Communications and networking over satellites: SatNEx experimental activities and testbeds

Communications and networking over satellites: SatNEx experimental activities and testbeds

One of the aims of the SatNEx (Satellite Network of Excellence, http://www.satnex.de) European project is to provide the scientific community that operates on satellite communications with measurement campaign results and evaluation tools, in order to support research activities that investigate problems in satellite communications at different levels of the OSI stack. In fact, the research act...

Using Programmable Network Management Techniques to Establish Experimental Networking Testbeds

The way in which research groups evaluate router software (QoS and routing components, for example) seems to be restricted to methodologies using mathematical modelling and simulation techniques. We believe that an experimental methodology is rarely used as the deployment of custom routing software to a testbed comprising multiple routers is a non-trivial task that is beyond the scope of most n...

The Satellite Communications Network of Excellence “SatNEx”

SatNEx aims to overcome the fragmentation in Europe’s satellite communications research by bringing together Europe’s leading academic institutions and research organisations in a cohesive and durable way. This paper gives an overview over the first two phases of the SatNEx Network of Excellence project, as well as an outlook to the extension, SatNEx-III, planned for the years 2009 – 2012. Keyw...

Cloud networking and communications

Cloud computing is having an important impact on communication networks, both fixed and mobile, stimulating intensive research and standardization of new network architectures, protocols and resource management mechanisms. In the literature, significant attention has been devoted to system aspects of Cloud computing. More recently, however, the focus is shifting towards Cloud networking and com...

Green Communications and Networking