Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in

Improving web experience on DVB-RCS2 links

  • Published:
annals of telecommunications - annales des télécommunications Aims and scope Submit manuscript

Abstract

The specifications of digital video broadcasting—return channel via satellite (DVB-RCS2) state that the satellite gateway could introduce both random and dedicated access methods to distribute the capacity among the different home users. Before starting an engineering process to design an algorithm allowing to combine both methods, it seems necessary to assess the performance of each. This paper compares random and dedicated access methods by measuring their impact on the performance of transmission control protocol (TCP) sessions when the home users exploit the DVB-RCS2 link for regular use (e.g., web browsing or email transmission). In this paper, we detail the implementation of an NS-2 module emulating physical channel access (PCA). This module fills a gap in terms of random and deterministic access methods and allows to model various satellite channel access strategies. Based on NS-2 simulations using realistic system parameters of the DVB-RCS2 link, we demonstrate that, compared to dedicated access methods, which generally result in higher levels of transmitted data, random access methods enable faster transmission for short flows. We propose to combine random and dedicated access methods, with the selection of a specific method dependent on the dynamic load of the network and the sequence number of the TCP segments.

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this article

Log in via an institution

Price excludes VAT (USA)
Tax calculation will be finalised during checkout.

Instant access to the full article PDF.

Institutional subscriptions

Fig. 1
Fig. 2
Fig. 3
Fig. 4
Fig. 5
Fig. 6
Fig. 7
Fig. 8
Fig. 9
Fig. 10

Similar content being viewed by others

References

  1. Second generation DVB interactive satellite system; part 1: overview and system level specification. In: Digital Video Broadcasting (DVB) TS 101 545-1

  2. Second generation DVB interactive satellite system; part 2: lower layers for satellite standard. In: Digital Video Broadcasting (DVB) ETSI EN 101 545-2 V1.1.1

  3. Second generation dvb interactive satellite system (dvb-rcs2); part 3: higher layers satellite specification. In: Digital Video Broadcasting (DVB) TS 101 545–3

  4. O3b Networks and Sofrecom (2013) Why latency matters to mobile backhaul. Tech. rep., O3b Networks

  5. Kuhn N, Mehani O, Bui HC, Lacan J, Radzik J, Lochin E (2013) Physical Channel Access (PCA): time and frequency access methods simulation in NS-2. In: 5th international conference on personal satellite services (PSATS)

  6. Kuhn N, Bui HC, Lacan J, Radzik J, Lochin E (2013) On the benefits of random access methods on TCP performance over DVB-RCS2. In: ACM MobiCom workshop on lowest cost denominator networking for universal access (LCDNet)

  7. Herrero O, Gaudenzi R, Vidal J (2012) Design guidelines for advanced random access protocols. In: International conference on satellite and space communications (ICSSC)

  8. Casini E, De Gaudenzi R, Herrero O (2007) Contention resolution diversity slotted ALOHA (CRDSA): an enhanced random access schemefor satellite access packet networks. IEEE Trans Wirel Commun 6:1408–1419. doi:10.1109/TWC.2007.348337

    Article  Google Scholar 

  9. Bui HC, Lacan J, Boucheret ML (2012) An enhanced multiple random access scheme for satellite communications. In: Wireless telecommunications symposium (WTS). London, UK

  10. Abramson N (1970) The ALOHA system: another alternative for computer communications. In: Proceedings of the November 17–19, 1970, fall joint computer conference, AFIPS ‘70 (Fall). ACM, New York, pp 281–285. doi:10.1145/1478462.1478502

  11. Choudhury G, Rappaport S (1983) Diversity ALOHA—a random access scheme for satellite communications. IEEE Trans Wirel Commun 31:450–457. doi:10.1109/TCOM.1983.1095828

    Article  Google Scholar 

  12. Błaszczyszyn B, Mühlethaler P, Toor Y (2013) Stochastic analysis of aloha in vehicular ad hoc networks. Annales of Telecommunications

  13. Espes D, Lagrange X, Surez L (2015) A cross-layer mac and routing protocol based on slotted aloha for wireless sensor networks. Annales of Telecommunications

  14. Roseti C, Kristiansen E (2006) TCP behaviour in a DVB-RCS environment. In: International communications satellite systems conferences (ICSSC). doi:10.2514/ICSSC.6.2006-5404

  15. Luglio M, Zampognaro F, Morell T, Vieira F (2007) Joint DAMA-TCP protocol optimization through multiple cross layer interactions in DVB RCS scenario. In: International workshop on satellite and space communications (IWSSC), pp 121 –125. doi:10.1109/IWSSC.2007.4409402

