What´s new in military satellite communications?

Author

Bertram, D.

Author_Institution

Defence Res. Agency, Defford, UK

fYear

1996

fDate

35172

Firstpage

42430

Lastpage

42435

Abstract

ATM is the basic transport mechanism for future broadband integrated service digital networks (B-ISDN) and allows services with highly diverse requirements. This paper focuses primarily on the work being done in the Defence Research Agency (DRA) on transporting ATM over military satellites and the broader issue of integrating SATCOM seamlessly into terrestrial wide area networks. Some of the issues are not unique to ATM, but are fundamental to any packet protocol used over MILSATCOM, some of the concerns are specific to ATM. It also describes the EHF package proposed for Skynet 5, geolocation of unauthorised users of geostationary satellites and the DELOS package being developed in the DRA

Keywords

B-ISDN; asynchronous transfer mode; military communication; packet switching; protocols; radio direction-finding; satellite communication; wide area networks; ATM; B-ISDN; DELOS package; DRA; Defence Research Agency; EHF package; Geolocation; Geostationary satellites; MILSATCOM; Skynet 5; broadband integrated service digital networks; military satellite communications; military satellites; packet protocol; transport mechanism; unauthorised users;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

iet

Conference_Titel

What's New in Satellite Communications?, IEE Colloquium on

Conference_Location

London

Type

conf

DOI

10.1049/ic:19960534

Filename

543354