Performance assessment of the Smart mAritime saTellite terminal for mUltimedia seRvices and conteNts (SATURN) system

Author

Baroni, Andrea ; Michel, A. ; Pannozzo, Massimo ; Zamberlan, Daniel ; Andrenacci, Marco ; Silvestri, F.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Inf. Eng., Univ. of Pisa, Pisa, Italy

fYear

2014

fDate

8-10 Sept. 2014

Firstpage

136

Lastpage

143

Abstract

In this paper, the main measured performance results of the SATURN (Smart mAritime saTellite terminal for mUltimedia seRvices and conteNts) system are summarized. The SATURN project aimed to design and develop a maritime user terminal for small leisure boats (up to 20m of length). Such a terminal allows navigators for receiving contents through a DVB-SH channel and transmitting small amount of data via an ETSI S-MIM return channel (based on the Enhanced Spread Spectrum protocol) using the S-Band (2 GHz). The system performance has been measured in a real environment, emulating the sea-condition by means of an ad-hoc designed Motion Simulator.

Keywords

marine communication; multimedia communication; protocols; satellite communication; DVB-SH channel; ETSI S-MIM return channel; SATURN project; SATURN system; ad-hoc designed motion simulator; enhanced spread spectrum protocol; maritime user terminal; performance assessment; smart maritime satellite terminal for multimedia services and contents; Antenna measurements; Antenna radiation patterns; Digital video broadcasting; Satellite broadcasting; Satellites; Saturn; Sea measurements; DVB-SH; E-SSA; MPE-IFEC; Maritime Terminal; Multimedia Services; S-Band; S-MIM; SATURN; Satellite; Service Availability;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Advanced Satellite Multimedia Systems Conference and the 13th Signal Processing for Space Communications Workshop (ASMS/SPSC), 2014 7th

Conference_Location

Livorno

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ASMS-SPSC.2014.6934535

Filename

6934535