{"title":"Satellite-based fully distributed mesh hybrid networking technology DVB-S2/RCS-WiMAX for RRD areas","authors":"A. Markhasin","doi":"10.1109/ASMS-SPSC.2010.5586865","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ASMS-SPSC.2010.5586865","url":null,"abstract":"The convergence of satellite DVB-S2/RCS broadcasting/multicasting systems side by side with terrestrial mobile satellite and broadband wireless 4G WiMAX becomes the most perspective networking technology for BRIC and other countries with many remote, rural, and difficult for access (RRD) territories. The RRD regions differ also by the poor terrestrial core infrastructures and sparsely populated areas. However, the recent broadband satellite systems are based mainly on centralized (i.e., star-like) low-meshed architecture. It requires providing a high concentration of the terrestrial traffics. Hence, such structures are not adequate to the characteristic RRD distributed traffic topology. Therefore the cost of these centralized systems is growing unacceptably for deployment of the 4G public broadband communications in RRD regions. This paper focuses on the developing and the performance analysis of the low-cost, fully distributed (i.e., gridlike) and mesh hybrid networking technology DVB-S2/RCS-WiMAX which meets the RRD requirements.","PeriodicalId":221214,"journal":{"name":"2010 5th Advanced Satellite Multimedia Systems Conference and the 11th Signal Processing for Space Communications Workshop","volume":"85 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-09-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123567043","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":"Parallel PN code acquisition for wireless positioning in CDMA handsets","authors":"G. De Angelis, G. Baruffa, S. Cacopardi","doi":"10.1109/ASMS-SPSC.2010.5586895","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ASMS-SPSC.2010.5586895","url":null,"abstract":"This paper proposes a simplified acquisition system for finding and identifying Base Stations (BSs) in visibility in the framework of a CDMA wireless positioning system, based on IS-95 cellular standard. The problem of having more than one BS in the same PN code acquisition system makes it necessary to discriminate between correct detection and false alarm events. Since IS-95 uses the same PN sequence for all BSs, but with different code offsets, it is possible to use a cross-correlation technique to estimate both code and frequency offsets of several BSs at once. Time-Difference-Of-Arrival (TDOA) technique is used by the Mobile Station (MS) to geolocate itself. The positioning estimate is found to be stable in time and with a precision compatible with that required by emergency services, such as Enhanced 911 (E911).","PeriodicalId":221214,"journal":{"name":"2010 5th Advanced Satellite Multimedia Systems Conference and the 11th Signal Processing for Space Communications Workshop","volume":"63 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-09-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121585457","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":"3-D Gaussian scatter density propagation model employing a directional antenna at BS","authors":"S. Nawaz, M. Patwary, N. Khan, Hongnian Yu","doi":"10.1109/ASMS-SPSC.2010.5586870","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ASMS-SPSC.2010.5586870","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, a propagation model is presented for the land mobile radio cellular systems with 3-D Gaussian distributed scatterers around Mobile Station (MS). The Base Station (BS) equipped with a directional antenna is located outside of the scattering region. The effect of directional antenna is thoroughly observed on spatial and temporal characteristics of the proposed model. General expressions for joint and marginal probability density functions (PDFs) of Angle-of-Arrival (AoA) observed at MS and BS in correspondence with azimuth and elevation angles are derived. Novel expressions for the trivariate and the bivariate density functions for Time-of-Arrival (ToA) / AoA in correspondence with azimuth and elevation angles are derived. Exploiting the proposed model, the theoretical results along with observations are presented to illustrate the effect of directional antenna on the spatio-temporal characteristics of channel. Obtained theoretical results for spatial statistics at BS are compared with an empirical set of measured data, which also demonstrates the validity of proposed model.","PeriodicalId":221214,"journal":{"name":"2010 5th Advanced Satellite Multimedia Systems Conference and the 11th Signal Processing for Space Communications Workshop","volume":"195 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-09-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117057630","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":"Optimized APSK bit allocation for satellite communication","authors":"Antonio Angioi, M. Lixia, M. Murroni","doi":"10.1109/ASMS-SPSC.2010.5586898","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ASMS-SPSC.2010.5586898","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper a novel optimal bit allocation for APSK modulation is proposed. Optimization is done by GA according to the satellite channel error sensitivity of the data. Furthermore, a new bit mapping is proposed for 16-APSK and 32-APSK. Results show the improvement of the proposed scheme with respect to the state of the art of the APSK modulation.","PeriodicalId":221214,"journal":{"name":"2010 5th Advanced Satellite Multimedia Systems Conference and the 11th Signal Processing for Space Communications Workshop","volume":"89 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-09-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126714588","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":"Cooperative satellite to land mobile gap-filler-less interactive system architecture","authors":"G. Cocco, C. Ibars, O. del Río Herrero","doi":"10.1109/ASMS-SPSC.2010.5586917","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ASMS-SPSC.2010.5586917","url":null,"abstract":"Considerable efforts are being made in the area of interactive satellite broadcast services to mobiles, which range from the development of specific communication standards to the realization of practical proof-of-concept prototypes. The main reasons for such a big interest lie in the fact that interactive satellite services are a large potential market with many possible applications. Frequent and long-lasting shadowing caused by surrounding buildings in urban and suburban scenarios greatly limits system availability. The common approach to solve the problem consists in deploying fixed gap fillers, which imply a great consumption of economic and bandwidth resources. In the present paper we propose a novel hybrid satellite-terrestrial system architecture in which cooperative communication techniques are extensively adopted in order to reduce the number of gap-fillers needed to get a target system availability. Nodes are meant to have both networking and satellite communication capabilities so that each of them can possibly act as a Mobile Gap-Filler (MGF).","PeriodicalId":221214,"journal":{"name":"2010 5th Advanced Satellite Multimedia Systems Conference and the 