  16. Belli F, Luglio M, Roseti C, Zampognaro F (2009) Evaluation of TCP performance over emulated DVB-RCS scenario with multiple RCSTs. In: International workshop on satellite and space communications (IWSSC), pp 424–428. doi:10.1109/IWSSC.2009.5286320

  17. Celandroni N, Secchi R (2009) Suitability of dama and contention-based satellite access schemes for tcp traffic in mobile dvb-rcs. IEEE Trans Veh Technol 58(4):1836–1845. doi:10.1109/TVT.2008.2007899

    Article  Google Scholar 

  18. Tambuwal A, Secchi R, Fairhurst G (2011) Exploration of random access in DVB-RCS. In: PostGraduate symposium on the convergence of telecommunications, networking and broadcasting (PGNET)

  19. Celandroni N, Davoli F, Ferro E, Gotta A (2012) Employing contention resolution random access schemes for elastic traffic on satellite channels. In: 18th Ka and broadband communications navigation and earth observation conference, pp 271–277

  20. Bacco M, Gotta A, Roseti C, Zampognaro F (2014) A study on TCP error recovery interaction with Random Access satellite schemes. In: Advanced satellite multimedia systems conference and the 13th signal processing for space communications workshop (ASMS/SPSC), 2014 7th, pp 405–410. doi:10.1109/ASMS-SPSC.2014.6934574

  21. Lochin E, Pérennou T, Dairaine L (2012) When should I use network emulation? Ann Telecommun 67:247–255. doi:10.1007/s12243-011-0268-5

    Article  Google Scholar 

  22. Gayraud T, Bertaux L, Berthou P (2009) A NS-2 simulation model of DVB-S2/RCS satellite network. In: 15th Kaband conference (Italy), vol 1. http://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00435764. 09702 09702

  23. Secchi R (2011) DVB-RCS(2) for ns-2. Technical report, University of Aberdeen. http://homepages.abdn.ac.uk/r.secchi/pages/dvbrcs_ns2.htm

  24. Bui HC, Lacan J, Boucheret ML (2012) Access methods based on physical-layer network coding. Ph.D. thesis (ISAE)

  25. Ciullo D, Mellia M, Meo M (2009) Two schemes to reduce latency in short lived TCP flows. IEEE Commun Lett 13:806–808. doi:10.1109/LCOMM.2009.091149

    Article  Google Scholar 

  26. Labovitz C, Iekel-Johnson S, McPherson D, Oberheide J, Jahanian F, Karir M (2009) Atlas internet observatory annual report. In: 47th NANOG

  27. Cao J, Cleveland W, Gao Y, Jeffay K, Smith F, Weigle M (2004) Stochastic models for generating synthetic http source traffic. In: INFOCOM 2004. Twenty-third AnnualJoint conference of the IEEE computer and communications societies, vol 3, pp 546–1557. doi:10.1109/INFCOM.2004.1354568

  28. Celis Muñoz EA, Le Denmat F, Morin A, Lagrange X (2014) Multimedia content delivery trigger in a mobile network to reduce the peak load. Annales of Telecommunications

  29. Kissling C, Munari A (2013) On the integration of random access and DAMA channels for the return link of satellite networks. In: IEEE international conference on communications (ICC)

  30. Bixby J (2013) Top ecommerce sites are 22 % slower than they were last year. http://www.webperformancetoday.com/2013/03/27/top-ecommerce-sites-are-slower-than-they-were-last-year/

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. IMT Télécom Bretagne, IRISA, 2 rue de la Chataigneraie, 35510, Cesson-Sevigne, France

    Nicolas Kuhn

  2. ISAE, 10 Avenue Édouard Belin, 31400, Toulouse, France

    Nicolas Kuhn, Huyen-Chi Bui, Emmanuel Lochin, Jérôme Lacan & José Radzik

  3. National ICT Australia, Australian Technology Park, Level 5, 13 Garden Street, Eveleigh, NSW, 2015, Australia

    Nicolas Kuhn, Olivier Mehani & Roksana Boreli

Authors
  1. Nicolas Kuhn
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  2. Olivier Mehani
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  3. Huyen-Chi Bui
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  4. Emmanuel Lochin
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  5. Jérôme Lacan
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  6. José Radzik
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  7. Roksana Boreli
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Corresponding author

Correspondence to Nicolas Kuhn.

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

About this article

Check for updates. Verify currency and authenticity via CrossMark

Cite this article

Kuhn, N., Mehani, O., Bui, HC. et al. Improving web experience on DVB-RCS2 links. Ann. Telecommun. 70, 451–463 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12243-015-0467-6

Download citation

  • Received:

  • Accepted:

  • Published:

  • Issue Date:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12243-015-0467-6

Keywords

Search

Navigation