Unit:
Κατεύθυνση Τεχνολογίες Πληροφορικής και ΕπικοινωνιώνΠληροφορική
Supervisors info:
Δρ. Παναγιώτης Μαθιόπουλος , Καθηγητής, Τμήμα Πληροφορικής, ΕΚΠΑ
Δημήτρης Βαρουτάς, Αναπληρωτής Καθηγητής, Τμήμα Πληροφορικής, ΕΚΠΑ
Γεώργιος Αλεξανδρόπουλος, Επίκουρος Καθηγητής, Τμήμα Πληροφορικής, ΕΚΠΑ
Original Title:
A REVIEW STUDY OF EUROPEAN R&D PROJECTS FOR SATELLITE COMMUNICATIONS IN 5G/6G ERA
Translated title:
A review study of European R&D projects for satellite communications in 5G/6G era
Summary:
Over the last decades satellite telecommunication systems offer many types of multimedia services like Satellite TV, telephony and broadband internet access. The long-term technological evolutions occurred into state-of-the-art satellite systems altogether with the addition of new high throughput geostatic and non-geostatic systems, individual satellites can now achieve a peak bandwidth of up to Gbps, and with possible extension into satellite constellation systems the total capacity can reach up to Tbps. Supplementary, with systems latency being comparable to terrestrial infrastructures and with integration of several computer science technologies, satellite systems can achieve new & more advanced roles inside a heterogeneous 5G network’s ecosystem.
In this thesis, we have studied European Space Agency (ESA’s) and European Union’s (EU) Horizon 2020 Research and Development (R&D) funded projects in order to describe the satellite capabilities within a 5G heterogeneous network, mentioning the impact of the evolution of digital satellite communications and furthermore the integration with the state-of the art & future terrain telecommunication systems by new technologies occurred through the evolution of electronic & free space optical communications alongside with the integration of computer science’s technologies like Software Defined Networking (SDN) and Network Function Virtualization (NFV).
In order to describe this evolution we have studied the concepts of each individual project, categorized chronically and individual by its scientific field of research. Our main scientific trends for this thesis are:
-Satellite Integration studies & strategies into the 5G terrestrial networks
-Integration of SDN and NFV technologies on 5G satellite component
-Satellite’s role in the Internet of Things applications over 5G terrestrial networks
-Satellite’s role in Content Distribution Networks & internet protocols impact over user’s Quality of Experience (QoE) over a satellite link
-The future proposals upon the evolution of Satellite systems by upcoming improvements and corresponding standards
Finally, we have created an Annex for technical details upon the evolution of physical layer of the satellite systems with the corresponding bibliography of this thesis for future study.
Main subject category:
Technology - Computer science
Keywords:
DVB-S2X, 5G, SDN, NFV, IoT, CDN, OISL, 5G Satellite Component
Number of references:
207
