2006 International Workshop on Satellite and Space Communications (IWSSC2006)
14th-15th September 2006, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Leganés, Spain

 

 

 

PROGRAM

Proceedings available in IEEE Xplore

 

IWSSC'06  Program at a Glance

Thursday, September 14

8:30-9:00

Registration

9:00-10:30

Tutorial 1:

Tutorial 2:

IP in Space

Software radio in space segment

(Room: Audiovisuales Biblioteca)

(Room: Sala Reuniones, Biblioteca)

10:30-11:00

Coffee Break

11:00-12:30

 

Tutorial 3

Tutorial 4

QoS Support on DVB-S2/RCS

Adaptive satcom systems at Ka and Q/V bands

(Room: Audiovisuales Biblioteca)

(Room: Sala Reuniones, Biblioteca)

12:30-13:30

Lunch

13:30-14:30

Opening Speach & Key Note speech

Future Satellite and Space Communications

(Room: Audiovisuales Biblioteca)

14:30-15:30

Regular  Session I

PhD Session I.

Advances in modulation and coding

Satellite Networking and Applications I

(Room: Audiovisuales Biblioteca)

(Room: Sala Reuniones, Biblioteca)

15:30-16:00

Coffee Break

16:00-17:00

Regular  Session II

PhD Session II

System issues and resource management

Satellite Networking and Applications II

(Room: Audiovisuales Biblioteca)

(Room: Sala Reuniones, Biblioteca)

17:00-19:00

Pannel Session

"Why bridge the "digital divide" with satellites

if nobody crosses the bridge?"

(Room: Audiovisuales Biblioteca)

19:00-….

Social Event + Dinner

 

 

 

 


IWSSC'06  Program at a Glance

Friday, September 15

 

Plenary Speech

9:00-10:00

Multimedia Applications over Satellite

(Room: Audiovisuales Biblioteca)

Regular  Session III

PhD Session III

PhD Session IV

10:00-11:30

Transport layer performance

Physical Layer I

Channel Modelling I

(Room: Audiovisuales Biblioteca)

(Room: Sala Reuniones, Biblioteca)

(Room: 4.0F16, T.Quevedo)

Coffee Break

11:30-12:00

Special Session

PhD Session V

PhD Session VI

12:00-13:30

Future DVB-S2/DVB-RCS systems 

Physical Layer II

Channel Modelling II

(Room: Audiovisuales Biblioteca)

(Room: Sala Reuniones, Biblioteca)

(Room: 4.0F16, T.Quevedo)

Lunch

13:30-14:30

Regular Session IV

PhD Session VII

PhD Session VIII

14:30-16:00

Satellite IP networks

Physical Layer III

Satellite Networking and Applications III

(Room: Audiovisuales Biblioteca)

(Room: Sala Reuniones, Biblioteca)

(Room: 4.0F16, T.Quevedo)

Coffee Break

16:00-16:30

Regular Session V

PhD Session IX

 

16:30-18:00

Satellite Systems and Services

DVB-S2/RCS Systems

 

(Room: Audiovisuales Biblioteca)

(Room: Sala Reuniones, Biblioteca)

 

Close Session & Best Award paper

18:00-18:30

 

 

Regular Papers

Advances in modulation and coding, Thursday, September 14. 14:30-15:30.

Session Chair:  Dr. Joaquín Mínguez

 

  • Characterization of the Attenuation due to Rain Cell Fields applying Cellular Automata to Weather Radar Images

Adolfo Núñez (University of Vigo, ES); Vicente Pastoriza (University of Vigo, ES); Perfecto Marino (E.T.S. Ingenieros Industriales, ES); Fernando Fontán (University of Vigo, ES); Uwe-Carsten Fiebig (DSR, DE).

 

  • Turbo Decoder Development in Regenerative Communications Satellites

Bruno Lestriez (Alcatel Alenia Space, ES); Eduardo Rodriguez Perez (Alcatel Alenia Space, ES).

 

  • Frequency-Hopping Techniques for Secure Satellite TT&C: Analysis & Trade-Offs

L. Simone, N. Salerno, M. Maffei (Alcatel Alenia Space - Italy, IT).

 

  • Design and Simulation of a Proposed RADON Based OFDM Transceiver

Omar Faraj (Al-Mansour University College, IQ).

