Future trends in broadband satellite communications: information centric networks and enabling technologies

Summary The ever‐increasing demand for multimedia services from fixed and mobile users has motivated the scientific community, industries, and standardization fora to rethink the communication paradigm and the protocol architectures, resulting in an overall revolution of the Internet technologies. A...

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Published in:International journal of satellite communications and networking 2015-09, Vol.33 (5), p.473-490
Main Authors: Cola, Tomaso De, Tarchi, Daniele, Vanelli-Coralli, Alessandro
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Broadband
cognitive radio
Communication satellites
future internet
information-centric networking
interference management
Internet
Networks
satellite
Satellite communications
Satellites
Trends
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Summary:Summary The ever‐increasing demand for multimedia services from fixed and mobile users has motivated the scientific community, industries, and standardization fora to rethink the communication paradigm and the protocol architectures, resulting in an overall revolution of the Internet technologies. As satellite will play a pivotal role in this picture to exploit its broadcast and broadband capabilities; technical challenges come up in the integration of satellite and terrestrial networks. New paradigms based on the recent Future Internet studies findings have to be also applied to the satellite communications domain, with consequent implications on the design of the physical layer, in order for the satellite capacity to accommodate all of the offered services. This paper explores the various challenges arising during this process and draws a new concept of broadband satellite systems, tailored to the needs of fixed and mobile users. Copyright © 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. The paper reports the current trends in terrestrial networking and communication that could bring relevant performance gain in satellite networks. The first part of the paper discusses the overall principles of Information Centric Networking, with emphasis on the possible architectures that could be considered for future satellite scenarios. The second part of the paper focuses on novel techniques in the framework of interference management such as MIMO and cognitive radio that would be particularly appealing in the drawn use cases.
ISSN:1542-0973
1542-0981
DOI:10.1002/sat.1101