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Broadband Satellite Communication Systems

General co-Chairs

Thierry Gayraud, LAAS-CNRS, France
Michel Mazzella, Alcatel Space, France

Scope of the Workshop

This one-day workshop will consist of a state-of-the-art session (invited papers related to Broadband Satellite Communication Systems) followed by a Technical Session and concluded by a panel session. The Technical Session will describe significant research as well as innovative development and applications. In order to encourage closer interaction between academic and industrial networking research communities, both academic research papers and industrial contributions have been welcome.

Recently the request of multimedia services has been rapidly increasing and satellite networks appear to be attractive for a fast service deployment and for extending the typical service area of terrestrial systems. In comparison with traditional wide area networks, a characteristic of satellite communication systems is their ability in broadcasting and multicasting multimedia information flows anywhere over the satellite coverage.

Telecommunication networks are moving towards an all-IP environment with unified protocols in both access and core networks. Therefore, the following step to be achieved is the integration of terrestrial and satellite systems not only from the coverage standpoint, but also for what concerns protocols until the application layer. In such a context, several techniques need to be proposed in order to optimize the system at different layers in terms of definition of orbital configurations (LEO, MEO, GEO), transmission techniques, efficient share of satellite link resources and new communication services (multimedia applications, mobility services, positioning services.).

Topics

Papers have been selected in the following areas:

•  Satellite Network Architectures
•  Hybrid Satellite and Terrestrial Networks
•  Services and Applications
•  Internet Services over Satellite
•  Traffic Characterization and Modeling
•  Quality of Service Aspects
•  Quality of Service Guarantee with Multimedia Traffics
•  TCP/IP Performance over Satellite
•  New Transport Protocols for Mobile Satellite Systems
•  Network Control and Management
•  Mobility Management and Services
•  Radio Resource Management for Hybrid Terrestrial and Satellite Systems
•  Access Schemes with Adaptive Transmission bit-rate
•  Reservation Protocols for Satellite Access
•  Advances in Modulation and Coding for Satellite Communications

Contact

bscs04@laas.fr