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The Scalable Video Coding (SVC) is an extension of H.264/AVC offering temporal, spatial, and quality scalability. Compared to the non-scalable profile of H.264/AVC, SVC allows layered transmission of video data. Variable Coding and Modulation (VCM) based DVB-S2 Video Broadcasting Systems enables effective selection of modulation modes and FEC code-rates offering differentiated error protection. In...
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...
On-Board Processing (OBP) technology has been already in the satellite scene for almost two decades. It has been a difficult path and for a long time considered an added but expensive value brought to the satellite payload. Today, it is a commercial and competitive reality. In the case of Thales Alenia Space (TAS), a new generation of OBP solutions are available to satisfy the always more demanding...
This paper analyzes the possibility to perform joint frame synchronization and code acquisition for the DVB-RCS mobile system. Since the standard foresees the adoption of Direct Sequence Spread Spectrum techniques, novel detectors able to cope with the scenario at hand are proposed. Comparison in terms of Mean Acquisition Time and complexity are carried out, and the best solution in terms of performance...
For the design of intelligent receivers, the classification of modulation schemes becomes an increasingly important task. Interestingly, the numerous papers on this subject neglect algorithms for the classification of APSK signals, although these are recommended in the DVB-S2 standard. Therefore, a feature-based method for classification of modulation schemes typically used in satellite communications,...
This paper deals with design of the appropriate time domain equalizer based on DVB-S2 specification for mobile application. Firstly, we consider different ISI effect under various channel condition through field measurement. With reflection of channel effect, we suggest adaptive filter as channel condition and synchronization step mode like code start/hot start. Finally, we implement the blind FS...
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...
Designing new satellite access protocols or validating innovative satellite network concepts, evaluating their performances and demonstrating them require powerful test tools to check their compliance with satellite system requirements. Obviously, such tools have to be as representative as possible of typical satellite telecom systems, but also adaptable to specific research and engineering needs...
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...
This paper reports a study concerning the assessment of cooperation effects at MAC layer in DVB-RCS systems. In particular, a modified resource allocation mechanism has been considered in order to implement a Selective Forwarding cooperation scheme within a group of sources working in a land-vehicular scenario. The achieved results are presented in terms of aggregated average throughput for different...
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...
This paper summarises the results of several sessions of measurements executed in the context of the research project named “J-ORTIGIA”. The scope of the project was to validate all kinds of hybrid reception supported by the DVB-SH able to counteract fading in satellite and terrestrial environments. The results of the measurements have also contributed to the 2nd issue of the DVB-SH Implementation...
The number of Satellite Services have increased tremendously during the last years: although initially driven only the military applications, commercial automotive applications collected the mass market attention in the recent years. Nowadays, these satellite services are mainly used for voice, data, internet, and tracking applications. Vehicles are increasingly being equipped with on-board electronic...
DVB-SH (Digital Video Broadcasting- Satellite Handled) is a broadcasting standard dedicated to hybrid broadcasting systems combining a satellite and a terrestrial part. On the satellite part, dedicated interleaving and time slicing mechanisms are proposed to mitigate the effects of Land Mobile Satellite (LMS) channel, based on a convolutional interleaver. Depending on the parameters of this interleaver,...
A new upper bound is presented to the probability of error in detecting one out of M equiprobable signals in additive white Gaussian noise. This bound employs the same number of erfc function evaluations as the well-known Union Bound, but it is tighter. For high cardinality constellations, the Union Bound is useless for low signal-to-noise ratios being above 1, while the proposed new bound maintains...
We propose and analyze two strategies to provide different levels of quality of service (QoS) to the DVB-SH standard. An extension of the interleaving scheme is investigated to support low latency service requirements for interactive services based on short messages. The first approach is a straightforward extension of the DVB-SH interleaver scheme based on an early-uniform interleaver profile, and...
The 2nd generation of Digital Video Broadcasting for Satellite (DVB-S2) standards allows the direct transmission of IP content using the Generic Stream Encapsulation (GSE) protocol, replacing the existing Transport Stream (MPEG-2 TS). This represents an evolution from the two current encapsulation methods: the native use of the Packetized Elementary Stream (PES) over TS for MPEG-2 encoded applications...
The current signalling framework for Digital Video Broadcasting (DVB) systems is based on MPEG-2 encoded Program Specific Information and System Information (PSI/SI) Tables that rely on the Transport Stream (TS). It is expected that in time, this architecture will be replaced by one based on the Generic Stream Encapsulation (GSE) protocol, paving the way for the convergence of DVB-S2 broadcast transmission...
Advanced communication and broadcasting systems use heavily diversity techniques to improve service availability. To analyze the performance of systems using techniques such as time diversity or time interleaving, antenna diversity and angle diversity, a detailed knowledge of the channel characteristics is essential. Especially the statistical analysis and the evaluation of the slow fading effect...
This paper makes a survey of current trends and perspectives in the development of mobile satellite services in S-band in Europe. We present the recent evolutions and current status of different ongoing projects. We also identify current technology challenges and key drivers in the future evolution.
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