MAC and encapsulation efficiency of satellite DVB using fade mitigation techniques

Abstract The paper discusses cross‐layer issues of DVB‐S2 networks with adaptive coding and modulation (ACM) on the physical layer forward link. Also future return channel via satellite (RCS) systems employing adaptive schemes on the return link are analysed. Cross‐layer issues focus on medium access control (MAC) and encapsulation layer effects. Recent work of the S2 encapsulation over generic streams (GS) is described, and the effects on quality of service (QoS) scheduling for the forward link are analysed by means of simulation. A performance comparison between DVB‐S and S2, both for transport streams (TS) and GS shows a significant gain by new encapsulation and fragmentation protocols that allow fragmentation across BBFrames. Here, realistic traffic scenarios with a mix of several services as well as rain fading are taken into account. For the return link, an adaptive scheme is discussed, going beyond the current RCS standard. Several approaches for access burst structures are presented and their impact on link efficiency through padding and encapsulation overhead is simulated. Finally, burst segmentation impact on jitter is investigated. Copyright © 2006 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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