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The first phase of SatNEx (SatNEx-I, IST 507052)
was concluded in March 2006 with a set of public deliverables. The following
table gives an overview of these deliverables with name/title, related
work package, and leading partner. Although dissemination level of our
reports is "public" you will find only the executive summaries
on this page and not the full text for download. If you are interested
in our work and deliverables then please do not hesitate to contact
us. Thanks a lot for your understanding!
Note: The executive summaries sometimes refer to deliverables named "DXa" (e.g.,
D4a). These are interim reports which were delivered after the first project
year of SatNEx-I and finalised to the deliverables listed below.
In SatNEx-II (IST 027393) the joint programme of activities (JPA) was slightly
revised and adapted to the experiences from the first phase. The first
set of deliverables will be available in spring 2007. |
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Deliverable |
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Leading
Partner |
Pages |
| 2100 |
D2 |
Research Strategy and Visions JER Report |
UniS |
32 |
| 2200 |
D3 |
System Studies JER Report |
GET/JSI |
101 |
| 2300 |
D4 |
Networking JER Report |
BRU |
237 |
| 2400 |
D5 |
Access JER Report
- Appendix 1: JA-2410 Propagation
- Appendix 2: JA-2420 Flexwave
- Appendix 3: JA-2430 QoS and RRM
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ONERA/TeSA |
34
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- 20
- 107
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| 2500 |
D6 |
Research Trials JER Report |
CNES/CNIT |
37 |
| 1000 |
D7 |
Integrating Activities Report |
DLR |
63 |
| 2000 |
D8 |
Jointly Executed Research Report |
UoB |
39 |
| 3000 |
D9 |
Spreading of Excellence Report |
BRU |
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Graphical Overview SatNEx-I
Joint Programme of Activities (2004/01 - 2006/03).
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Executive Summary / Objectives |
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 D2 |
This "Research strategy and Vision
Report" attempts to define the future direction for satellite communication
system and to identify the key technologies, which are directly related
to future satellite systems.
Initially possible satellite services are identified based on the data
available from the currently operational satellite system and terrestrial
telecommunication systems. Possible market sectors for the future satellite
systems are highlighted and the influence of the technological change over
the years on the satellite system are investigated. Current technological
trends in terrestrial telecommunication sectors are described and the understanding
is that seamless integration and high data rate are the two key elements
to achieve the ITU-R vision of "optimally connected anywhere anytime".
Therefore it appears that exploring different options for higher data rate
radio interfaces and integrating them under one unified core network are
two major tasks of the people working in the telecommunication arena.
We present current trends in the satellite industry and derive the required
technology for the future satellite systems (mobile and broadband). The
implied research issues (Satellite constellation, payload technology, radio-interface,
inter-working, networking technology, user equipment technology) are investigated
and presented as outcomes of the vision. |
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In the first year of SatNEx where gaps
in the research activities were identified, it appeared that system studies
clear and immediate commercial exploitation potential were well documented
in those areas where either satellite based commercial services are available
or other research projects in this direction were about to be under study
or to be finished (e.g., IST WirelessCabin or FIFTH). Broadband, mobile
and broadcast system studies were considered in conjunction with WP 2100
as part of the vision; specific enabling technologies and concepts are
considered in WP 2300 and 2400.
Therefore, it has been decided to direct the available European manpower
in satellite research to approach ways of designing at system level emerging
communications systems that did not benefit from the existing operational
experience gathered over half a century for now well established satellite
systems. The emerging communications systems that were identified as such
were the High Altitude Platform Stations (HAPs).
In recent years High Altitude Platforms (HAPs) are gaining increasing interest
in research community. Due to their characteristics, HAP based systems
can serve as a supplement to terrestrial and satellite wireless communication
systems. In particular, they retain many of the satellite features and
constraints and provide alternative means of communications that could
complement satellite systems. Physically positioned in the lower stratosphere
at altitudes around 20 km HAPs can be used both in the access segment,
efficiently solving the "last mile" problem, and for the provision
of a backhaul link for wired or wireless fixed or mobile local area networks.
