Zhili Sun - Satellite Networking: Principles and Protocols

This edition first published 2014

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Sun, Zhili.

Satellite networking : principles and protocols / Zhili Sun. -- Second edition.

pages cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-1-118-35160-4 (hardback)

1. Artificial satellites in telecommunication. 2. Computer network protocols. 3. Internetworking (Telecommunication) I. Title.

TK5104.S78 2014

621.3825028546--dc23

2013046750

ISBN: 9781118351604 (HB)

This book is dedicated to the memory of my grandparents and my father

To my mother

To my wife

1. Typical applications and services of satellite networking
2. Functional relationships of user terminal, terrestrial network and satellite network
3. Typical topologies of networks: star, hierarchy and mesh
4. Circuit switching networks
5. Concept of multiplexing in the frequency domain
6. Analogue transmission multiplexing hierarchy
7. Concept of multiplexing in the time domain
8. Digital transmission hierarchies
9. Space switching concept
10. Time switching concept
11. Virtual channel switching concept
12. Datagram routing concept
13. Packet error probabilities for given bit error probabilities and packet sizes
14. OSI/ISO seven-layer reference model
15. B-ISDN ATM reference model
16. The Internet reference model
17. Illustration of the space segment and ground segment
18. Satellite orbits
19. Attenuations of different frequency bands due to rain (A), fog (B) and gas (C)
20. Capacity boundary of communication channel
21. Shannon bandwidth efficiency for large
22. Using routers to internetwork with heterogeneous terrestrial networks
23. Mapping of user-centric QoS requirements into network performance
24. Model for user-centric QoS categories
25. The four viewpoints of QoS
26. User- and network-centric views of QoS and NP concepts
27. Functional blocks of the transmission system
28. Randomizer/de-randomizer schematic diagram
29. Framing structure
30. Conceptual diagram of the convolutional interleaver and de-interleaver
31. QPSK constellation
32. Functional block diagram of the DVB-S2 system
33. Functional block diagram of the DVB-SH transmitter (Either TDM or OFDM configurations)
34. Slot pilot insertion
35. Physical layer (PL) scrambling
36. Mapping of the SH frame on OFDM
37. Satellite in the global information infrastructure
38. Vector from earth to satellite
39. Orbit with major axis of orbit (AB) and semi-major axis of orbit (AO)
40. Inclination of orbit i
41. Equatorial, incline and polar orbits
42. Right ascension of the node and argument of perigee
43. Footprints of geosynchronous satellites
44. Typical high elliptical orbit
45. Footprint of a LEO satellite
46. Relationship between altitude and coverage
47. Antenna radiation pattern
48. Relation between elevation angle and altitude
49. Distance between earth station and satellite
50. Carrier waves, modulating signals and modulated signals
51. Signal-space diagram for coherent BPSK
52. Signal-space diagram for coherent QPSK
53. Noise performance of modulation schemes
54. Block diagram of physical layer functions of satellite networks
55. Forward error correction (FEC) coding
56. Block diagram of turbo encoder
57. Block diagram of turbo decoder
58. Comparison of FEC codes
59. Multiple access techniques: FDMA, TDMA and CDMA
60. Comparison between the concepts of multiplexing and multiple access
61. A typical example of satellite TDMA scheme
62. Single hop topology with satellite at the centre
63. Multiple hops topology with hub at the centre
64. Satellite networks with inter-satellite links
65. Concepts of inter-satellite beam and intra-satellite beam handovers
66. Satellite constellations of earth fixed coverage and satellite fixed coverage
67. Satellite network availability model
68. ATM cell
69. Functions of the ATM protocol stack
70. Trade-off between delay and cell payload efficiency
71. Delay due to packetisation and queuing
72. The ATM cell header format at the UNI and NNI
73. Connection/routing table in ATM switch
74. Concept of VP and VC in the physical layer
75. Example of VP switching
76. Example of VC and VP switching
77. Service classes and their attributes
78. AAL 1 packet format for Class A
79. Illustration of the adaptive clock method
80. AAL 2 packet format for Class B
81. AAL 3/4 packet format for Classes C and D
82. AAL 5 format for Internet protocol
83. The ITU-T target solution for ATM cell transmission
84. SDH STM-1 frame
85. B-ISDN reference configuration
86. ATM interfaces network node interconnections
87. ATM address format
88. Generic cell rate (GCRA) algorithm
89. Leaky bucket algorithm (LBA)
90. An illustration of smooth traffic coming to the leaky bucket GCRA(1.5, 0.5)
91. Illustration of burst traffic coming to the leaky bucket GCRA(4.5, 7)
92. Virtual scheduling algorithm (VSA)
93. Internet packets over routers and sub-networks
94. IP packet header format
95. IP address formats
96. Special IP addresses
97. The TCP segment header