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Abstract
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The Internet, especially the World Wide Web (WWW), is currently considered as a particular promising application for the future Ka-Band systems and consequently most of the planned systems shall support Internet applications. However, it is far from clear how the application scenario will develop in future. But for certain there is an increasing requirement to incorporate Quality of Service (QoS) features into the Internet in order to support also applications with stringent timing requirements, e.g. video. Furthermore it can be expected, that the volume of traffic, based on MPEG/DVB technology, will grow. In most of the projected Ka-Band systems an on-board fast packet switch will be used. Flexible support of the various services with their different QoS requirements is therefore a key requirement for this switch. The Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) is a particular interesting technology since it supports QoS and allows a flexible adaptation to the varying requirements. ATM technology therefore provides an excellent basis for an On-board Multiservice Switch....
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Reference entry
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Trefz, M.; Dolzer, K.
An Experimental On-board Multiservice Switch
Proceedings of the 5th European Conference on Satellite Communications, Toulouse, November 1999
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