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2008 International Workshop on Satellite and Space

Communications IWSSC’08

October 01-03, 2008

Conference Program

Co-organized by TESA, ISAE/SUPAERO and ONERA

Hosted by Institut Supérieur de l'Aéronautique et de l'Espace (ISAE) Campus SUPAERO - Toulouse, France

IWSSC 2008 Table of Contents Welcome message from the General Chairs .......................................................................3 Welcome message from the Technical Program Chairs .................................................4 EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE...................................................................................................5 TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE ........................................................................6 REVIEWERS .................................................................................................................................7 Program at a Glance ....................................................................................................................9 Keynote Speech - ARTES, the ESA Telecommunication Programme to enhance the competitiveness of the European Space Industry ....................................................10 Invited Plenary Speaker - GSAT-4, a step towards Indian Advance Communications Satellite ........................................................................................................11 WISE Session - WISE: A Web Information Service Window for Knowledge Management in Satellite Communications ........................................................................12 Tutorial 1 - Characterization and modelling of the LMS channel............................14 Tutorial 2 - Encapsulation matters: from MPE over ULE to GSE ..........................14 Tutorial 3 - Satellite Networks I: Constellations .............................................................15 Tutorial 4 - Satellite Networks II: System Design and Applications ........................15 Panel Session - Satellite Communications After-Tomorrow: A Visionary Panel... from an Unusual Perspective .........................................................16 Detailed Technical Program ...................................................................................................21 Conference Location ..................................................................................................................26 Internet Access Details ..............................................................................................................27 Instructions for Speakers .........................................................................................................27 Travel Directions.........................................................................................................................28 Welcome Reception ....................................................................................................................29 Banquet...........................................................................................................................................30

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IWSSC 2008 Welcome message from the General Chairs

Satellite systems have unique capabilities in terms of robustness, wide area coverage, and provision of broadcast/multicast services. Satellite networks are also an attractive approach for communication services in areas of the world not well served by existing terrestrial infrastructures. For all these reasons, satellite communications are experiencing a renewed interest in the manufacturers and in the market of services.

The objective of this workshop is to bring together researchers and experts on satellite communication systems to discuss the current status, technical challenges, latest research results, and standards. After the success of IWSSC 2005 in Siena, Italy (September 8-9, 2005), IWSSC 2006 in Léganes, Spain (September 14-15, 2006), and IWSSC 2007 in Salzburg (September 12-14, 2007), it is our great pleasure to introduce this workshop again in Toulouse for the 2008 edition. We have received a good number of paper submissions, with authors from different regions as follows: 83% from Europe, 12% from Asia, and 5% from North and South America.

The IWSSC2008 technical programme is enriching in technical contents, including 4 tutorials, a panel session with the participation of international experts and 15 technical sessions. The accepted papers covered different aspects in the field of satellite communications, such as channel models, fade mitigation techniques, satellite navigation, satellite orbit and antenna technology, radio resource management, networking, and transport layer protocols. Three special sessions have been also organized, dealing with “ETSI broadband satellite multimedia, past, present and future”, “OURSES project: medical services in rural areas using new satellite communication technologies”, and “IPv6 networking for satellites, the Satsix experience”. The scope of the workshop includes a wide range of technical challenges in view of multimedia and broadband satellite communication systems, the evolution of future satellite networks with terrestrial complementary systems, the direct mobile access to satellites, the adoption of fade countermeasures and evolving standards.

Toulouse is a nice city, with rich traditions and very important research centres and industries working in the field of satellite systems. This is a very unique location for this workshop, providing the occasion to meet each other researchers and manufactures discussing on future trends and opportunities. We would like to thank the support of ISAE, ONERA and TéSA Institutions that provided an excellent organization of this event. We would also like to thank the sponsors and, in particular, the FP6 SatNEx II Network of Excellence for the important economical support to this event.

Before concluding, the Chairs would like express their gratitude to the TCP Chairs (Laurent Castanet, Sooyoung Kim, and Ruhai Wang) and the whole team (Sandro Scalise, Sastri Kota, and Anton Donner). A very special thank is for the local organizing team (Davide Bonacci and Yamina Nedjari) as well as the Publication Chair and co-Chair (Paolo Chini and Thierry Gayraud) who did hard and excellent work in these last months.

Have a nice stay in Tolouse and a good participation to IWSSC 2008!

Looking forward to meeting you in Toulouse,

Giovanni Giambene General Chair

Michel Bousquet General Co-Chair and Finance Chair

Boon Sain Yeo General Vice-Chair

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IWSSC 2008 Welcome message from the Technical Program Chairs

After the successful previous workshops held in 2005 in Siena, in 2006 in Madrid and in 2007 in Salzburg, the fourth International Workshop on Satellite and Space Communications is organised in 2008 in Toulouse, one of the most famous cities in Europe for aerospace technology and applications and in particular for space communications.

The 2008 version of the IWSSC workshop confirms the tendency observed these last years of an increasing interest for the topics of space communications and the participation to this workshop is increasing from year to year. More precisely, 78 papers were submitted to this workshop, and after the reviewing process carried out by at least 3 reviewers per paper and involving 111 reviewers distributed all over the world, 60 papers of high quality have been eventually accepted.

The program of the workshop has been defined as follows. First of all, four tutorials by researchers working in the framework of the European Network of Excellence ‘SatNEx’ are given on Wednesday 1 October, devoted to channel modelling for mobile satcom applications, to satellite networking for constellation and for system design and applications, and to encapsulation issues. A keynote deals with: “Satellite communications: a European perspective” and a presentation given by an invited speaker and entitled: “GSAT-4, a step towards Indian Advance Communications Satellite” is devoted to space communication programs in India. A Panel session is organised on Thursday 2 October on the issue of “Satellite Communications After-Tomorrow: A Visionary Panel... from an Unusual Perspective”.

The 63 papers have been distributed into Regular sessions, Ph’D sessions and Special sessions. Regular sessions are organised in the following topics : Channel Modelling, Modulation and Coding, and Satellite Networking. Ph’D sessions are devoted to Channel Models, Satellite Orbit and Antenna Technology, Coding and Modulation, Fade Mitigation Techniques, Radio Resource Management, Transport Protocols, Satellite Navigation, Synchronisation Issues, Satellite/Terrestrial Hybrid Networks. Then, Special sessions deal with ETSI broadband satellite multimedia activities, medical services in rural areas using new satellite communication technologies, and IPv6 networking for satellites.

All the activities to build this technical programme has been carried out in close collaboration between chair and co-chair persons and we would like to thank Giovanni Giambene for his active support during the preparation of the conference, as well as Michel Bousquet for the organisation of this event. On the other hand, we would like to thank all TPC members who have participated to the review process and therefore have actively contributed to the success of this workshop.

Finally, various types of presentations are proposed during this event, from tutorials to get a good picture on a key domain of satellite communications, through general presentations of European and Indian policies in this field, to more conventional sessions related to space communications. Another specificity of this workshop is to allow Ph’D students to present their progress in specific sessions and therefore to feed discussions allowing collaborations to be set up. Eventually, we hope that the audience will benefit from all this technical material to improve research in this highly dynamic area.