However, unlike satellite systems, HAPS propagation delay is relatively
small (less than 1 ms). With this characteristic, its air interfaces design
for instance will be essentially different to the one in satellite systems.
Therefore, HAPS research activities are dealt separately within SatNEx.
The main objectives of this JA concerned design and selection of suitable
HAPS system architectures for mobile and broadband applications, and to
define the interface / inter-working functions between HAPS and satellite
and terrestrial networks. However, this JA appears to be the only JA within
SatNEx devoted to High Altitude Platforms, thus we studied also other issues
related to HAP although they do not perfectly fit in the System studies.
In addition, we also have a close collaboration with JA-2420 and JA-2350
in the area of Reliable multicast transmission via HAP and with JA-2430
in the area cross-layer protocol optimization. |
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This deliverable updates the WP2300 "Networking" activities
that were previously addressed in Deliverable D4a. The Work Package (WP)
is further broken down into three main join activities (JAs):
- JA-2300 NetPerf: Network Performance and Protocols.
This JA consists of three different working groups focusing on the
three main topics respectively:
- a) Hybrid networks
- b) IP services over satellite and
- c) Transport Layer protocol.
- JA-2331 EGGS: Satellite Networking in Challenging Environments.
This JA mainly addresses the following areas: a) Investigation of Inter-planetary
Scenario; b) Transport Layer Coding in Challenged Networks and c)
Routing and communications in MANET/ Sensor Networks.
- JA-2350 NMS: Network Management and Security.
This JA consists of the Network Management and Security working groups.
Since the final version of Deliverable D4a, consortium partners involved
in WP 2300 have been actively participating in respective JAs to research,
develop, collaborate and perform dissemination activities, such as test-bed
collaboration, journal and conference publications, standardisation and
training activities. Two simulation workshops have been organised.
Partners have also been participating in standardisation activities, i.e.
ETSI and IETF. Two Internet drafts were presented at the July 2005 IETF
meeting in Paris, addressing multicast and security issues. Collaboration
among partners to publish journal papers were also produced, as yet, a
total of nine journal papers are either submitted, accepted or on-going
and two journals papers have been published in IEEE Communications and
Wireless Communications Magazine respectively.
A total of 34 conference papers have also been published or accepted since
the final version of Deliverable D4a, comprising: 29 that were accredited
to JA-2300 and four each were accredited to JA-2331 and JA-2350 respectively.
Partners have also participated in workshops, seminars and forums, by giving
presentations in their various expertise fields. The total number of presentations
given for WP 2300 is 12, with JA-2300 and JA-2350 both having 11 presentations
accredited to the joint activities workgroup respectively. Part of the
objectives of SatNEx is also to encourage personnel exchanges among the
consortium partners and to date, a total of eight personnel exchanges have
been performed since the last reporting of WP 2300 in Deliverable
D4a.
In this deliverable, Deliverable D4,
aims to describe collaborative technical tasks that were undertaken by
the different joint activities and also to update the contributions provided
in Deliverable D4a. Section 1 gives an overview of WP 2300 objectives
and also provides a summary of achievements made in the dissemination and
integration activities of the different JAs. Following this, the contributions
and detailed analysis provided by the different working groups within JA-2300
are presented in Sections 2, 3 and 4 respectively. In addition, contributions
prepared for JA-2350 - Network Management and Security (NMS), addressing
satellite security and security management can be found in Section 5. The
work that had been performed by the new JA-2331 - Satellite Networking
in Challenging Environments (EGGS) are described in Section 6, mainly focusing
on the reference scenarios selected and the proposed research activities
undertaken by this joint activity. |
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This document consists in a Technical
Report of the IST Network of Excellence SatNEx (IST NoE n° 507052),
intended as being the D5 deliverable.
