This book provides significant knowledge on innovative radio resource management schemes for satellite communication systems that exploit lower layer adaptivity and the knowledge of layer 3 IP QoS support and transport layer behavior. The book integrates competencies considering all the parts of system design: propagation aspects, radio resource management, access protocols, network protocols, transport layer protocols, and more, to cover both broadband and mobile satellite systems.

The current book provides a final report of activity performed by the COST 290 Action, ''Traffic and QoS Management in Wireless Multimedia Networks, '' which ran from March 10, 2004, until June 3, 2008. After an introduction to the COST framework and the Action's survey time-frame and activities, the main part of the book addresses a number of technical issues, which are structured into several chapters. All those issues have been carefully investigated by the COST 290 community during the course of the project - the information presented in this book can be regarded as ultimate for each...

Radio transmissions have opened new frontiers allowing the exchange of information with remote units. From the first applications of telegraphy and radio broadcast, wireless transmissions have obtained a great success with the widespread diffusion of mobile communications. We live in the communication era, where any kind of information must be easy accessible to any user at any time. Mobile communication systems are the technical support that allows the realization of such concepts. With the term mobile communications we embrace a set of technologies for radio transmissions, network...

Nowadays, satellites are used for a variety of purposes, including sensors and data collection, weather, maritime navigation and timing, Earth observation, and communications. In particular, satellite transmissions have an important role in telephone communications, television broadcasting, computer com- nications as well as navigation. The use of satellites for communications was a brilliant idea of Arthur C. ClarkewhowroteafamousarticleinOctober1945intheWirelessWorldjo- nal, entitled Extra Terrestrial Relays - Can Rocket Stations Give Worldwide Coverage? that described the use of manned...

Constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the Third International ICST Conference on Personal Satellite Services, PSATS 2011, held in Malaga, Spain, in February 2011. This book presents the papers that cover a range of topics such as multimedia IP, next generation satellite networks, bandwidth allocation, and localization systems.

Now in an expanded second edition, this text on current networking technologies and protocols covers theory and applications, and now includes fresh solved exercises as well as detailed treatment of new topics in networking, such as MPLS and access protocols.