Resource management and network layer

Authors: Barsocchi, P., Chai, W.K. et al.

Pages: 243-287

ISBN: 9780387368979

DOI: 10.1007/978-0-387-53991-1_8

Abstract:

The Internet protocols have become the worldwide standard for network and transport protocols and are increasingly used in satellite communication networks. Also traditional telecommunication and broadcast applications like VoIP and video streaming are transported over the Internet, although it does not support natively applications with tight QoS requirements. In satellite communication networks, further challenges arise, as bandwidth resources are limited and physical transmission time adds some more pressure on delay constraints. Since resources are limited, the efficient assignment of bandwidth to different data streams has always been an issue for satellite communications. However, supporting QoS for IP-based applications results in additional requirements for resource allocation. In order to provide QoS for applications, several layers of the protocol stack of a satellite communication system will need to be adapted or have to interact with each other in some way. This Chapter will concentrate on different resource management schemes at the MAC layer (layer 2) for supporting IP QoS (layer 3). This Chapter begins with an overview of the current IP QoS frameworks in Section 8.2. In Section 8.3, the discussion is focused on the interaction of layer 2 and layer 3 in satellite environments for the support of IP QoS. This Section ends with an example of implementation for a variant of one of the most popular IP QoS frameworks. The following Section 8.4 provides an in-depth work on achieving QoS requirements by a cross-layer approach over SI-SAP. Section 8.5 looks into another aspect of resource management: the QoS provisioning for terminals supporting dual network access (WiFi and satellite). Implicit cross-layer design methodology is used in Section 8.6 for switched Ethernet over LEO satellite networks. Finally, this Chapter is concluded in Section 8.7. In the studies carried out in this Chapter, Scenario 2 (i.e., GEO-based DVB-S/-RCS systems; see Chapter 1, Section 1.4) has been adopted, except for the considerations made in Section 8.6, where Scenario 3 (i.e., LEO satellite) has been considered. © 2007 Springer Science+Business Media, LLC.

Source: Scopus