Laurent Castanet Technical Program Chair

Ruhai Wang Technical Program Co-chair

Sooyoung Kim Technical Program Co-chair

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IWSSC 2008 EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

General Chair Giovanni Giambene, University of Siena, Italy

General Co-Chair and Finance Chair: Michel Bousquet, ISAE, Toulouse, France

General Vice-Chair Boon Sain Yeo, SensiMesh Pte Ltd, Singapore

Technical Program Chair: Laurent Castanet, ONERA , Toulouse, France

Technical Program Co-Chairs: Sooyoung Kim, Chonbuk National University, Korea Ruhai Wang, Lamar University, Texas

Panel Chair: Sandro Scalise, DLR, Germany

Publicity Chair: Sastri Kota, Harris Corp., USA

Publication Chair and co-Chair Paolo Chini, University of Siena, Italy Thierry Gayraud, LAAS, Toulouse, France

Special Session Chair Thierry Gayraud, LAAS, Toulouse, France

Tutorial Chair Anton Donner, DLR, Germany

Steering Committee Michel Bousquet, ISAE, Toulouse, France Bernhard Collini-Nocker, University of Salzburg, Austria Erina Ferro, ISTI-CNR, Pisa, Italy Giovanni Giambene, University of Siena, Italy Otto Koudelka, Technical University Graz, Austria José Ignacio Moreno, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain Francisco Javier Gonzalez Castaño, Universidad de Vigo, Spain Sastri Kota, Harris Corp., USA William W. Wu, Advanced Technology Mechanization, USA Boon Sain Yeo, Wavex Technologies Pte Ltd, Singapore

Local Organizing Committee Michel Bousquet, ISAE, Toulouse, France Laurent Castanet, ONERA , Toulouse, France David Bonacci, TéSA , Toulouse, France Julien Roustan, TéSA, Toulouse, France

Conference Secretariat Yamina Nedjari, TéSA, Toulouse, France

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IWSSC 2008 TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Do Seob Ahn, ETRI, Korea Ho-Jin Lee, ETRI, Korea Fatih Alagoz, Bogazici University, Turkey Joel Lemorton, ONERA, Toulouse, France Cesar Amaya, CRC, Canada Chunmei Liu, Sprint, USA Javier Barria, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at Imperial College, UK

Hongli Luo, Indiana University - Purdue Univerist Fort Wayne, USA

Ana Bolea-Alamanac, ESA/ESTEC, The Netherlands

Mario Marchese, University of Genoa, Italy

Michel Bousquet, SUPAERO, Toulouse, France

Antonio Martellucci, ESA, The Netherlands

Ning Chen, Freescale Semiconductor (Motorola), USA

Saverio Mascolo, Politecnico di Bari, Italy

Bernhard Collini-Nocker, University of Salzburg, Austria

Takis Mathiopoulos, Institute for Space Applications & Remote Sensing, Greece

Antonio Cuevas Casado, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain

Mihael Mohorcic, Jozef Stefan Institute, Slovenia

Franco Davoli, CNIT, Italy Carlos Mosquera, ETSE Telecomunicacion, Universidad de Vigo, Spain

Anton Donner, DLR, Germany Deock-gil Oh, ETRI, Korea Alban Duverdier, Centre National D'Etudes Spatiales (CNES), France

Fernando Perez-Fontan, University of Vigo, Spain

Gorry Fairhurst, University of Aberdeen, United Kingdom

Carlo Riva, Politecnico di Milano, Italy

Uwe-Carsten Fiebig, DLR, Germany Sandro Scalise, DLR, Germany Laurent Franck, ENST Bretagne, France Gonzalo Seco Granados, Universitat Autonoma

de Barcelona, Spain Istvan Frigyes, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary

Bingxin Tian, HuaXun Microelectronics Inc., China

Wilfried Gappmair, TUG, Graz, Austria Petia Todorova, Fraunhofer FOKUS, Germany Thierry Gayraud, LAAS, Toulouse, France Tuna Tugcu, Bogazici University, Turkey Giovanni Giambene, University of Siena, Italy Alessandro Vanelli-Coralli, University of

Bologna, Italy Felipe Gil-Castiñeira, Universidad de Vigo, Spain

Danielle Vanhoenacker-Janvier, UCL, Belgium

David Grace, University of York, United Kingdom

Markus Werner, TriaGnoSys GmbH, Germany

Boris Gremont, University of Portsmouth, United Kingdom

Shuo Yang, Google, USA

Sastri Kota, Harris Corporation, USA Boon Sain Yeo, Wavex Technologies, Singapore Frederic La coste, CNES, France Chunming Zhao, Freescale Semiconductor

(Motorola), USA Dong Jin Lee, High Gain Antenna Co., Ltd., Korea

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IWSSC 2008 REVIEWERS

Guray Acar, University of Surrey, United Kingdom

Elisa Duca, Italian Space Agency, Italy

Fatih Alagoz, Bogazici University, Turkey Bernard Durin, EADS-Astrium, France Eric Alberty, EADS Astrium, France Alban Duverdier, Centre National D’Etudes

Spatiales (CNES), France Cesar Amaya, Communications Research Centre Canada, Canada

Mohamad El Masri, LAAS Toulouse - CNRS, France

Javier Barria, Imperial College London, United Kingdom

Gorry Fairhurst, University of Aberdeen, United Kingdom

David Benmayor, National Observatory of Athens, Greece

Linghang Fan, University of Surrey, United Kingdom

Matteo Berioli, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany

Laurent Feral, “Universite Paul Sabatier, Toulouse”, France

Pascal Berthou, “Toulouse University of Science, LAAS-CNRS”, France

Uwe-Carsten Fiebig, German Aerospace Research Center (DLR), Germany

Ana Bolea Alamañac, European Space Agency, The Netherlands

Laurent Franck, ENST Bretagne, France

Michel Bousquet, ISAE, France Wilfried Gappmair, Graz University of Technology, Austria

Philippe Boutry, EADS Astrium, France Thierry,Gayraud, “LAAS-CNRS, Université de Toulouse”, France

Colin Brown, CRC, Canada Giovanni Giambene, University of Siena, Italy Enzo Alberto Candreva, University of Bologna, Italy

Felipe Gil-Castiñeira, Universidad de Vigo, Spain

Carlo Capsoni, Politecnico di Milano, Italy Mathieu Gineste, Laas-CNRS, France Guillaume Carrie, ONERA, France Nicolas Girault, EADS Astrium, France Laurent Castanet, ONERA, France David Grace, University of York, United

Kingdom Pauline ML Chan, University of Bradford, United Kingdom

Snezana Hadzic, University of Siena, Italy

Ning Chen, Freescale Semiconductor, USA Tae Chul Hong, Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute, Korea

Paolo Chini, University of Siena, Italy Michael Howarth, University of Surrey, United Kingdom

Kwonhue Choi, “Yeungnam University, KOREA”, Korea

Yoola Hwang, ETRI, Korea

Stefano Cioni, University of Bologna, Italy Patricia Inigo, EADS Astrium, France Bernhard Collini-Nocker, University of Salzburg, Austria

Baptiste Jacquemin, “Toulouse University of Science, LAAS-CNRS”, France

Haitham Cruickshank, University of Surrey, United Kingdom

Nicolas Jeannin, ONERA, France

Antonio Cuevas Casado, Universität Stuttgart, Germany

Herve Jeuland, ONERA, France

Mathieu Cunche, INRIA Rhône-Alpes, France Kunseok Kang, ETRI, Korea Tomaso De Cola, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany

Zoltan Katona, German Aerospace Center, Germany

Anton Donner, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany

Hyoung-Nam Kim, Pusan National University, Korea

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Sooyoung Kim, Chonbuk National University, Korea

Jong-Min Park, Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute, Korea

Peter King, University of Surrey, United Kingdom

Cristina Parraga Niebla, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany

Christian Kissling, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany

Fernando Pérez-Fontán, University of Vigo, Spain

Bon-Jun Ku, Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute, Korea

Carlo Riva, Politecnico di Milano, Italy

Vaclav Kvicera, Czech Metrology Institute, Czech Republic

Jordi Rivera, DLR (German Aerospace Center), Germany

Jerome Lacan, ISAE, France Stefano Rosati, University of Bologna, Italy Frederic Lacoste, CNES, France Nikos Sagias, University of Peloponnese,

Greece Byong-Sun Lee, ETRI, Korea Sandro Scalise, DLR (German Aerospace

Center), Germany Dj Lee, Highgain, Korea Gonzalo Seco Granados, Universitat Autonoma

de Barcelona, Spain Ho-Jin Lee, Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute, Korea

Cheon-sig Shin, ETRI, Korea

Erich Leitgeb, TUG, Austria Dong-Joon Shin, Hanyang University, Korea Joel Lemorton, ONERA, France Zhili Sun, University of Surrey, United

Kingdom Lei Liang, University of Surrey, United Kingdom

Wonjin Sung, Sogang Univ., Korea

Hyoungsoo Lim, Electronics and Telecomm. Research Institute (ETRI), Korea

Ales Svigelj, Jozef Stefan Institute, Slovenia

Chunmei Liu, Sprint, USA Dimitri Tassetto, TriaGnoSys GmbH, Germany Gianluigi Liva, DLR (German Aerospace Center), Germany