 

System issues and resource management, Thursday, September 14. 16:00-17:00

Session Chair:  Dr. Giovani Giambene

 

  • Depolarization Mitigation using Frequency Offset in the Dual-Polarized X-Band for EESS

Sang Gyu Lee (Korea Aerospace Research Institute, KR); Sung Woong Ra, Song Jae Lee (Chungnam National University, Department of Electronics Engineering);

 

  • Jointly optimal Routing and Resource Allocation in hybrid satellite/terrestrial networks

Laura Rosati (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR), DE); Gianluca Reali (University of Perugia, IT).

 

  • Optimal key scheduling for secure satellite broadcasting to mobile users

Roberto Di Pietro (Universita' di Roma La Sapienza, IT), Stefano Iannitti (ASI - Agenzia Spaziale Italiana, IT).

 

Transport layer performance, Friday, September 15. 10:00-11:30

Session Chair: Dr. Sastri Kota

 

  • TCP Hybla Performance in GEO Satellite Networks: Simulations and Testbed

Carlo Caini (University of Bologna, IT); Nico Liberato Candio (University of Siena, IT); Rosario Firrincieli (University of Bologna, IT); Giovanni Giambene (University of Siena, IT);

 

  • Use of Quickstart to Improve the Performance of TFRC-SP Over Satellite Networks

Arjuna Sathiaseelan (University of Aberdeen, UK); Gorry Fairhurst (University of Aberdeen, UK).

 

Satellite IP networks, Friday, September 15. 14:30-16:00

Session Chair: Dr. Francisco Javier Ruiz Piñar

 

  • A Hardware ULE Decapsulator for the Unidirectional Lightweight Encapsulation

Bernhard Collini-Nocker (University of Salzburg, AT); Christian Prähauser (University of Salzburg, AT); Josef Schmidbauer (University of Salzburg, AT).

 

  • Internet by satellite: a flexible processor with Radio Burst Switching.

Celine Haardt (Alcatelaleniaspace, FR); Nicolas Courville (German Aerospace Center (DLR), DE).

 

  • Adaptive Routing Protocol for QoS in Two-Layered Satellite IP Networks

Suzan Bayhan (Bogazici University, TR); Gurkan Gur (Bogazici University, TR); Fatih Alagoz (Bogazici University, TR).

 

Satellite Systems and Services, Friday, September 15. 16:30-18:00

Session Chair: Dr. María Ángeles Vazquez Castro

 

  • DVB-S2 for Mobile DVB-S2 in Railway Environments: An Exploratory Study for Tunnel Coverage

Matteo Iubatti (University of Bologna, IT); Giovanni Emanuele Corazza (University of Bologna, IT); Alessandro Vanelli-Coralli (University of Bologna, IT); Marco Villanti (University of Bologna, IT).

 

  • Evaluation of DVB-RCS Resource Assignment Mechanisms for Internet Traffic Transport

Gustavo Xavier Chafla Altamirano (Catholic University of Ecuador PUCE, EC); Francisco Javier Ruiz (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid UPM, ES); Carlos Miguel Nieto (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, ES); Ángel Fernández del Campo (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, ES).

 

 

Special Session Papers

 

 

Future DVB-S2/DVB-RCS systems, Friday, September 15. 12:00-13:30.

Session Chair:  Dr. Stefano Cioni

 

Organized by  Dr. Giovanni E. Corazza, Dr. Alessandro Vanelli-Coralli and Dr. Stefano Cioni University of Bologna

 

 

 

  • Visions for Future DVB-RCS Systems

Harald Skinnemoen (Ansur Technologies, NO); Eirik Ersland (Telenor, NO).

 

  • DVB-S2/RCS Suitability for the Provision of Air Traffic Management Services

Cristina Parraga Niebla (German Aerospace Center (DLR), DE); Núria Riera Díaz (German Aerospace Center (DLR), DE); Sandro Scalise (DLR (German Aerospace Center), DE), Christian Kissling (DLR (German Aerospace Center), DE) .

 

  • Introduction of mobility aspects for DVB-S2/RCS broadband systems

Catherine Morlet, Alberto Ginesi (ESA/ESTEC, NL).

 

  • Broadband systems based on DVB-S2 and mobile DVB-RCS, and their future applications to broadband mobiles

Ho-Jin Lee, Pansoo Kim, Taehoon Kim, and Deock-Gil Oh (Global Area Wireless Technology Research Group, ETRI, KR)

 

PhD Papers

 

Physical layer I, Friday, September 15. 10:00-11:30.

Session Chair: Dr. Mª Julia Fernández-Getino García

 

  • Performance of link adaptation techniques for different service classes through land mobile satellite communication channels

Zoltán Katona, Janos Bito (Budapest University of Technology and Economics, HU).

