Personal Satellite Services : International Conference, PSATS 2009, Rome, Italy, March 18-19, 2009, Revised Selected Papers

This book constitutes the proceedings of the International Conference on Personal Satellite Services (PSATS 2009) in Rome, Italy in March 2009. The 17 papers papers demonstrate recent advances in Internet applications over satellites, satellites technologies, and future satellite location-based systems. Front Matter....Pages - Analysing the Orbital Movement and Trajectory of LEO (Low Earth Orbit) Satellite Relative to Earth Rotation....Pages 1-11 A Cross-Layer PEP for DVB-RCS Networks....Pages 12-19 Triple Play over Satellite, Ka-Band Making the Difference....Pages 20-28 Time Scheduling Based on Tradeoff between Detection Performance and QoS Requirement....Pages 29-36 Study of the Quantum Channel between Earth and Space for Satellite Quantum Communications....Pages 37-40 Spectral Analysis of Experimental Ka-Band Propagation Measurements over the Australian LEO Microsatellite ‘FedSat’....Pages 41-48 Satellite Broadband Revolution: How Latest Ka-Band Systems Will Change the Rules of the Industry. An Interpretation of the Technological Trajectory....Pages 49-60 Performance Enhanced Proxy Solutions for Satellite Networks: State of the Art, Protocol Stack and Possible Interfaces....Pages 61-67 PEPsal Performance Analysis on Disruptive Radio Channels....Pages 68-76 PEP Deployment and Bandwidth Management Issues....Pages 77-84 High Altitude Platforms: Radio Resource Management Policy for MBMS Applications....Pages 85-93 Frequency Tracking Performance Using a Hyperbolic Digital-Phase Locked Loop for Ka-Band Communication in Rain Fading Channels....Pages 94-102 Design and Implementation of P2P Streaming Systems for Webcast....Pages 103-110 Comparisons on Performances in MIMO Systems under Different Propagation Environments....Pages 111-121 Combined Congestion Control and Link Selection Strategies for Delay Tolerant Interplanetary Networks....Pages 122-131 Broadband Satellite Multimedia (BSM) Security Architecture and Interworking with Performance Enhancing Proxies....Pages 132-142 A Satellite-Based Infrastructure Providing Broadband IP Services on Board High Speed Trains....Pages 143-152 Back Matter....Pages -