Laurent Thomasson, Aads-Astrium, France

Hongli Luo, Indiana University - Purdue University Fort Wayne, USA

Bingxin Tian, Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne, USA

Cedric Martel, ONERA, France Petia Todorova, Fraunhofer-FOKUS, Germany Antonio Martellucci, European Space Agency, The Netherlands

Pakorn Ubolkosold, “Center for Sensorsystem (ZESS), University of Siegen”, Germany

Saverio Mascolo, Politecnico di Bari, Italy Craig Underwood, University of Surrey, United Kingdom

Emilio Matricciani, Politecnico di Milano, Italy Max van de Kamp, University of Bath, United Kingdom

Balazs Matuz, DLR, German Danielle Vanhoenacker-Janvier, Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium

Inge Melhus, SINTEF, Norway Maria Angeles Vazquez Castro, Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona, Spain

Mihael Mohorcic, Jozef Stefan Institute, Slovenia

Ruhai Wang, Lamar University, USA

Cyrille Moreau, Astrium Satellites, Germany Shuo Yang, Google Inc, USA Robert Mort, Systek Consulting Ltd, United Kingdom

Hyun Seok Yu, Samsung electronics, Korea

Carlos Mosquera, Universidad de Vigo, Spain Ana Yun, Thales Alenia Space España, Spain Frédéric Nivor, Laas-Cnrs, France Chunming Zhao, Freescale, USA DeokGil Oh, Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute, Korea

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IWSSC 2008 Program at a Glance Wednesday 1 October 13h00 Registration 13h45-14h00 Welcome (Room A) 14h00-15h30 Tutorial 1 (Room A)

F. Perez-Fontan Tutorial 3 (Room B)

L. Wood 15h30-16h00 Coffee break 16h00-17h30 Tutorial 2 (Room A)

B. Collini-Nocker Tutorial 4 (Room B)

M. Werner 18h30 Welcome reception Thursday 2 October 8h30 Registration 9h00-9h30 Opening (Room A), Chairs & Local Executives 9h30-10h10 Keynote Speech (Room A), Magali Vaissière 10h10-10h30 WISE Session (Room A), Erina Ferro and Franco Davoli 10h30-11h00 Coffee break 11h00-12h45 PhD Session 1 (Room A)

Transport Protocols Regular Session 1

(Room B) Channel Modelling

Special Session 1 (Room C) ETSI Broadband Satellite

Multimedia: Past, Present and Future

12h45-14h00 Lunch break 14h00-15h45 Regular Session 2

(Room A) Satellite Networking - 1

PhD Session 2 (Room B) Channel Models

Special Session 2 (Room C) OURSES Project: Medical

Services in Rural Areas Using New Satellite Communications

Technologies 15h45-16h15 Coffee break 16h15-18h15 Panel session (Room A) 19h30 Banquet Friday 3 October 8h30-10h15 Regular Session 3

(Room A) Satellite Networking - 2

PhD Session 3 (Room B) Satellite Navigation -

Synchronization Issues

Special Session 3 (Room C) IPv6 Satellite Networking for

Satellites – The Satsix Experience

10h15-10h45 Coffee break 10h45-11h30 Invited Plenary Speaker (Room A), Kalyan Bandyopadhyay 11h30-12h45 PhD Session 4 (Room A)

Radio Resource Management

PhD Session 5 (Room B) Coding and Modulation

PhD Session 6 (Room C) Satellite Orbit and Antenna

Technology 12h45-14h00 Lunch break 14h00-15h45 PhD Session 7 (Room A)

Fade Mitigation Techniques

Regular Session 4 (Room B)

Modulation and Coding

PhD Session 8 (Room C) Satellite/Terrestrial Hybrid

Systems 15h45-16h00 Best paper award (Room A)

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IWSSC 2008 Keynote Speech - ARTES, the ESA Telecommunication Programme to enhance the competitiveness of the European Space Industry

October 2, 9:30 - 10:10, Room A Magali Vaissière, ESTEC, Noordwijk, The Netherlands Abstract: The ambitious ESA Telecommunications programme (ARTES) has as primary objective the enhancement of the competitiveness of European Space Industry involved in the COMSAT sector on the ever more challenging world market. The first priority of this programme is to support the Space, Ground and User Segment Suppliers and Operators, i.e. the supply side. We call this the «Technology-Push» approach of ESA. It is based on the understanding of the needs of Industry and Operators and on the analysis of the trends for the different Market Segments that will be presented in this keynote. The second priority goes beyond the mainly technological dimension of ARTES and calls for new initiatives enlarging the present users community to stimulate the demand of new products and services. This approach ensures more growth and sustainability of the Space Industry by expanding space activities into new addressable markets through user-focused initiatives. The most recent initiatives are focused on the Aviation Authorities, GMES, Security Institutions, etc, and selected ones will be detailed. Biography: Magali Vaissiere has been nominated Director of Telecommunications and Integrated Applications at the European Space Agency in June 2008 where she was the Head of Telecommunications Department. Before joining the European Space Agency, she was with EADS-Astrium , where she occupied different management position, as Civil Institutional Marketing Manager from mid 2002 to mid 2005, R&D & Product Strategy Division Manager in the Telecommunications Satellites Business Unit, from mid 2000 to mid 2002, Head of the Satellite Network Engineering from mid 98 to mid 2000, after being involved in Telecommunications System engineering activities from 1955. With the former Matra-Marconi-Space company that she joined in 1980 (at that time Matra Espace), she was Responsible for R&D Coordination. From 1981-1990, she was working with Thomson-CSF Radars as a Signal Processing engineer, then Radar System engineer and eventually Responsible for a Common Products Department. Magali graduated as an engineer in 1980 from Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications de Paris (now Telecom ParisTech). Then she spent one year in USA where she obtained a Master of Sciences in Electrical Engineering from University of Stanford (1981). She holds an executive MBA from the Centre de Perfectionnement aux Affaires (Paris) obtained in 1995. She has been awarded the «prix Irène Joliot-Curie » in 2007 for her oustanding career as a woman in industry (parcours femme-entreprise) by the French Ministry of Research. She holds the French Distinction « Légion d’Honneur ».

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IWSSC 2008 Invited Plenary Speaker - GSAT-4, a step towards Indian Advance Communications Satellite

October 2, 10:45 - 11:30, Room A Kalyan Bandyopadhyay, Space Applications Centre, ISRO, India Abstract: India is increasingly using space technology for its development of which satellite communications is a major component. This has enhanced the demand for more satellite bandwidth and venture into higher radio spectrum. To learn the behaviour of 20/30 GHz band over India that has a tropical climate and to test new technologies like on board antenna with high gain and shaped spot beams, onboard processing and switching etc., ISRO is getting ready to launch an advance communications technology satellite, GSAT-4. This program also involves development of various types of ground terminals and demonstration of newer applications like satellite based Grid computing etc. Applications payloads that support Indian satellite navigation program GAGAN is also a part of this satellite. Knowledge gained during this mission will help India to plan for future satellite missions in this region. Biography: Dr. Kalyankumar Bandyopadhyay obtained his PhD in engineering from Jadavpur University, Kolkata. He is a senior Scientist at the Space Applications Centre of ISRO. He has served ISRO for more than 35 years in the field of satellite communications in various capacities from R&D engineer to system designer and Project Directors. From January 2007 to July 2008 he was the Director of Post Graduate course on satellite communications and on satellite navigation in the Centre for Space Science and Technology Education in Asia and the Pacific (affiliated to UN). He was involved in many pioneering activities of Indian satellite communications program at different capacities. Some of them are, • Communications Systems for Disaster Management that developed Distress

Alert System for fishermen, DTH based Cyclone warning system for Indian coastal villages and Tsunami data collection network part of Tsunami Early Warning System in Indian Ocean Region.

• He was the leader of the team that developed the TEC model over Indian region that is used in the Indian wide area augmentation system for satellite navigation, GAGAN.

