When satellite is all you have
Daniel Perdices, Gianluca Perna, Martino Trevisan, Danilo Giordano, Marco Mellia
Abstract
Satellite Communication (SatCom) offers internet connectivity where traditional infrastructures are too expensive to deploy. When using satellites in a geostationary orbit, the distance from Earth forces a round trip time higher than 550 ms. Coupled with the limited and shared capacity of the physical link, this poses a challenge to the traditional internet access quality we are used to.
Topics & Concepts
Geostationary orbitSatelliteCommunications satelliteComputer scienceThe InternetLow earth orbitTelecommunicationsInternet accessComputer networkRemote sensingAerospace engineeringGeographyWorld Wide WebEngineeringSatellite Communication SystemsOpportunistic and Delay-Tolerant NetworksMobile Agent-Based Network Management