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Context-aware hybrid satellite-terrestrial broadband access
journal contribution
posted on 2018-10-16, 10:02 authored by Erhan Ekmekcioglu, Barry Evans, Ahmet Kondoz, Paul Thompson, Luc Ottavj, Fabrice Gamberini, Simon WattsOne of the key performance targets on the European Commission’s Digital Agenda is to provide at least 30 Mbit/s broadband coverage to all European households by 2020. The deployment of existing terrestrial technologies will not be able to satisfy the requirements in the most difficult-to-serve locations, either due to a lack of coverage in areas where the revenue potential for terrestrial service providers is too low, or due to technological limitations that diminish the available throughput in rural environments. In this paper we investigate a hybrid broadband system combining satellite and terrestrial access networks. The system design and the key building blocks of the intelligent routing entities (referred to as intelligent gateways) are presented. To justify the hybrid broadband system’s performance subjectively, lab trials have been performed with an integrated multiple access network emulator and a variety of typical multimedia applications that have varying requirements. The results of the lab trials suggest that the Quality of Experience is consistently improved thanks to the utilisation of intelligent gateway devices, when compared to using a single access network at a time.
Funding
This work has been supported by the BATS Project (Broadband Access via Integrated Terrestrial & Satellite Systems) funded by the European Commission’s Seventh Framework Programme under contract no 317533.
History
School
- Loughborough University London
Published in
International Journal of Satellite Communications and NetworkingVolume
37Issue
6Pages
513-526Citation
EKMEKCIOGLU, E. ... et al, 2018. Context-aware hybrid satellite-terrestrial broadband access. International Journal of Satellite Communications and Networking, 37(6), pp. 513-526.Publisher
© John Wiley & Sons Ltd.Version
- AM (Accepted Manuscript)
Publisher statement
This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: EKMEKCIOGLU, E. ... et al, 2018. Context-aware hybrid satellite-terrestrial broadband access. International Journal of Satellite Communications and Networking, 37(6), pp. 513-526, which has been published in final form at https://doi.org/10.1002/sat.1291. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Use of Self-Archived Versions.Acceptance date
2018-10-08Publication date
2018-11-18Copyright date
2019ISSN
1542-0973eISSN
1542-0981Publisher version
Language
- en