• Technology demonstration Project to introduce digital TV, digital sound and data broadcast in the Indian satellite system.

• System Definition for INSAT Mobile Satellite System. • India’s first indigenously developed VSAT pilot project, Satellite Based Rural

Telegraphy Network for North-East Region of India in late 1980’s. • India’s first satellite based Computer Networking Experiment, COMNEX, using

ATS-6 and Symphony satellites in 1970’s. • Represented ISRO in Asia Pacific Regional Space Agency Forum at Jakarta in

December 2006, in GPS summit conference at Munich in 2003, in UN workshop on Bridging the Digital Divide in 2000 at Kulalampur, in International Astronautical Conference at Hyderabad in 2007 and at Turin in 1997.

He has several papers in the peer reviewed journals. His present research interest is in microwave propagation studies and its mitigation techniques in ionized and non-ionized media and in Railways LMSS.

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IWSSC 2008 WISE Session - WISE: A Web Information Service Window for Knowledge Management in Satellite Communications October 2, 10:10 - 10:30, Room A Erina Ferro, ISTI-CNR, Pisa, Italy Franco Davoli, DIST-University of Genoa, and CNIT-University of Genoa Research Unit, Genoa, Italy

on behalf of the SatNEx Community

http://www.satnex.org The SatNEx Community is constituted by 24 Institutions working in satellite communications, spread all over Europe, and aggregated in the framework of the Satellite Network of Excellence (NoE) named SatNEx II. The primary goal of the SatNEx Community is to achieve long-lasting integration of European research in satellite communications and networking and to develop a common base of knowledge, thus contributing to the realization of the European Research Area. The detailed structure of SatNEx II Joint Program of Activities (JPA) on long-lasting integration, jointly executed research, and spreading of excellence can be found on the NoE’s website. Within the SatNEx II JPA, the SatNEx Community has decided to implement and sustain a Web Information Service (WISE), http://wise.cnit.it/, as a tool offered to the external world – individuals and institutions – to provide easy access to knowledge and expertise in all areas of satellite communications. As stated in the SatNEx II Technical Annex, “…the intention of WISE is to provide a service for the satellite community at large, especially towards all those that operate outside the NoE. Though being embedded in the SatNEx II web site, the WISE service has a totally different function, which, in a sense, may be viewed as a SatNEx II “business card” to the external world. It will be an interactive window in the website public area, by means of which all those that need access to knowledge, general or specific, in satellite communications, can search the database, ask questions, find expertise and consulting.” Indeed, one of the main goals of SatNEx – since its inception in 2004, and throughout phase I (2004-2006) and phase II (2006-2009) – has been that of creating a durable community of experts in Satellite Communications and Networking (SatComms), with long-lasting integration and cooperation. This goal encompasses spreading of excellence, education, and jointly executed research. More than this, the community that stemmed from the SatNEx NoE aims at being open towards the outside world in promoting SatComms in every respect. Though this community is originally formed by Research Institutions, it has always maintained strict and fruitful contacts with Industry. It is particularly with the industrial and business world in mind that the WISE platform has been created. It is conceived as a means to foster ties between industry and academic research, as an open forum for SatComms, and as a source of reference for anyone working in the field. One should take advantage of using WISE if one has an interest in SatComms, be it connected with one’s own every day's working life, with one’s quest for a strategic vision of the future of SatComms, with the need to find expertise and advice, with sharing ideas and views with a wider community, with personal curiosity in a specific problem, or even with the goal of contributing to the enlargement of this knowledge basis, by becoming an active member of the community and putting one’s own expertise at work. In general, WISE is aimed at offering services to various user categories: • Those who need or want to enter the satellite transmission world; • Those who have problems in some specific aspect and are looking for expertise; • Curious people; • People who have new ideas or possible solutions and would like to discuss them with other experts;

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• People who want to enter in contact with experts in specific fields and want to know Institutions working in SatComms and possibly create new consortia.

WISE offers a set of services that users can exploit via any Internet Web Browser. For the time begin, all currently available services are free of charge. The principal services provided are: • The Search Tool, whose mission is to gather information on the institutions forming the SatNEx

community, as far as their involvement in satellite communications is concerned; • The Question Board, by which any Internet user can post a query to the SatNEx community, regarding

one of the topics that are part of the expertise belonging to the community; • The Competence Check-In, where non-members of the SatNEx community (individuals or institutions)

can introduce themselves to the SatNEx community and offer their expertise; • The Library Service, by which authorized people may download all common publications; • The Statistical Tool, to continuously monitor and report the activities of WISE. The aim of the WISE presentation is to introduce the tool and give a live demonstration of its capabilities, in order to encourage the audience – and industrial stakeholders in particular – to take actively part in the enlargement and exploitation of its knowledge base. The WISE Web page is accessible at the following address: http://wise.cnit.it/

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IWSSC 2008 Tutorial 1 - Characterization and modelling of the LMS channel October 1, 14:00 - 15:30, Room A Fernando Perez-Fontan, University of Vigo, Spain Abstract: The land mobile satellite propagation channel (LMS) is mainly impaired by shadowing and multipath, the same as conventional cellular channels, however it presents some particularities that make it necessary to study it on its own. A review of the channel modelling basics will be made before going on to analyze in detail its relevant features and application scenarios. Statistical and deterministic techniques will be addressed as well as the generation of synthetic time series for simulation purposes. Especial emphasis will be placed on how availability may be increased by using satellite diversity and gap-fillers. The satellite-to-indoor channel will also be studied in some detail. Other scenarios such the aeronautical mobile channel will also be discussed. Biography: Fernando Pérez-Fontán. Born in Villagarcía de Arosa, Spain. He obtained his degree in Telecommunications Engineering in 1982 from the Technical University of Madrid and his PhD in 1992 from the same university. After working in industry since 1984 he became an assistant professor at the University of Vigo in 1988. In 1993 he became an associate professor and in 1999 a full professor at the Signal Theory and Communications Department of the University of Vigo. He lectures in Radiocommunication Systems, especially in terrestrial fixed and mobile system related topics. He is the author of a number of books and journal papers and has been the leader in several projects funded by public and private entities. He participates in ITU-R WG3 on Propagation Modeling. He has been Management Committee Member of EU' COST 255 and 280, and currently participates with the same role in COST 297. IWSSC 2008 Tutorial 2 - Encapsulation matters: from MPE over ULE to GSE October 1, 16:00 - 17:30, Room A Bernhard Collini-Nocker, University of Salzburg, Austria Abstract: Advanced modulation and coding schemes have the potential to optimally exploit signal quality at receivers and provide adaptive forward error correction when and to the extent needed. Consequently, data fields are of variable length - short when more FEC is required and longer when less FEC is necessary. On top of this base band layer a suitable, yet flexible and efficient encapsulation protocol should provide all reasonable functionality to allow for carriage of IP packets and other network layer packets, as well as support for bridging Ethernet frames of any kind. Whereas in the first generation DVB carriers only the MultiProtocol Encapsulation (MPE) is officially supported, the IETF Unidirectional Lightweight Encapsulation (ULE) has gained attractiveness and served as precursor for the Generic Stream Encapsulation, envisaged as encapsulation for all second generation DVB carriers. This tutorial will highlight the design issues for an encapsulation protocol, introduce MPE, provide the rationale for ULE, focus on the role of extension headers, and finally discuss in detail GSE and its fragmentation. Biography: Bernhard Collini-Nocker received his master degree in Computing Sciences and Systems Analysis in 1993 and his doctor degree in Applied Informatics 1998. Since the early nineties he is university assistant and research associate responsible for technical activities in numerous ESA and EU funded projects. His research interests include multimedia networking, IP based multimedia protocols, applications over digital video broadcasting bearer and IP-multicast applications.

