. Philipp-May, R. Meyer
{"title":"The European Data Relay System, high speed laser based data links","authors":"F. Heine, Gerd Muhlnikel, H. Zech, S. Philipp-May, R. Meyer","doi":"10.1109/ASMS-SPSC.2014.6934556","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ASMS-SPSC.2014.6934556","url":null,"abstract":"The European Data Relay System (EDRS) is currently implemented as the first operational laser based data relay service, creating a virtual ground station for low earth orbit earth observation missions. It is based on the Tesat Laser Communication Terminal (LCT), which was developed under contract from DLR for continuous communication service in LEO and GEO orbits. The paper details the structure, development and verification of the LCT, and describe the developments at Tesat for single photon heterodyne detection, that can be used as receiver for deep space communication links to enable communications even under severe background noise levels like near to sun communication links.","PeriodicalId":192172,"journal":{"name":"2014 7th Advanced Satellite Multimedia Systems Conference and the 13th Signal Processing for Space Communications Workshop (ASMS/SPSC)","volume":"81 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-10-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121181984","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}