| Project: |
Integration of Satellite and Terrestrial Heterogeneous Systems (SHINES) |
| Main Coordinator: |
Marina Ruggieri, Università di Roma Tor Vergata |
| Laboratory Unit Coordinator: |
Antonio Iera |
| Support: |
Italian Ministry of Research - Project of National Relevance (PRIN) |
| Main Research Objectives: |
The main objective of the research is to contribute to the design of the integration of the satellite/HAPS platforms into the communication systems of future generation, with a particular attention to: the definition of the role of the satellite within the asymmetrical (terrestrial Uploand and satellite Download) and symmetrical (both Upload and Download over the satellite) platforms; the management of the “adaptive“ quality of service (soft-QoS) for multimedia applications; the definition of QoS metrics for multimedia applications over terrestrial-satellite integrated systems; the study and the design of techniques for the optimization of the resource utilization (call admission, resource allocation) in -RCS (Digital Video Broadcasting – Return Channel via Satellite) systems; the study of the most appropriate transport solution (mainly for the data IP traffic with and without QoS guarantees) for Multicast traffic over integrated HAP and terrestrial UMTS systems. |
| Involved People: |
Giuseppe Araniti; Antonio Iera; Antonino Modafferi; Antonella Molinaro. |
| Partners: |
Università di Roma “Tor Vergata", Politecnico di Torino, Università della Calabria, Università di Firenze, Università di Napoli “Federico II”, Università di Lecce |
| Starting date: |
2001-12-01 |
| Duration (months): |
24 |
| Involved Research Areas: |
ING-INF/03. |