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IWSSC 2008 Tutorial 3 - Satellite Networks I: Constellations October 1, 14:00 - 15:30, Room B Lloyd Wood, Cisco Systems Global Government Solutions Group, Bedfont Lakes, London Abstract: A tutorial discussing and illustrating the geometrical and orbital choices for multiple satellites, and how these choices and the resulting satellite coverage and diversity play into system design choices for various satellite applications. This tutorial describes these choices for constellations for applications such as communication, positioning, and remote sensing, and highlights some of the tradeoffs that result from these choices. Live simulations of these constellations will be provided using the SaVi satellite simulation software (http://savi.sf.net/). Biography: Lloyd Wood is a Chartered Engineer and a space initiatives manager in Cisco Systems' Global Goverment Solutions Group, where he has responsibility for CLEO, the Cisco router in Low Earth Orbit. Lloyd spent some years contributing to the Internet Engineering Task Force and modifying IOS, Cisco's router software... so he's gone on to fly his own code in space. Working with colleagues from NASA Glenn Research Center and Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd, Lloyd achieved the first tests from orbit of IPv6 and of the delay-tolerant networking bundle protocol. Lloyd gained his PhD from the Centre for Communication Systems Research at the University of Surrey, where he researched internetworking and satellite constellations. IWSSC 2008 Tutorial 4 - Satellite Networks II: System Design and Applications October 1, 16:00 - 17:30, Room B Markus Werner, TriaGnoSys GmbH, Germany Abstract: Key challenges for the deployment of reasonably tailored regional and global satellite systems are the system design and capacity dimensioning to meet the addressed scenario and targeted market/traffic requirements. In the first part, this tutorial presents a coherent methodology for the design and capacity dimensioning of a multiple spot-beam GEO satellite system targeting a generic multi-service communications market. The design considerations are then complemented by looking into some selected network design issues (routing, handover) for non-GEO satellite networks, based on the fundamental material presented in the tutorial Satellite Networks I: Constellations. In a second part, the tutorial highlights the use of current and emerging multi-regional or global satellite networks for selected markets, including aeronautical passenger communications, emerging satellite-based air traffic management, maritime passenger and cargo-tracking services, and land-mobile emergency communications. The concept of backhauling local wireless networks via satellite will be explained, being one way to achieve truly integrated terrestrial/satellite communications, and thus deemed to be a key factor to success of all such application scenarios. The tutorial concludes presenting some perspectives for the future of both tailored and integrated/multipurpose satellite networks. Biography: Markus Werner received the Dipl.-Ing. degree from Darmstadt Technical University, Darmstadt, Germany, in 1991, and the Ph.D. degree from Munich Technical University, Munich, Germany, in 2002, both in electrical engineering. He is with TriaGnoSys GmbH, a satellite and aeronautical communications company, as managing director since 2002. From 1991 to 2005, he was with the Institute of Communications and Navigation of the German Aerospace Center (DLR) as research scientist, project manager and group leader. His project experience includes a range of national, ESA, and EU projects. He has been national delegate to the COST Actions 227, 252, and 272. In 2004 and 2005, he was project coordinator of the European Network of Excellence in Satellite Communications (SatNEx). His main R&D activities cover the broad range of modern satellite system design, including technical and business aspects, with some focus on multiservice traffic engineering, capacity dimensioning, and satellite-based systems and solutions for aeronautical and maritime services.

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IWSSC 2008 Panel Session - Satellite Communications After-Tomorrow: A Visionary Panel... from an Unusual Perspective October 2, 16:15 - 18:15, Room A Panel Chair: Sandro Scalise - DLR, Germany Chairperson: Sooyoung Kim - Chonbuk National University Participants: • Isabelle Buret - Thales Alenia Space • Miriam Catalán - STM Spain • Sophie Defever - EADS Astrium • Erina Ferro - SatNEx • Maria Guta - ESA • Christine Lerquin - SES Astra • Elisabeth Weller – Eutelsat Abstract: After several years of moderate growth the Satcom Industry has re-bounced in 2006. The amount of satellites that have been contracted and their capacity has made of 2006 one of the best years in history.

In addition to the usual strengths of SatCom, such as nearly global worldwide coverage and cost-effective broadcast and multicast capabilities, new opportunities are arising from the communications needs of public institutions, from the robustness of satellite networks in case of disasters and emergency scenarios and from the need for truly ubiquitous and worldwide broadband connectivity. In parallel to these trends, wireless terrestrial communications is very quickly progressing towards increasingly high data rates. On the one side, this is creating new opportunities for integration, on the other side this might represent a serious threat for the consolidation of the positive trend mentioned above, especially if associated with the usual weaknesses of SatCom, such as the relatively high cost per bit for unicast services, due to both terminal cost and achievable spectral efficiency with today technologies.

The aim of this panel discussion is to provide a long term, visionary and open-minded perspective for the future of SatCom:

• Is the vision of a global satellite system serving both commercial and institutional markets sustainable?

• Is integration with wireless terrestrial systems a must and how will this affect the future evolution of SatCom?

• How could this be conjugated with SatCom today specificity?

• Which new applications and services might make SatCom unique and indispensable for the future of ICT society?

• Which are the enabling technological advances for that?

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Panelists Biographies:

Sandro Scalise, Panel Chair Biography: Sandro Scalise was born in Utrecht, Holland in April 1973. In July 1999 he graduated in Electronic Engineering specialising in Telecommunications (with honours) from University of Ferrara, Italy. In 2007, he received his PhD (summa cum laude) from University of Vigo, Spain. Since 2001, he is within the Institute for Communications and Navigation, DLR (German Aerospace Centre), Germany, where, from October 2004 to June 2008, he has been leading the Mobile Satellite Systems Group. Since July 2008, he is leading the Digital Networks Section. His research activity deals with forward error correction and synchronization schemes for mobile satellite applications, land mobile satellite channel modelling and link performance evaluation. He is co-author of more than 50 international journal and conference papers, co-chairman of the 3rd and 4th Advanced Satellite Mobile Systems Conferences in 2006 and 2008, and editor of a chapter devoted to satellite channel impairments within the book Digital Satellite Communications, published by Springer. Since June 2006, he is leading the R&D Working Group of ISI European Technology Platform. Sooyoung Kim, Chairperson Biography: Sooyoung Kim received the B.S degree in electrical and electronics engineering from KAIST, Korea, in 1990. After having worked Satellite Communication Technology Division, ETRI, Korea from February 1990 to September 1991, she received the M.Sc and the Ph.D degree in electrical and electronics engineering from University of Surrey, U.K in 1992 and 1995 respectively. From November 1994 to June 1996 she was employed as a research fellow at the Centre for Satellite Engineering Research, University of Surrey, U.K. In 1996 she re-joined the Satellite Communication Technology Division, ETRI, Korea, and worked as a team leader until February 2004 to develop efficient transmission techniques for digital satellite communication systems. She is now an associate professor in Chonbuk National University. Her research interests include modulation and coding schemes for digital satellite communication systems. She has been working on ITU-R since 2000, and has contributed to make radio interface standard of satellite component in the IMT-2000 system. Now, she is actively working on Working Party 4B of ITU-R, and she was appointed as an international standardization expert in Korea. She has been a Technical Program Committee (TPC) member at various conferences, and co-chaired satellite systems track at VTC 2008 spring.

Isabelle Buret Biography: Isabelle Buret is currently at the head of the Advanced Telecom Satellite Systems section, in the Research Department of Alcatel Alenia Space in Toulouse. She graduated from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications of Paris in 1990. She has been working for 16 years in space telecommunications, starting at NTT Personal communication Systems labs, in Japan, working on modulation schemes for satellite access networks. She joined Alcatel Space in 1993 as system engineer on the GLOBALSTAR program. She then moved to satellite OBP equipments design and development, being responsible for digital front-end receivers developments for WORLDSTAR DAB processor and STENTOR DVB processor. In 1997 she became in charge of R&D

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studies on next generation OBP products for satellite multimedia applications. Since 2000, she has been leading research activities on advanced telecommunication satellite systems, addressing future broadband and mobile satellite systems.