 

  • Symbol Rate Estimation with Inverse Fourier Transforms

Markus Flohberger (Graz University of Technology, AT); Wolfgang Kogler (TU-Graz, AT); Wilfried Gappmair (Graz University of Technology, AT); Otto Koudelka (Graz University of Technology, AT).

 

  • Evaluation of diversity gain and system capacity increase in a multiple HAP system

Tine Celcer (Jozef Stephan Institute, SI); Gorazd Kandus (Jozef Stefan Institute, SI); Tomaz Javornik (Jozef Stefan Institute, SI); Mihael Mohorcic (Jozef Stefan Institute, SI); Sreco Plevel (Jozef Stefan Institute, SI).

 

Physical layer II, Friday, September 15. 12:00-13:30.

Session Chair: Dr. Francisco-Javier González Serrano

 

  • Increasing GMR-1 System Throughput with Turbo Interference Cancellation Techniques

Marika Casadei (University of Bologna, IT); Massimo Neri (University of Bologna, IT); Alessandro Vanelli-Coralli (University of Bologna, IT); Giovanni Emanuele Corazza (University of Bologna, IT).

 

  • Feasibility Study of Adaptive LUT-based Predistorter for OFDM in Non-Linear Satellite Downlink Channel

Sundarampillai Janaaththanan, C.Kasparis, Barry G. Evans (University of Surrey, UK).

 

  • Polarization Diversity Tripole Adaptive Array with Minimum Bit Error Rate approach

Yerram Ravinder (Pune Institute of Computer Technology, IN); Vijay.M Pandharipande (Osmania University, Hyderabad, IN).

 

  • Information Outage Probability of Orthogonal Space-Time Block Codes over Hoyt Distributed Fading Channels

George Ropokis, Athanasios Rontogiannis, Takis Mathiopoulos (Institute for Space Applications and Remote Sensing, National Observatory of Athens , GR).

 

Physical layer III, Friday, September 15. 14:30-16:00.

Session Chair:  Prof. Takis Mathiopoulos

 

  • Switched Diversity Receivers over Correlated Weibull Fading Channels

Petros Bithas, Takis Mathiopoulos, (National Observatory of Athens, GR); George Karagiannidis (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, GR).

 

  • Trellis Shaping Techniques for Satellite Telecommunication Systems

Marcos Alvarez-Diaz (Universidade de Vigo, ES); Massimo Neri (University of Bologna, IT); Carlos Mosquera (Universidad de Vigo, ES); Giovanni Emanuele Corazza (University of Bologna, IT).

 

  • Subspace Array Processing for Interference Mitigation in L1-Band Galileo Receivers

Matteo Iubatti (University of Bologna, IT); Marika Casadei (University of Bologna, IT); Raffaella Pedone (University of Bologna, IT); Alessandro Vanelli-Coralli (University of Bologna, IT); Giovanni Emanuele Corazza (University of Bologna, IT); Rodolfo Crescimbeni (GJU - Galileo Joint Undertaking, BE).

 

  • A Galileo receiver in High Dynamics Scenario: the PICPOT 2 project

Guido Pagana, Nicolò Antonietti, Risang Gatot Yudanto (Politecnico di Torino, IT).

 

DVB-S2/RCS Systems, Friday, September 15. 16:30-18:00.

Session Chair: Ing. Cristina Párraga

 

  • Analysis of the Efficiency and Delay of Bandwidth Request Algorithms in DVB-RCS

Adil Omari (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, ES); Gonzalo Seco Granados (Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, ES); Maria-Angeles Vazquez Castro (Universidad Autsnoma de Barcelona, ES) Antoni Morell (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), ES); A. Lyhyaoui (National School of Applied Sciences ENSA, MA); N. Raissouni (National School of Applied Sciences ENSA, MO).

 

  • DVB-S2/DVB-RCS satellite system performance assessment for IFE and ATN aeronautical communications

Na Tao (ENAC, FR): Michel Bousquet (SUPAERO, FR); Alain Pirovano (ENAC, FR); Jose Radzik (SUPAERO, FR).

 

  • An Analysis of TCP Startup over an Experimental DVB-RCS Platform

Alberto Gotta (University of Genoa, IT); Francesco Potortì, Raffaello Secchi (ISTI-CNR, IT).

 

Satellite Networking and Application I, Thursday, September 14. 14:30-15:30.

Session Chair: Dr. Jose Ignacio Moreno

 

  • IP multicast over new generation satellite networks. A case study: AmerHis.

Ana Yun (Alcatel Alenia Space España, ES); Isaac Moreno (Alcatel Alenia Space España, ES);  Francisco Javier Ruiz (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid UPM, ES).