The Deliverable - "D5, Access
Jointly Executed Research" - describes the overall results achieved
within the Work Package 2400 "Access", which aims at developing
know-how and expertise in all facets involved in the optimised design of
the link between terminals and multibeam Ka/Q band satellites, so as to
maximise capacity of the system, minimise cost of terminal, guaranty QoS
requirements, while preserving flexibility to cope with evolution of services
and users expectations.
Although WP 2400 falls under the 2000 stream dedicated to Jointly
Executed Research (JER), all activities have components in the Integration,
Jointly Executed Research, and Spreading of Excellence domains to fulfil
the requirements of Network of Excellence. Therefore this document does
not focus only on Jointly Excecuted Research, but reports the main results
achieved in each of three foundation domains of the Network, among which:
- the various integration activitie among which personnel exchanges
- a wide range of delta-research activities
- outcomes of delta-research activities as a large collection of published
papers
- edited book and e-books presenting state-of-the-art and new research
results
- organisation of satellite communications conferences and workshops
- specific actions to the benefit of PhD students who will be the actors
of tomorrow european integrated research
Deliverable D5 consists of a
core document (this report), together with three Appendices (D5 -
App 1-3) which describes the contents of books gathering state-of-the art
and reseach results of each of the three Joint Activities under WP 2400.
Additional information such as knowledge portofolio, list of people involved
in the activities, etc, is available in the JA Technical reports:
- Technical Report JA-2410-5 - "JA-2410 Propagation: Contribution
to D5"
- Technical Report JA-2420-5 - "JA-2420 Flexwave: Contribution
to D5"
- Technical Report JA-2430-2 - "JA-2430 QoS and RRM: Contribution
to D5"
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Objectives of WP 2500 are to incite,
develop and organize collaborative cross trials between SatNEx partners,
in order to improve the scientific knowledge in the field of Satcom and
to test prototype solutions to be adopted by future satellite technologies.
The activities carried out in this workpackage have been harmonised exploiting
the inputs deriving from the WPs 2300 and 2400 addressed to Networking
and Access themes, respectively. The trial campaign has been driven accordingly
to the indications and the directions stated in WP 1200, focussed to "Integrated
Research Tools and Test-beds". A strong interdependence between research
trials and the use of the satellite platform, focused in WP 1300,
is provided too.
Summarising, the whole Research Trials JER Final Report is organised as
follows:
- Section 1: Introduction
- Section 2: Objectives of WP 2500
- Section 3: The SatNEx Community Effort
- Section 4: Ongoing and Future Research Activities
- Section 5: Towards SatNEx II
- Section 6: Conclusions
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One of the major goals of SatNEx is
to achieve durable integration of the partners. For this purpose five joint
activities (JAs) have been set up:
- JA-1000: Removing Barriers to Integration
- JA-1100: Collective Research Portfolio
- JA-1200: Integrated Research Tools and Testbeds
- JA-1300: Networking Means for Integration and Dissemination
- JA-1400: Personnel Exchange Missions
These Joint Activities belong to work package WP 1000: Integrating
Activities. The aims of this report are to highlight the achievements associated
with each of the above Joint Activities. The present deliverable D7 (Integrating
Activities Report) is an updated version of deliverable D7a (Integrating
Activities Interim Report), delivered to the CEC on Dec. 15, 2004. Compared
to D7a, the present deliverable D7 contains
new information concerning the year 2005. This approach is in line with
the deliverables list defined in SatNEx Annex I, dated Dec. 10, 2003.
For the extension of SatNEx (SatNEx-II), which is currently under negotiation,
this approach will be revised. In future there will be no dedicated JAs
within WP 1x00; integration results of JAs from the scientific WP 2000
area (for a definition of JAs please refer to the subsequent chapter) will
feed into sub-workpackages of WP 1000 because integrating activities
are considered to be a mandatory general framework of SatNEx for all partners
and not single activities which may be launched and ended during project
runtime.