Miriam Catalán Biography: In September 2004, she started her professional carrier at Indra, as a Java Development Engineer and then, in April 2005, she became Management Support Engineer involved in the coordination, planning and resources management of the Mobile Services Department. In December 2005 she joint HISPASAT as Project Engineer, involved in SATLIFE and SATSIX projects (6th European Framework Program), together with other ESA projects such as “DVB-RCS opportunities in Latin America and Africa” (ESA, Telefónica I+D) or “Multinational Telecom Adaptors” (ESA, Telespazio). In June 2007 she became SATLIFE Project Manager (developing new applications and services based on AMERHIS), coordinating more than ten European entities in the satellite sector, closing the project with success. Being also responsible for other R&D National & ESA Projects, Miriam has represented HISPASAT in high level forums such as DVB-Technical Module, pushing for new satellite standards as DVB-RCS+M and DVB-SH. She also represented the Spanish Satellite Operator in ISI (Integrated Satellite Initiative) for the 7th Framework Program. In December 2007, she signs for STM Spain, assuming the Management of Strategy and Innovation, leading UMO R&D Project for Mobile Broadband Communications for land vehicles. In May 2008, she starts also to be in charge of the Operations Department, coordinating the 24 x 7 service and responsible for the definition of operation procedures. In July 2008, she becomes Head of Strategy & Operations, leading internal Implementation projects for STM clients, pushing the development of services with multispot satellites, and defining the R&D strategy identifying new business opportunities for STM Spain. She is also member of the Program Committee for the ASMS (Advance Satellite Mobile Systems) Conference 2008 and Telecom I+D, the most important event in Telecommunication R&D in Spain. EDUCATION: University Polytechnic of Madrid, Post graduate course on satellite communications (2007); University Carlos III of Madrid, Telecommunication Engineer (2005); Reading University (UK), 4th year of Telecommunication Engineer (2003); Lycèe Sainte Marie des Champs, Toulouse (France), High School.

Sophie Defever Biography: Sophie Defever is graduated from Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications (Paris, France). She joined Matra Marconi Space (now EADS Astrium) in 1990. In the Telecom Systems department of Telecom Satellites Business division, she was involved in mobile and broadband advanced projects, and responsible for satellite system architecture activity in the past few years. She is now leading the TANGO project, one European Commission FP6 project dealing with telecommunications for GMES.

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Erina Ferro Biography: Erina Ferro received her Laurea degree with distinction in Computer Science from the University of Pisa, Italy, in 1975. Since 1976 Dr. Ferro was with CNR (National Research Council), and she is currently employed as a Director of Research at the Institute CNR-ISTI. The National Research Council (CNR) is a public governmental organization, whose headquarter is in Rome; its duty is to carry out, promote, spread, transfer, and improve research activities in the main sectors of knowledge growth and its applications for the scientific, technological, economic and social development of the Country. The CNR Scientific Network is constituted by about 107 Institutes, aggregated in 11 thematic Departments. ISTI belongs to the ICT (Information and Communication Technologies) Department. In 1980 Dr. Ferro started working on digital satellite communications. She participated to several international and national projects where some systems co-designed by her were implemented and used on the Eutelsat, Olympus, and Italsat satellites. Working in the TDMA satellite access schemes, field she obtained two patents, in 1989 and 1996, respectively, together with other colleagues of her group. Dr. Ferro is head of the Wireless Networks Laboratory (WNLAB) at ISTI, and since 2006 she is responsible of the “Devices and Technologies for Telematic Networks” scientific sector of the ICT Department of CNR (www.ict.cnr.it). Her main research activities cover sensor networks, wireless networks, ad-hoc networks, satellite networks, and the interconnection aspects. She is associated editor of the International Journals on Communication Systems (IJCS). She is reviewer for several international journals and congresses. She authored about hundred international journal and congress papers.

Maria Guta Biography: Maria Guta is Head of Commercial Applications Section in the Strategy & Future Programmes Division of the Directorate of Telecommunications & Integrated Applications, ESA. In this position she contributes to the management of ARTES1 –the ARTES strategic element, covering mainly the commercial applications. She prepares and implements annual work plans covering study activities which aim to analyse and develop new system concepts and techniques for advanced satellite missions and foster the use of satellite solutions for user driven applications. She interfaces with external relevant stakeholders (space and non-space organisations and entities) to develop common understanding for the requirements for future satellite systems considering short, medium and long term perspectives. She coordinates standardisation activities in liaison with international bodies and specific users groups, especially those covering the broadand multimedia sector, advanced TV (3D TV & mobile TV) and finally frequency spectrum management sector. She has 18 years of experience in satcom field in Europe. In her previous positions, she was with Eutelsat in the Systems Studies Division and the Space Engineering SPA in the Telecom Programmes Division.

Christine Lerquin Biography: Christine Leurquin is VP, Institutional Relations at SES S.A. Positioning the Company within the European Union and other European institutions, such as ESA or OECD, she regards regulations, provides political support, and engages in setting-up research and Development and institutional projects. She follows the European Institutions' political issues and debates of interest to her company, especially those concerning the satellite broadband and

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mobile multimedia sector. She is also the key person in the company as regards the European Satellite navigation project called Galileo. She has 22 years of experience in the satellite telecommunications field in Europe. In her previous position, she was the CEO of a company which she started and which introduced new satellite services in Belgium. She turned it into a successful and profitable business. With her ability to speak various languages, Mrs Leurquin has been able to market in the areas that services are not yet established and she provides SES with that extra incentive to attaining clients in the regions. Career Steps: Vice-President, European Programs, SES (2006-2007); Senior Manager, European Programs, SES-GLOBAL (1999-2006), President and CEO, Sait Videohouse SA (1992-98) ; Head of Space Data Division, Sait Systems SA (1989-92) Associations and Accomplishments: Founder of ESOA and Chairman of the Executive Committee of ESOA (European Satellite Operators Association)( 2004-2006), Regular Expert in Advisory groups, European Institutions. Education: University of Chicago, Management Courses (2001); H.E.C. OF St-Louis, Brussels, M.B.A. (1987-89), Germanic Languages (English/ German/ Passive Dutch/ American Culture), Master's degree, ULB, (1983)

Elisabeth Weller Biography: The group she manages today at Eutelsat , develops, engineers and puts in place new interactive and broadcasting multimedia products (eg dstar, tooway, bouquet bis). The group as well takes care of the business development for institutions and public markets, in the fixed or mobile environment. Contributions to ESOA and standardization bodies are under her group’s responsibility and pave the way for the future products and services. She has been working for more than 30 years in the telecommunications over satellite field. Her previous responsibilities were:

• New missions and system coordinator in Eutelsat multimedia department on the period 01/2000-12/2003, where she was in charge of the

o Development of the platform for the Eutelsat interactive internet star services.

o Elaboration of the technical features and specification and testing of the mesh interactive data networks.

o Participation in the new satellite missions definition (eg Skyplex, eurobird) from the ground segment and network perspective

• Network aspects of satellite systems senior engineer in Eutelsat technical department during the period 01/1986-12/1999, where she was in charge of

o ITU-T and ETSI participation in the elaboration and development of specifications and standards for satellite systems in the ISDN, ATM domain.

o Projects for ESA and EU. • System Development and design engineer with Thomson CSF and then

Alcatel space during the period 09/1977-12/1986, where she was in charge of the design and development of a 120Mbit/s TDMA trunk telephony system, amongst other subjects.