 

  • Video Traffic Management in HSDPA via GEO Satellite

Giovanni Giambene (University of Siena, IT); Samuele Giannetti (University of Siena, IT); Cristina Parraga Niebla (German Aerospace Center (DLR), DE); Michal Ries (Vienna University of Technology, AT).

 

  • Multi Attribute Sink Selection Techniques in Satellite Sensor Networks: Study and Performance Evaluation

Igor Bisio (CNIT - University of Genoa, IT); Mario Marchese (CNIT - University of Genoa, IT); Giancarlo Portomauro (CNIT - University of Genoa, IT).

 

Satellite Networking and Application II, Thursday, September 14. 16:00-17:00.

Session Chair: Dr. Antonio Cuevas Casado

 

  • A Transparent P2P Proxy and Caching System for Isolated Networks

Rafael Asorey-Cacheda (Universidad de Vigo, ES); Francisco Castano (Universidad de Vigo, ES); Jose I. Moreno (Universidad Carlos III, ES).

 

  • Cross-layer improvement for TCP Westwood and VoIP over satellite

Maria Kalama (University of Surrey, UK; Astrium Eads, FR); Marie-Paule Kluth, Stephane Mourgues (University of Surrey, UK); B. Evans (Astrium Eads, FR.)

 

  • Application-Layer Techniques for Data Communications over Deep Space Networks

Tomaso De Cola (CNIT - University of Genoa, IT); Harald Ernst (German Aerospace Center (DLR), DE) Mario Marchese (CNIT - University of Genoa, IT).

 

Satellite Networking and Application III, Friday, September 15. 14:30-16:00.

Session Chair: Dipl- Ing Anton Donner

 

  • RELAX: REaL time transmission of flight information and blAck boXes data

Francesca Lo Piccolo (University of Palermo, IT); Nicola Blefari-Melazzi (University of Roma Tor Vergata, IT); Giuseppe Bianchi (University of Roma Tor Vergata, IT).

 

  • PPM Channel Capacity Evaluation for Terrestrial FSO Links

Sajid Sheikh Muhammad (Technische Universitat Graz, AT); Wilfried Gappmair (Graz University of Technology, AT); Erich Leitgeb (Technische Universitat Graz, AT).

 

  • Practical Development of an Embedded Hybrid Wireless DTN Node

F. Gil-Castineira, Francisco J. Gonzalez-Castano, Rafael Asorey-Cacheda (Universidad de Vigo, ES); Laurent Franck, S. Paillard (ENST Toulouse, FR).

 

 

Channel Modelling I, Friday, September 15. 10:00-11:30.

Session Chair: Ing. Rafael Asorey Cacheda

 

  • Modeling of rain fields at large scale

Nicolas Jeannin (ONERA, FR); Laurent Feral (Universite Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, FR); Henri Sauvageot (Universite Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, FR); Laurent Castanet (ONERA, FR); Joel Lemorton (ONERA, FR).

 

  • Short-Term And Mid-Term Prediction Techniques Of Propagation Conditions From Weather Radar Observations - Application to resource management in SATCOM systems

Luis Emiliani (ONERA, FR); Laurent Feral (Universite Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, FR); Aldo Paraboni (Polytechnic of Milan, IT); Laurent Castanet (ONERA, FR); Joel Lemorton (ONERA, FR).

 

  • Land Mobile Propagation Fade Duration Modeling by Markov Chains

Laszlo Csurgai (Budapest University of Technology and Economics, HU); Janos Bito (Budapest University of Technology and Economics, HU).

 

 

Channel Modelling II, Friday, September 15. 12:00-13:30.

Session Chair: Dr. Laurent Castanet

 

  • The Trivariate Weibull Distribution with Arbitrary Correlation

Zafiro Papadimitriou (University of Athens, GR); Nikos Sagias (National Center of Scientific Research "Demokritos", GR); Petros Bithas (National Observatory of Athens, GR); Mathiopoulos Panayiotis (Institute for Space Applications & Remote Sensing, GR); Lazaros Merakos (University of Athens, GR).

 

  • TFMCC Protocol Behaviour in Satellite Multicast with Variable Return Path Delays

Chamil Kulatunga (University of Aberdeen, UK); Gorry Fairhurst (University of Aberdeen, UK).

 

  • Convergent-reconstruction-based Inter-Layer Inter-Satellite Links Establishment Strategies for Two-tier LEO/MEO Satellite Networks

Tingyong Wu, Jianhao Hu, Shiqi Wu (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, CN).

 

 

 

 

 

 

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