IP-based broadband satellite access systems for interactive multimedia services

Author

Iuoras, Nicolae ; Le-Ngoc, Tho ; Ashour, Mohamed ; Elshabrawy, Tallal

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., McGill Univ., Montreal, Que., Canada

Volume

2

fYear

2003

fDate

4-7 May 2003

Firstpage

695

Abstract

This paper presents an IP-based broadband satellite access (BSA) network architecture for interactive multimedia services with an emphasis on the return link. The functions and architectures of key BSA network components to provide IP Quality of Service support using the differentiated services (diffserv) architecture are presented. Simulation results indicate that the proposed BSA network architecture allows low packet queuing delays to be achieved for all traffic classes when the network is lightly loaded; with high loading, low delays are maintained for the higher-priority traffic classes.

Keywords

IP networks; Internet; broadband networks; digital video broadcasting; interactive video; multimedia communication; packet switching; quality of service; queueing theory; satellite communication; telecommunication links; telecommunication traffic; DVB-return channel satellite; IP network; IP quality of service; broadband satellite access system architecture; differentiated service architecture; higher-priority traffic class; interactive multimedia service; low packet queuing delay; network component; network loading; return link; Communication switching; Digital video broadcasting; Downlink; Frequency; Multimedia databases; Multimedia systems; Payloads; Quality of service; Satellite broadcasting; Telecommunication traffic;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Electrical and Computer Engineering, 2003. IEEE CCECE 2003. Canadian Conference on

ISSN

0840-7789

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7781-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CCECE.2003.1225990

Filename

1225990