G. Tomasicchio, A. Ceccarelli, A. D. Matteis, L. Spazzacampagna
{"title":"A space-based healthcare emergency management system for epidemics monitoring and response","authors":"G. Tomasicchio, A. Ceccarelli, A. D. Matteis, L. Spazzacampagna","doi":"10.1049/icp.2022.0571","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1049/icp.2022.0571","url":null,"abstract":"A global pandemic such as COVID-19 highlights more than anything else the necessity of a robust technological infrastructure to support critical activities, digital healthcare services, hospital organizations, medical screening and first aid facilities. The aim of the proposed solution is to provide an advanced healthcare monitoring and management system, covering national and international territory, exploiting spatial assets. The system includes all the innovative elements to provide an efficient monitoring and management solution for fighting against wide epidemics. Medical screening kiosks, healthcare VANs, IoT sensors, hybrid communication system (both satellite and terrestrial), centralized cloud-based data centre, provide a large healthcare screening and response network on the whole population which allows to help hospitals, medical and first aid units, rescue & military teams in pre-triage screening/prevention, monitoring and logistics activities for epidemics. The solution provides for the use of an infrastructure based on a Telespazio Hybrid Network implementing resilient high-capacity virtual connections by combining a multiplicity of physical connections based on different technologies that operate simultaneously ensuring robustness of the connection, continuity and quality of service. Finally, the architecture of the proposed system will be presented by describing the main components relying on innovative IoT sensing technologies, processing and response concepts.","PeriodicalId":401042,"journal":{"name":"38th International Communications Satellite Systems Conference (ICSSC 2021)","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122163783","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":"NASA lunar exploration – gateway's power and propulsion element communications links","authors":"R. Dendy, D. Zeleznikar, M. Zemba","doi":"10.1049/icp.2022.0543","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1049/icp.2022.0543","url":null,"abstract":"As a key part of NASA's Artemis program to return to the moon, the Lunar Gateway will provide a platform for staging lunar missions, for gaining experience in operations beyond earth orbit, and for creating sustainable infrastructure. Of specific interest, the Lunar Gateway will provide communications support to landers, orbiters, and surface systems, including in the South Polar Region where direct line of sight (LOS) to Earth is limited or non-existent. A foundational segment of the Gateway is the Power and Propulsion Element (PPE), which will carry: solar arrays to provide power to the Gateway; electric propulsion to maintain the Gateway in its operational orbit; and communication links between the Earth and Gateway, the Moon and Gateway, and relays from the Moon to the Earth. PPE Communication Links include an X-band link to Earth for Command, Ranging, and Telemetry (CR&T), which also carries low to medium rate data; a Ka-band Direct to Earth (DTE) link for high rate data transmissions; and a Ka-band Lunar link for high data rate connections to lunar systems. This paper describes the PPE communication links from a technical perspective. Other Gateway links supported by other modules are outside the scope of this paper.","PeriodicalId":401042,"journal":{"name":"38th International Communications Satellite Systems Conference (ICSSC 2021)","volume":"33 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121488083","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":"Joint frequency scheduling and power allocation for CubeSat communication","authors":"Wenkai Zhang, A. S. Behbahani, A. Eltawil","doi":"10.1049/icp.2022.0569","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1049/icp.2022.0569","url":null,"abstract":"CubeSats, a type of miniaturized satellites with the benefits of low cost and short deployment period, have attracted intensive research interest recently and have been regarded as the promising future for satellite communication. With increasing service demands, uncoordinated inter-satellite communication without any intelligent scheduling or budgeting of frequency and power can no longer satisfy the need for development. In this work we evaluate the benefit of frequency scheduling in improving transmission data rate of CubeSats, using different operating frequencies, including microwave, millimeter wave and optical frequencies. A joint frequency scheduling and power allocation scheme is designed to provide the optimal transmission rate data under transmit power and throughput constraints. Simulation results demonstrate the inter-satellite links of CubeSats with frequency scheduling and power allocation can achieve higher transmission data rate than traditional operation conditions with fixed frequency or fixed power.","PeriodicalId":401042,"journal":{"name":"38th International Communications Satellite Systems Conference (ICSSC 2021)","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117105569","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. Piasecki, J. Downey, N. Pham, J. Nessel, A. Gannon, D. Zeleznikar, M. Koch
