The utilisation of distributed medical intelligence can contribute significantly to the continuous improvement of patient care and accelerates the qualification process of the medical staff. An efficient way of realisation is the use of satellite networks for telemedical applications, as satellite communication has some distinct advantages over terrestrial communication channels: mesh topology ...

The article is devoted to the estimation of threshold values, regulated by ITU, which determine the necessity of satellite networks coordination in the Ku band. Maximum capacity of geostationary orbit (GEO) for different diameters of earth station antennas, operating in standard DVB-S2 accounting the limitations caused by the parameters of existing satellite networks equipment, is determined. O...

The challenge of future mobile multimedia networks is to provide worldwide tetherless communication services. Low Earth Orbit-Mobile Satellite Systems (LEO-MSSs) will play a significant role by filling the coverage gaps of future generation terrestrial cellular networks. This lecture presents research results on demand-assignment Medium Access Control (MAC) schemes able to share efficiently LEO...

A crucial issue in the next-generation satellite-based communication systems is the satellite on-board reallocation of information which requires digital flexible frequency-band reallocation (FBR) networks. This paper introduces a new class of flexible FBR networks based on variable oversampled complex-modulated filter banks (FBs). The new class can outperform the previously existing ones when ...

This document outlines possible TCP enhancements that may allow TCP to better utilize the available bandwidth provided by networks containing satellite links. The algorithms and mechanisms outlined have not been judged to be mature enough to be recommended by the IETF. The goal of this document is to educate researchers as to the current work and progress being done in TCP research related to s...

The Internet Engineering Task Force is working on extending the traditional TCP/IP model for supporting multimedia and real-time applications on the Internet. Thus, new protocols have been developed such as the Resource Reservation Protocol. With the rapid growth of mobile networks, the IETF is also working on creating and extending the existing protocols to support mobile users. This has led t...

1 0-7803-7651-X/03/$17.00 © 2003 IEEE 2 IEEEAC paper #1197, Updated December 10, 2002 Abstract—Proposed satellite constellation networks, based on Geostationary Earth Orbit (GEO) satellites, Medium Earth Orbit (MEO), and Low Earth Orbit (LEO) systems, will be required to transport IP traffic and to provide quality of service (QoS). This paper proposes a new Diffserv-based scheme of IP bandwidth...