Satellite Networking: Principles and Protocols, Second Edition

This book provides up to date coverage of the basics of ATM and internet protocols, and characteristics of satellite networks and internetworking between satellite and terrestrial networks

Satellite Networking: Principles and Protocols, Second Edition provides up to date information of the original topics in satellite networking and protocols focusing on Internet Protocols (IP) over satellites, broadband over satellites, next generation IP (IPv6) over satellites, new generation of DVB-S/S2 and DVB-RCS next generations and new services and applications. It also includes some analytical techniques for evaluation of end to end IP performance and QoS over satellite, reflecting the recent convergence of telecommunication, Internet, broadcasting and mobile networks.

Topics new to this edition: Internetworking with MANET, DVB-S/S2 and DVB-RCS/RCS2 (including TCP/IP over DVB-S/RCS), recent developments in broadband satellite systems, convergence of services and network technologies (including Internet, telecom, mobile, TV, etc.), radio resource management, PEP, I-PEP, SCPS, traffic modelling and engineering with analysis and examples, and future developments of satellite networking.

• Provides up to date coverage of the basics of ATM and internet protocols, and characteristics of satellite networks and internetworking between satellite and terrestrial networks (e.g. mobile ad hoc networks), including coverage of new services and applications (e.g. Internet, telecom, mobile and TV)
• Discusses the real-time protocols including RTP, RTCP and SIP for real-time applications such as VoIP and MMC, and explains TCP/IP over satellite and evolution of IPv6 over satellite and beyond
• Includes PowerPoint slides for lecturers as well as problems to encourage readers’ understanding of concepts and principles as well as an accompanying website containing a solutions manual and further exercises

About the Author

Prof. Zhili Sun (Chair of Communication Networking) is with the Centre for Communication Systems Research (CCSR), University of Surrey. He received a BSc in Mathematics from Nanjing University in 1982 and a PhD in Computer Science from Lancaster University in 1991. He was a Research and Teaching Assistant in Southeast University in China from 1982 to 1985. He worked as a postdoctoral research fellow in Queen Mary University of London from 1989 to 1993. He joined the University of Surrey in 1993. He was principal investigator and technical co-ordinator in many European projects, including the ESPRIT BISANTE project on the evaluation of broadband traffic over satellite using a simulation approach, the VIP-TEN project on Quality of Service (QoS) of IP telephony over satellite, the European Union Fifth and Sixth Framework Programme GEOCAST project on IP Multicast over satellites, the ICEBERGS project on IP based Multimedia Conference over Satellite, the SatLife project on IP over DVB-S/RCS, the SATSIX project on IPv6 over satellite, the Euro-NGI project on next generation Internet, the RINGRID project on remote instrumentation over GRID computing, the EC-GIN project on EU-China Grid Internetworking, the HCast project for hybrid secure multicast funded by the United Kingdom Electronics and Physical Sciences Research Council, and LKH over satellite funded by the European Space Agency (ESA) and industries. He is a principal investigator in the EU FP7 MONET project on inter-networking between Wireless Mobile Networks and Satellite networks and the UK-China Science Bridge project on beyond 4G networks funded by UKRC, and co-investigator in the multi-layer security funded by EADS Astrium UK. He has supervised over 40 PhDs and 20 postdoctoral research fellows. He has published over 150 papers in international journals and three books as author or co-author. He is also an active contributor to ITU-T and ETSI in QoS and IP multicast over satellite. His areas of interest include IP networking protocols and technologies, satellite communications and networking, Internet and teletraffic engineering, network security, mobile and wireless communications and mobile operating systems.