Multi-access protocols for a multiservice VSAT network

Author

Hadjitheodosiou, M.H. ; Coakley, F.P. ; Evans, B.G.

Author_Institution

Centre for Satellite Eng. Res., Surrey Univ., Guildford, UK

fYear

1994

fDate

1-5 May 1994

Firstpage

864

Abstract

We investigate a number of access schemes that, when applied to a VSAT satellite network, could accommodate traffic consisting of short, interactive data messages, longer file transfers and voice calls. This will enable a large number of users to share a communications channel. The difficulties associated with the introduction of speech are discussed and ways to deal with these are suggested, so that VSAT systems could provide a wide range of multimedia services to geographically dispersed users

Keywords

VSAT networks; access protocols; multi-access systems; multimedia communication; satellite communication; telecommunication services; telecommunication traffic; communications channel; file transfers; interactive data messages; multimedia services; multiservice VSAT network; satellite network; speech communication; traffic; voice calls; Access protocols; Apertures; Artificial satellites; Communication channels; Investments; Multimedia communication; Satellite broadcasting; Speech; Telecommunication traffic; Time division multiplexing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Communications, 1994. ICC '94, SUPERCOMM/ICC '94, Conference Record, 'Serving Humanity Through Communications.' IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

New Orleans, LA

Print_ISBN

0-7803-1825-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICC.1994.368974

Filename

368974