Nevertheless in the following the terms WP 1x00 and JA-1x00 are sometimes
used synonymously; these are only two denotations for integration activities. |
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The SatNEx Network of Excellence Joint
Programme of Activities (JPA) foresees three main lines of action:
- Integration (WP 1000)
- Jointly Executed Research (WP 2000)
- Spreading of Excellence (WP 3000)
This deliverable is devoted a summary description of the Jointly Executed
Research (JER) activities that have been set-up and enforced by the SatNEx
network in the course of its lifetime. Indeed, the integration of several
European research teams that have repeatedly proven their expertise and
capacities in satellite communications has translated into a formidable
potential for achieving cutting-edge scientific results and contributing
to building and structuring the European Research Area (ERA).
It should be noted that this document collects in a summary form the main
results from the deliverables pertaining to the WP 2000 vertical lines,
i.e.:
- WP 2100, Research Strategy and Vision, Deliverable D2;
- WP 2200, System Studies, Deliverable D3;
- WP 2300, Networking, Deliverable D4;
- WP 2400, Access, Deliverable D5;
- WP 2500, Research Trials, Deliverable D6.
The reader is referred to those deliverables for details. The set of Joint
Activities that are addressed in this Deliverable is as follows:
- JA-2100 Research Strategy and Visions
- JA-2230 HAP System Architecture for Fixed and Mobile Comms (HAFAMS)
- JA-2300 Network Performance and Protocols (NetPerf)
- JA-2331 Satellite Networking in Challenging Environments (EGGS)
- JA-2350 Network Security & Network Management
- JA-2410 Channel Modelling & Propagation Impairments
- JA-2420 Flexible Waveforms (Flexwave)
- JA-2430 QoS and Radio Resource Management with Cross-Layer Approach
(QoS&RRM)
As general comments and conclusions from the impressive amount of work
that has been performed within the two years of SatNEx lifetime, we can
draw the following:
- All of the major objectives and goals that were initially set for
the SatNEx JER have been addressed and achieved.
- In the course of addressing the various research areas in the JER,
numerous new ideas and concepts have been identified, which have become
part of a new and common joint knowledge portfolio for the SatNEx partners.
- This joint portfolio has become the vehicle for durable integration,
which is also sustained by strong personal relationships that are now
widespread amongst the partners.
- The instrument of the "Joint Activity", which has been
originally devised within the SatNEx NoE, has proved itself to be very
effective, flexible, and helpful in getting the wanted results. This
experience shall be repeated in the future.
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One of the major goals of SatNEx was
to Spread Excellence. This remit covered a broad range of activities, which
addressed several target audiences. As a consequence, the approach adopted
in addressing the requirements of this workpackage is broad in its scope
and varied in its application. The importance of this activity is reflected
in the fact that all partners were expected to contribute to the activity
over the project's lifetime.
In order to organise the activities associated with this workpackage, the
work was broken down into three major streams, viz:
- WP 3100: Training;
- WP 3200: Dissemination and Knowledge Transfer;
- WP 3300: Standardisation and Regulation.
The aims of this deliverable are to report on the achievements associated
with each of the above over the 24-month lifetime of the project and to
indicate areas that are likely to be developed in the future.
Over the two-year reporting period, SatNEX produced some notable achievements,
and in so doing fulfilled its remit to "Spread Excellence", through
activities such as:
- organising and hosting of the Inaugural International Satellite Communications
Summer School in Pisa, which spanned four days and attracted 55 delegates;
- publishing over 120 conference, workshop and journal papers.
- supporting participation of research students to key international
conference events in places such as Dresden, Siena and Rome;
- establishing a web-site that acts as a window to the global research
community, as well as providing a valuable resource for the workings
of SatNEx;
- participating in standardisation activities of a European and global
dimension.
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EUROPEAN SATELLITE COMMUNICATIONS
NETWORK OF EXCELLENCE (SatNEx)
Coordination: DLR Oberpfaffenhofen []
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