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IWSSC 2008 Detailed Technical Program October 2, 11:00 - 12:45, Room A PhD Session 1: Transport Protocols CHAIR: Laurent Franck (ENST Bretagne, France) Evaluation of TCP Variants and Bandwidth on Demand over Next Generation Satellite Network Songrith Kittiperachol; Zhili Sun; Haitham Cruickshank Improvements in DCCP congestion control for satellite links Golam Sarwar; Roksana Boreli; Guillaume Jourjon; Emmanuel Lochin Cross-Layer Optimization of TCP Throughput for DVB-S2 Links Joan Enric Barceló Lladó; Giovanni Giambene; María Ángeles Vázquez Castro October 2, 11:00 - 12:45, Room B Regular Session 1: Channel Modelling CHAIR: Uwe-Carsten Fiebig (German Aerospace Research Center (DLR), Germany) In-Cabin Propagation Measurements and Comparison with EM Techniques Nektarios Moraitis; Philip Constantinou; Fernando Pérez-Fontán; Pavel Valtr Modeling of Wave Scattering from Rough Building Surface for Land Mobile Satellite Channel Pavel Valtr; Fernando Pérez-Fontán On the Spatial Structure of Rainfall Rate: Merging Radar and Rain Gauge Data Adolfo Núñez; Vicente Pastoriza; Fernando Machado; Perfecto Mariño; Fernando Pérez-Fontán; Uwe-Carsten Fiebig; Miguel Carpacho A relationship between phase delay and attenuation due to rain Emilio Matricciani Validation of Rain Attenuation Time Series Synthesizers for Temperate Area - On the Enhanced Maseng-Bakken Model Guillaume Carrie; Laurent Castanet; Frédéric Lacoste October 2, 11:00 - 12:45, Room C Special Session 1: ETSI Broadband Satellite Multimedia: Past, Present and Future SPECIAL SESSION ORGANIZERS: Matteo Berioli (German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany) and Haitham Cruickshank (University of Surrey, United Kingdom) CHAIR: Matteo Berioli (German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany) The ETSI BSM Architecture for Quality of Service Matteo Berioli; Robert Mort C2P Standardization Work in ETSI SES BSM Carla Salas; Ana Yun; Augustin Iuroas; Micheline Lambert Network Management Architectures for Broadband Satellite Multimedia Systems Robert Mort; Matteo Berioli; Haitham Cruickshank Mobility Management for BSM Yim-Fun Hu; Pauline ML Chan

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Cross-Layer Issues in DVB-S2/-RCS and BSM Model Giovanni Giambene October 2, 14:00 - 15:45, Room A Regular Session 2: Satellite Networking - 1 CHAIR: Anton Donner (German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany) Channel Allocation Algorithm for Novel Polarization Tracking Free Ku-band Mobile Satellite Communication Systems Katsuya Nakahira; Kiyoshi Kobayashi; Kohei Ohata Use of Store and Forward metrics for service-oriented routing in Satellite Constellations Hugo Cruz-Sánchez; Laurent Franck; André-Luc Beylot Channel-Aware Scheduling Algorithms with Channel Prediction for Reliable Multicast Data Transmission over Geostationary Satellite Networks Aduwati Sali; Guray Acar; Barry Evans; Giovanni Giambene Rethinking Reliability for Long-Delay Networks Jérôme Lacan; Emmanuel Lochin October 2, 14:00 - 15:45, Room B PhD Session 2: Channel Models CHAIR: Fernando Pérez-Fontán (University of Vigo, Spain) Testing the Markov Property of the Multipath Fading Process László Csurgai-Horváth; János Bitó Channel State Modeling for Single and Multiple Satellite Broadcasting Systems Marko Milojević; Martin Haardt; Ernst Eberlein; Albert Heuberger A Large Scale, High Resolution Channel Model For Propagation Impairment Techniques Design and Optimization Nicolas Jeannin; Laurent Féral; Laurent Castanet; Joël Lemorton; Frédéric Lacoste; Henri Sauvageot Evaluation of Fog Attenuation Results for Optical Wireless Links in Free Space Muhammad Saleem Awan; Erich Leitgeb; Marzuki Marzuki; Muhammad Saeed Khan; Farukh Nadeem; Carlo Capsoni October 2, 14:00 - 15:45, Room C Special Session 2: OURSES Project: Medical Services in Rural Areas Using New Satellite Communications Technologies SPECIAL SESSION ORGANIZERS: Patricia Inigo (EADS Astrium, France) and Pascal Berthou (Toulouse University of Science, LAAS-CNRS, France) CHAIR: Patricia Inigo (EADS Astrium, France) OURSES: Medical assistance over Satellite Patricia Inigo; Nicolas Girault; Bernard Durin; Greet Verelst Telemedicine applications in OURSES project Corinne Mailhes; Alfonso Prieto; Bernard Comet; Helene de Bernard; Eric Campo; Sylvain Bonhomme OURSES: Efficiency of IP Encapsulation over DVB-S2 Links Nicolas Girault; Nizar Jegham; Nicolas Lerouge; Cédric Le Guern; André-Luc Beylot

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Quality of Service Evaluation in Satellite Systems Tou Ihsane; Pascal Berthou; Mathieu Gineste; Thierry Gayraud VoIP over a DVB-S2 ACM link Nicolas Girault; Nizar Jegham; André-Luc Beylot; Gilles Roussel; Stéphane Lohier; Cédric Le Guern October 3, 8:30 - 10:15, Room A Regular Session 3: Satellite Networking - 2 CHAIR: Bernhard Collini-Nocker (University of Salzburg, Austria) XCP in a geostationary satellite context Julien Fasson; Fabrice Arnal; Fabrice Hobaya Bringing multimedia services to digital-divide end-users with smart 2-way satellite technologies: the UNIC EC FP6 project Gabriele Boccolini; Marco Luise; Benoit Garnier; Jean-Michel Merour Scheduling TCP-friendly Flows over a Satellite Network Raffaello Secchi; Arjuna Sathiaseelan; Gorry Fairhurst FIRST: Future Internet – A Role for Satellite Technology Gorry Fairhurst; Luca Caviglione; Bernhard Collini-Nocker October 3, 8:30 - 10:15, Room B PhD Session 3: Satellite Navigation - Synchronization Issues CHAIR: Marie-Laure Boucheret (IRIT/Tesa, France) Protection and Fundamental Vulnerability of GNSS Panagiotis Papadimitratos; Aleksandar Jovanovic Regulatory Analysis of Potential Candidate Bands for the Modernisation of GNSS Systems in 2015-2020 Paul Thevenon; Michel Bousquet; Christophe Macabiau; Thomas Grelier; Lionel Ries; Daniel Roviras Open-Loop Analysis of an Error Detector for Blind Symbol Timing Recovery Using Baud-Rate Samples Markus Flohberger; Wilfried Gappmair; Otto Koudelka October 3, 8:30 - 10:15, Room C Special Session 3: IPv6 Networking for Satellites - The Satsix Experience SPECIAL SESSION ORGANIZERS: Haitham Cruickshank (University of Surrey, United Kingdom) and Gorry Fairhurst (University of Aberdeen, United Kingdom) CHAIR: Haitham Cruickshank (University of Surrey, United Kingdom) SATSIX IPv6/IPv4 IPTV and MCU trials: Results and Analysis Isaac Moreno; Ana Yun; Carla Salas; José Alfonso Torrijos Gijón; Aurora Ramos ULE Security Implementation in PLATINE Lei Liang; Haitham Cruickshank; Linghang Fan; Zhili Sun; Sunil Iyengar; Michel Mazzella; Didier Barvaux Analysis of IPv6 Encapsulation over ULE and MPE using a Regenerative Satellite Payload Borja de la Cuesta; Ana Yun; Gorry Fairhurst; Bernhard Collini-Nocker; Christian Prähauser

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Emulation of the SatSix Mobility Architecture Fabrice Arnal; Cedric Baudoin; Baptiste Jacquemin; Thierry Gayraud SATSIX Cross-layer Architecture Inge Melhus; Fabrice Arnal; Linghang Fan; Thierry Gayraud; Frédéric Nivor; Mathieu Gineste; Antonio Pietrabissa October 3, 11:30 - 12:45, Room A PhD Session 4: Radio Resource Management CHAIR: Giovanni Giambene (University of Siena, Italy) Multimedia Traffic Scheduling in DVB-S2 Networks with Mobile Users Gorry Fairhurst; Giovanni Giambene; Samuele Giannetti; Cristina Párraga Niebla; Aduwati Sali Performance Study of a Lightweight DVB-RCS Handover Scheme for Vehicular GEO Networks Fabio Lattanzi; Guray Acar; Barry Evans DVB-RCS Return link Radio Resource Management for Broadband Satellite Systems using Fade Mitigation Techniques at Ka band Anbazhagan Aroumont; José Radzik; Laurent Castanet; Michel Bousquet October 3, 11:30 - 12:45, Room B PhD Session 5: Coding and Modulation CHAIR: Sooyoung Kim (Chonbuk National University, Korea) Low Back-off 16-APSK Transmission Using Magnitude Modulation and Symbol Quantization Marco Gomes; Vitor Silva; Francisco Cercas; Martin Tomlinson Experimental video broadcasting in DVB-RCS/S2 with land mobile satellite channel: a reliability issue Alberto Gotta; Paolo Barsocchi Rate-Compatible Irregular Repeat-Accumulate Codes for DVB-SH Applications David Benmayor; Stylianos Papaharalabos; Mathiopoulos Panayiotis; Georgia Tsiropoula; Philip Constantinou October 3, 11:30 - 12:45, Room C PhD Session 6: Satellite Orbit and Antenna Technology CHAIR: Isabelle Buret (Thales Alenia Space) On Mean Visibility Time of Non-repeating Satellite Orbits Zoltán Katona; Anton Donner Arbitrary Footprint Synthesis for Planar Array With Finite Bit Control Byung Wook Jung; Joohwan Chun A Compact Microstrip Antenna with Tapered Peripheral Slits for CubeSat RF Payloads at 436 MHz: Miniaturization techniques, design, and numerical results Constantine Kakoyiannis; Philip Constantinou

