Innovative DAMA algorithm for multimedia DVB-RCS system

De, Albiol Lorena, Aguiar, Baladrón Carlos, Carro Belén, Sánchez-Esguevillas, Sánchez-Esguevillas Antonio

Description

Satellite is often used as an access network in the Next Generation Networks landscape, where multimedia and real-time services are supported by return channels. However, these satellite return channels are a very limited resource with many terminal stations competing for its use, making its efficient assignation one of the key problems to solve in order to increase network performance. This article presents an innovative implementation of the resource allocation mechanism demand assigned multiple access (DAMA) applied to satellite return channel assignment, which provides support for dynamic allocation and quality-of-service. This resource allocation mechanism has been validated with the special purpose advanced Internet network emulator, using the test lab implementation to optimize traffic mapping and queue parameters directly in the field. The numerical results for the different test cases considered are presented, showing that the DAMA algorithm provided is an efficient way of assigning resources, and also helping in the comparison of the different capacity request mechanisms described in the standard.

Sujets

• Agent
• Controller
• DAMA
• DVB-RCS
• QoS
• Resource allocation
• Satellite

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• Publié par: biomed
• Publié le: 01 janvier 2013
• Nombre de lectures: 12
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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de la Cuestaet al. EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking2013,2013:14 http://jwcn.eurasipjournals.com/content/2013/1/14

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Innovative DAMA algorithm for multimedia DVBRCS system 1 2 1 1* 1 Borja de la Cuesta , Lorena Albiol , Javier M Aguiar , Carlos Baladrón , Belén Carro 1 and Antonio SánchezEsguevillas

Abstract Satellite is often used as an access network in the Next Generation Networks landscape, where multimedia and realtime services are supported by return channels. However, these satellite return channels are a very limited resource with many terminal stations competing for its use, making its efficient assignation one of the key problems to solve in order to increase network performance. This article presents an innovative implementation of the resource allocation mechanism demand assigned multiple access (DAMA) applied to satellite return channel assignment, which provides support for dynamic allocation and qualityofservice. This resource allocation mechanism has been validated with the special purpose advanced Internet network emulator, using the test lab implementation to optimize traffic mapping and queue parameters directly in the field. The numerical results for the different test cases considered are presented, showing that the DAMA algorithm provided is an efficient way of assigning resources, and also helping in the comparison of the different capacity request mechanisms described in the standard. Keywords:Agent, Controller, DAMA, DVBRCS, QoS, Resource allocation, Satellite

1. Introduction In the world of convergent multimedia communications and Next Generation Networks, satellite systems play an important role as access networks [13] due to their cap ability of providing global coverage, and recent research works [46] are pushing further the limits of this tech nology. However, the modern end user wants to access multimedia, realtime, and interactive services, demand ing increasing amounts of bandwidth, through satellite systems, and with strong qualityofservice (QoS) require ments [7]. Coping with these requirements becomes a challenge for satellite networks, which, due to their spe cific space nature, present important limitations in cap acity and capabilities. Digital video broadcastingreturn channel via satellite (DVBRCS) [810] is a key European standard published by European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) focused on the specification of an interactive bi directional channel inside a broadband satellite system, with which multimedia QoSenabled IP communications

* Correspondence: [e-mail] 1 Universidad de Valladolid, Valladolid, Spain Full list of author information is available at the end of the article

are possible. The successor to this standard, called DVB RCS2, has recently been approved in May 2012 [1113]. The next generation of DVBRCS systems must provide costeffective solutions in order to be competitive with respect to other terrestrial access technologies. The DVBRCS standard has widely been used in sys tems deployed all around the world, as for instance in the AmerHis platform offered by Hispasat [14] or several other commercial solutions as detailed by the European Space Agency (ESA) [15]. However, DVBRCS systems suffer from the typical problems of satellite architectures, including long delays and limited and expensive bandwidth. In the past, satel lite systems divided the bandwidth in fixed allocations and therefore the number of users was limited, and it was quite clear that a more efficient approach had to be designed in order to make a more efficient use of that expensive bandwidth. The importance of bandwidth ma nagement is so high that in the new DVBRCS2 stand ard, even random access to the medium is allowed in order to optimize resource usage. The demand assigned multiple access (DAMA) [16] has been included in the specification of DVBRCS and

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