{"title":"Development and demonstration of a wideband RF user terminal for roaming between Ka-band relay satellite networks","authors":"M. Piasecki, J. Downey, N. Pham, J. Nessel, A. Gannon, D. Zeleznikar, M. Koch","doi":"10.1049/icp.2022.0579","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1049/icp.2022.0579","url":null,"abstract":"The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has provided low-latency communication relay services to science and exploration spacecraft for nearly four decades with the Tracking and Data Relay Satellite System (TDRSS). Through NASA's Communications Services Project (CSP), the agency is pursuing a transition away from dedicated government-owned communication relay satellites and infrastructure in favour of commercially provided satellite communication (SATCOM) services. Many of these SATCOM services are offered in the K/Ka-band covering spectrum allocated to commercial, military, and civilian space operations. While these services were intended to provide broadband connectivity for terrestrial, maritime, and aviation customers, many can be tailored to support orbiting spacecraft. By introducing commercial SATCOM providers, NASA intends to create an interoperable network of networks which will enable missions to roam between multiple service providers. A key enabling technology needed for this vision is a multi-frequency (wideband), multi-waveform user terminal which can seamlessly roam between multiple providers. This paper discusses the development and ground demonstration of a new wideband RF user terminal prototype designed to roam across multiple networks over the Ka-band, allowing ubiquitous service, resiliency, and flexibility for the user.","PeriodicalId":401042,"journal":{"name":"38th International Communications Satellite Systems Conference (ICSSC 2021)","volume":"44 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115380799","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":"Gateway selection algorithm for radio and optical hybrid satellites considering weather conditions","authors":"Y. Abe, M. Okawa, A. Miura, K. Okada","doi":"10.1049/icp.2022.0553","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1049/icp.2022.0553","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we propose a gateway selection algorithm for radio and optical hybrid satellites considering weather condi-tion to maximize system throughput. To accommodate large number of communication requests, more and more capacity of satellite communication systems has been required to pro-vide communication links for remote area. To this end, com-bining radio and optical links can improve system throughput with high reliability. In radio and optical hybrid satellite com-munication systems, it is important to utilize site diversity technology and to change network structure according to weather condition and link status. In this paper, the radio and optical hybrid system is firstly modelled and problem setting to obtain gateway selection is described. Then, we propose an algorithm to solve the gateway selection problem based on weather condition and desired utilization ratio of radio and op-tical links. Finally, we conducted numerical simulations and verified the basic functions of the proposed algorithm.","PeriodicalId":401042,"journal":{"name":"38th International Communications Satellite Systems Conference (ICSSC 2021)","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122687333","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":"Microwave Power Modules (MPMs) in space","authors":"A. Katz, R. Dorval, R. Gray, C. H. Tenev","doi":"10.1049/icp.2022.0580","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1049/icp.2022.0580","url":null,"abstract":"Microwave and millimeter-wave power modules (MPMs) are complete microwave power amplifiers in a single housing, and usually include a solid-state driver amplifier, a miniature traveling wave tube (TWT), and an electronic power converter (EPC). At the time of their introduction, MPMs were hailed as “the most significant recent advancement in high power microwave amplifiers,” but they have seen relatively little application in space, despite extensive heritage in ground and airborne systems. When combined with a linearizer they can offer the most compact and efficient high-power amplification available for the higher microwave and millimeter-wave bands in the 25-to-200-watt power range. New “nano” technology has further reduced the size and increased the efficiency of MPMs, while the development of more versatile linearizers now allows their characteristics to be adjusted to correct for changes in an amplifier's nonlinearity. These advances allow these amazing devices to be used in space for shaped, multibeam, and phased array applications.","PeriodicalId":401042,"journal":{"name":"38th International Communications Satellite Systems Conference (ICSSC 2021)","volume":"123 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127051578","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":"On-board detection, localization, and mitigation of radio frequency interference","authors":"H. Vasseur, G. Nzokira, B. Desoete","doi":"10.1049/icp.2022.0575","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1049/icp.2022.0575","url":null,"abstract":"Radio frequency interference is an increasing threat to the operation of satellite communications. This paper describes an on-board equipment designed to monitor the multiple uplink frequency bands used by a communication satellite, detect and characterize in real-time any interfering signal, localize the interference source, and deliver a cleaned version of the interfered signal. The architecture of the monitoring equipment