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October 3, 14:00 - 15:45, Room A PhD Session 7: Fade Mitigation Techniques CHAIR: Laurent Castanet (ONERA, France) On Transmission Modes Subset Selection in DVB-S2/RCS Satellite Systems Miha Smolnikar; Anbazhagan Aroumont; Mihael Mohorcic; Tomaz Javornik; Laurent Castanet Analysis of Performances of a Ka Band Reconfigurable Satellite Antenna Front-End in a Broadcasting Application over the European Territory Mauro Buti; Aldo Paraboni; Piero Gabellini Convergence Analysis of Genetic Algorithm Applied for Dynamic Optimization of Terminal to Base Station Assignment in Satellite Fed BFWA Systems Balázs Héder; János Bitó Impact of Aircraft Boundary Layer on Laser Beam Propagation Fotios Stathopoulos; Philip Constantinou October 3, 14:00 - 15:45, Room B Regular Session 4: Modulation and Coding CHAIR: Mathiopoulos Panayiotis (Institute for Space Applications & Remote Sensing, Greece) Hybrid Chip-Rate Equalization of Downlink CDMA in SFN channel Hyunseok Yu; Hyun Seok Oh; Sungjin Park; Kyung-ho Kim A Timing Synchronization Design In OFDM Systems Hyungu Hwang; Hyoungjun Park Design of Long Time Interleaver for future S-DMB Services Sooyoung Kim; Jongsu Lee; Sungmoon Yeo; Jonghoon Lee; Sangseob Song; Hee Wook Kim; Do-Seob Ahn Low-Rate Coding Using Incremental Redundancy for GLDPC Codes Mathieu Cunche; Valentin Savin; Vincent Roca; Ghassan Kraidy; Jérôme Lacan; Alexandre Soro Low Bit Rate Satellite Link For Emergency Communications Ponia Pech; Michel Bousquet; Puming Huang October 3, 14:00 - 15:45, Room C PhD Session 8: Satellite/Terrestrial Hybrid Systems CHAIR: Patricia Inigo (EADS Astrium, France) A Novel Approach for Multicast Video Streaming in Hybrid Networks Paolo Barsocchi; Gabriele Oligeri Throughput Efficient Solution for Hybrid Wireless Network Farukh Nadeem; Erich Leitgeb; Muhammad Saleem Awan; Muhammad Saeed Khan; Gorazd Kandus Call Setup Performance Improvements over Mobile Satellite Systems Using IP Multimedia System Serdar Sahin; Enrique Campos-Nanez; K. Narayanaswamy On the Use of WiMAX as the Terrestrial Segment for DVB-SH Networks Gürkan Gür; Suzan Bayhan; Fatih Alagöz; Abbas Jamalipour

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IWSSC 2008 Conference Location NAME Institut Supérieur de l'Aéronautique et de l'Espace (ISAE) - Campus SUPAERO - Toulouse, France. ADDRESS ISAE Supaero - 10 av. Edouard Belin - BP 54032 - 31055 TOULOUSE Cedex 4

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IWSSC 2008 Internet Access Details Wi-Fi access is available in the main conference rooms using a dedicated IWSSC account. Moreover, an Internet cafe with a few PCs and several RJ45 connections is available in the coffee break room (E97). IWSSC 2008 Instructions for Speakers • Speakers are expected to meet Session Chairs in the room of their Session 15 minutes before the

start of the session. • Speakers are requested to meet the Session Chair with a short bio. • A PC will be available for presentations in each room (with presentation to be copied on the PC

before the start of the session, having the presentation on a USB memory or a CD ROM), but anyway, speakers should bring their laptop with their presentation (for backup reasons).

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IWSSC 2008 Travel Directions FROM TOULOUSE - BLAGNAC AIRPORTTake the airport shuttle to Toulouse city centre. Stop near the SNCF train station. BY SUBWAY/METRO FROM THE SNCF TRAIN STATION When you are at the train station, follow a subway corridor which will lead you to the subway/metro station « MARENGO ». Take the subway line A and get off at the « JEAN-JAURES » station, then take the line B and get off at the "FACULTE DE PHARMACIE" station. Then, take the bus number 68 in the direction of Lespinet / Struxiano terminus (SEMVAT-Tisséo) and get off at the « SUPAERO ENSAE » bus stop (opened every day except on Sundays). FROM TOULOUSE CENTRE BY BUS Take bus number 27 in the direction of Lespinet/Struxiano to its terminus.Then take the bus number 68 going to Ramonville and get off at the « SUPAERO ENSAE » bus stop (opened every day except on Sundays). BY CAR FROM THE RING ROAD Take the outer ring road (in the direction of Montpellier), and follow the « Toulouse centre / Foix / Tarbes » direction (green roadsign). Drive to the exit 20 and follow « Complexe scientifique de Rangueil ». BY TAXI Ask for ISAE - SUPAERO in the « Complexe scientifique de Rangueil » (in front of CREPS)

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IWSSC 2008 Welcome Reception October 1, 18:30, Salle des Illustres, Capitole Pierre Cohen, Mayor of Toulouse and member of the Assemblée Nationale (French Parliament), is inviting all IWSSC participants for a Welcome Reception on Wednesday 1st October at 18:30. The reception will be held in the outstanding “Salle des Illustres” at the “Capitole”, the Toulouse City Hall.

The “Capitole” building (the today’s place of the Town Hall and the Théâtre National du Capitole) is remarkable for its façade with its eight pink marble columns (symbol of the eight first “Capitouls”, the magistrates who were administrating the eight districts of the city on 17th Century), its Henri IV courtyard (which saw the assassination of the Duke de Montmorency after his rebellion against Cardinal Richelieu), and several rooms decorated by wonderful painting from 19th Century local artists (e.g., Paul Gervais, Henri Martin, Jean-Paul Laurens, and Paul Pujol) and sculptures, among them a bust of Pierre de Fermat, a native of Toulouse. The magnificent “Salle des Illustres”, inspired by the “Galleria Farnese” in Rome, where the gilt mouldings vie with the painted cartouches, was designed by the architect and painter Paul Pujol, and glorifies the fame of Toulouse at the dawn of the 20th century.

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IWSSC 2008 Banquet October 2, 19:30, Cité de l’Espace The Chairs and Organizers are inviting IWSSC 2008 attendees to enjoy the typical food of Midi-Pyrénnées region food and at the same time to learn more about space in the unique environment of the Toulouse Cité de l’Espace.

The Cité de l’Espace offers a unique space experience with an impressive array of exhibits (www.cite-espace.com). Combining fun and education in one theme park, the Cité de l'Espace was created to answer the questions everyone asks about space exploration and technology: “what's it for? how does it work?” and “when are we going to there?”. If weather permits, a welcome cocktail will be organized in the Park, while walking along the paths leading to the MIR station and Ariane 5 launch rocket, outdoor exhibits familiarize you with the reference points and distances encountered in space. Dinner will be served in the permanent Exhibition Pavilion, where a wide spectrum of games, experiments and simulations gives visitors an understanding of space science's impact on their lives and how it works. At each stage of the visit, key figures of space science describe their discoveries.

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