LTE backhauling over MEO-satellites

Author

Breiling, Marco ; Zia, W. ; Sanchez de la Fuente, Yago ; Mignone, Vittoria ; Milanesio, Daniele ; Fan, Y. ; Guta, Madalin

Author_Institution

Fraunhofer Inst. for Integrated Circuits (IIS), Erlangen, Germany

fYear

2014

fDate

8-10 Sept. 2014

Firstpage

174

Lastpage

181

Abstract

This paper considers satellite backhauling of eNodeBs aboard vehicles like trains, planes, (cruise) ships and coaches. Current LTE releases do not envisage backhauling of such moving eNodeBs. A Medium Earth Orbit (MEO) satellite configuration like the O3b system and link budgets for the four mentioned vehicles are assumed for the considered scenario. The most promising potential network architecture is analysed by considering several use cases and thus identifying open issues. These issues are examined by analysis and simulation, where the employed real-time simulator implements both the LTE core network, base stations and UEs as well as video codecs on the application layer and a two-way DVB-S2/ACM satellite link emulator.

Keywords

Long Term Evolution; digital video broadcasting; direct broadcasting by satellite; video codecs; LTE backhauling; LTE core network; LTE release; MEO-satellite configuration; O3b system; UE; application layer; base stations; coaches; cruise ships; eNodeBs; link budgets; medium-Earth orbit satellite configuration; planes; real-time simulator; satellite backhauling; trains; two-way DVB-S2-ACM satellite link emulator; video codecs; Handover; Mobile communication; Satellite broadcasting; Satellites; Streaming media; Vehicles; LTE; mobile cells; satellite backhauling;

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.2014.6934541

Filename

6934541