relies on a software-defined radio concept. It enables to digitize and process simultaneously signals received from several on-board uplink antennas. The interference counteraction algorithms are implemented in a state-of-the-art FPGA. The paper details the selected counteraction techniques and presents an assessment of their performance for detecting, characterizing, localizing and mitigating uplink interference, based on simulation.","PeriodicalId":401042,"journal":{"name":"38th International Communications Satellite Systems Conference (ICSSC 2021)","volume":"78 5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130377585","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":"History-based classification of encrypted traffic into QOS class with self-update","authors":"C. Su, K. Jain, S. Vasudevan","doi":"10.1049/icp.2022.0566","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1049/icp.2022.0566","url":null,"abstract":"Traffic flows need to be classified into different Quality of Service (QoS) classes to prioritize traffic according to their QoS. Without proper provision of differentiated service based on QoS requirement of each application, a user's Quality of Experience (QoE) will be poor and communication system resources may not be efficiently utilized. Since encrypted traffic now comprises the majority of the Internet traffic, classification of encrypted traffic is necessary for a satellite broadband system. We propose a novel approach to classify encrypted traffic instantaneously at the start of a traffic flow based on actual measured traffic characteristics. The classification is based on the history which is self-updated when a flow is finished. The approach is also capable of updating classification type at the middle of the flow when the measured traffic characteristics do not match with the history-based classification. The classification type corresponds to a QoS traffic class which is readily amenable to queuing and servicing at a network egress and ingress point.","PeriodicalId":401042,"journal":{"name":"38th International Communications Satellite Systems Conference (ICSSC 2021)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116181838","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}
H. Chaker, N. Maturo, S. Chatzinotas, H. Chougrani, W. Martins, J. Grotz
{"title":"Enablers for matching demand in geo multi-beam satellites: dynamic beamforming, precoding, or both?","authors":"H. Chaker, N. Maturo, S. Chatzinotas, H. Chougrani, W. Martins, J. Grotz","doi":"10.1049/icp.2022.0557","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1049/icp.2022.0557","url":null,"abstract":"In trending satellite communication applications, the traffic demand is not only rapidly increasing, it is also spatiotemporally evolving. This motivates the deployment of high throughput satellite systems with flexible radio resource management and transmission techniques. In contrast to regular beam layout plans (RBLP) currently used in GEO payloads, future flexible payloads are capable of dynamic beamforming (DBF) in order to illuminate the coverage area using highly-directive and traffic-adaptive beampatterns. The beampatterns in an adaptive beam layout plan (ABLP) can have irregular shapes and mutual overlaps, potentially causing excessive inter-beam interferences (IBI) compared to the RBLP case. In this work, we evaluate the combination of DBF and precoding as the latter promises high throughputs in interference-limited conditions and is supported by the recent DVB-S2X norm. Under realistic non-uniform traffic patterns, we compare a typical RBLP against an ABLP in terms of their traffic matching performances with and without precoding. Through the comparisons, we show that DBF enables to significantly reduce the capacity mismatches using an ABLP that uniformly balances the demand distribution across beams. Noting that the ABLP is IBI agnostic, an unpredictable interference environment is built. In such conditions, precoding enables to reliably provide high throughputs through full frequency reuse.","PeriodicalId":401042,"journal":{"name":"38th International Communications Satellite Systems Conference (ICSSC 2021)","volume":"75 4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129913820","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. Yamashita, D. Goto, Y. Kojima, K. Itokawa, K. Sakamoto, Y. Fujino, C. Kato, M. Nakadai, M. Yajima, T. Iwata
{"title":"Development of on-board engineering model for 920-MHz earth sensing platform via LEO satellite utilizing feeder-link MIMO technology","authors":"F. Yamashita, D. Goto, Y. Kojima, K. Itokawa, K. Sakamoto, Y. Fujino, C. Kato, M. Nakadai, M. Yajima, T. Iwata","doi":"10.1049/icp.2022.0574","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1049/icp.2022.0574","url":null,"abstract":"We are currently developing a 920-MHz earth sensing platform via a low Earth orbit (LEO) satellite utilizing feeder-link multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) technology. This platform aims to lower the cost of earth sensing service via satellite by making use of terrestrial low-power wide-area (LPWA) terminals and shared unlicensed frequency bands. In this paper, we introduce the on-board engineering model we developed for the satellite experiments as well as our earth sensing platform concept.","PeriodicalId":401042,"journal":{"name":"38th International Communications Satellite Systems Conference (ICSSC 2021)","volume":"145 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130269646","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}