11th Signal Processing for Space Communications Workshop","volume":"44 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-09-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126153280","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":"Creating the next generation DVB-RCS satellite communication & applications: The largest standards initiative for satellite communication inspires new oppurtunities","authors":"H. Skinnemoen","doi":"10.1109/ASMS-SPSC.2010.5586868","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ASMS-SPSC.2010.5586868","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents current status, progress and next steps of the largest standardization effort conducted for satellite communication systems. We highlight the process, in order to understand the mechanisms involved, and novel technology elements. We also allow ourselves to speculate on the possible impact this work can have for the satellite community and see how opportunities for some interesting new services in niche markets arise in addition to the targeted consumer market.","PeriodicalId":221214,"journal":{"name":"2010 5th Advanced Satellite Multimedia Systems Conference and the 11th Signal Processing for Space Communications Workshop","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-09-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129799178","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}
K. Liolis, Spiros Pantazis, Vassilis Gennatos, S. Costicoglou, I. Andrikopoulos
{"title":"An automated fire detection and alerting application based on satellite and wireless communications","authors":"K. Liolis, Spiros Pantazis, Vassilis Gennatos, S. Costicoglou, I. Andrikopoulos","doi":"10.1109/ASMS-SPSC.2010.5586913","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ASMS-SPSC.2010.5586913","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents the design, implementation and demonstration results from the ongoing ESA ARTES project “SFEDONA”. The SFEDONA project deals with a complete end-to-end fire detection and alerting application which employs state-of-the-art satellite and wireless communications air interfaces as well as advanced technologies in fire detection, alerting and propagation estimation based on terrestrial optical cameras, weather meteorological stations and environmental sensors. In particular, this paper presents in detail the SFEDONA system architecture, discusses critical design and implementation issues and provides information on the trials and demonstrations results from the related in-lab validation activities. Well field-proven multi-sensor data fusion algorithms, which are widely used in the fire protection domain, are also analyzed. Moreover, emphasis is put on the critical comparison of state-of-the-art satellite IP technologies as well as to the detailed design of the satellite IP network solution actually implemented in the project.","PeriodicalId":221214,"journal":{"name":"2010 5th Advanced Satellite Multimedia Systems Conference and the 11th Signal Processing for Space Communications Workshop","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-09-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129812008","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":"Low complexity time-domain channel estimation for OFDM using training symbols","authors":"Mo Zhu, A. Awoseyila, B. Evans","doi":"10.1109/ASMS-SPSC.2010.5586879","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ASMS-SPSC.2010.5586879","url":null,"abstract":"A low complexity time domain channel estimation technique for OFDM systems is proposed. It uses training symbols to estimate the channel impulse responses (CIR) via circular cross-correlation. A CIR search window technique is also proposed to optimise the accuracy of synchronisation and channel estimation. The output of the search window can also be used for the estimation of channel delay spread. Simulation results show that the proposed method provides near-ideal accuracy with a complexity much lower than the MMSE technique.","PeriodicalId":221214,"journal":{"name":"2010 5th Advanced Satellite Multimedia Systems Conference and the 11th Signal Processing for Space Communications Workshop","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-09-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127932616","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}
J. Vicario, Marc Barcelo, Marti Mañosas, G. Seco-Granados, F. Antreich, J. M. Cebrián, Joan Picanyol, F. Amarillo
{"title":"A novel look into digital beamforming techniques for multipath and interference mitigation in Galileo Ground Stations","authors":"J. Vicario, Marc Barcelo, Marti Mañosas, G. Seco-Granados, F. Antreich, J. M. Cebrián, Joan Picanyol, F. Amarillo","doi":"10.1109/ASMS-SPSC.2010.5586884","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ASMS-SPSC.2010.5586884","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we explore the adoption of Array Signal Processing in Galileo Ground Stations. The main motivation comes from the need of efficiently mitigating multipath and interference sources in order to achieve centimetre accuracy. One of the critical aspects appearing when an array of antennas is implemented resides on the array perturbations and mismod-elling. For that reason, this work places special emphasis on this issue and some robust beamforming techniques are proposed. Differently from other studies addressing the use of conventional beamforming techniques for navigation applications, we propose novel strategies specially adapted to the considered scenario. As shown in the paper, the use of digital beamforming allows for a (at least) 47% reduction in terms of tracking errors when compared to a single antenna receiver.","PeriodicalId":221214,"journal":{"name":"2010 5th Advanced Satellite Multimedia Systems Conference and the 11th Signal Processing for Space Communications Workshop","volume":"88 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-09-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126445159","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. Chuberre, M. Piccinni, Jean-Francois Boutillon, A. Sanchez, Juan Manuel Rodriguez Bejarano, K. Liolis
{"title":"SatCom systems in the context of Future Internet-enabled smart infrastructures","authors":"N. Chuberre, M. Piccinni, Jean-Francois Boutillon, A. Sanchez, Juan Manuel Rodriguez Bejarano, K. Liolis","doi":"10.1109/ASMS-SPSC.2010.5586857","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ASMS-SPSC.2010.5586857","url":null,"abstract":"This paper aims at forecasting the role of Satellite Communications (SatCom) in the context of Future Internet and particularly of the future Internet-enabled smart infrastructures in support of some European Societal Grand Challenges. It also aims at identifying the necessary technological enablers which need to be developed by the European SatCom industry for the emerging SatCom solutions.","PeriodicalId":221214,"journal":{"name":"2010 5th Advanced Satellite Multimedia Systems Conference and the 11th Signal Processing for Space Communications Workshop","volume":"101 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-09-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124707077","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}