CONTENTS

Policy on Intellectual Property Right (IPR)
Annex 1  Reference architectures for implementing cross-layer design approaches
 1     Scope
 2     Reference architectures
        2.1     Hybrid satellite-WiFi network architecture
        2.2     Hybrid satellite-WiMAX network architecture
                  2.2.1     Hybrid satellite-WiMAX network protocol architecture
Annex 2  Cross-layer based QoS performance of hybrid satellite-terrestrial networks
 1     Scope
 2     Rain fade mitigation and cross-layer QoS design
 3     Fading effects on QoS for satellite-WiFi multimedia networks
        3.1     Simulation network model
        3.2     Bandwidth On Demand (BOD) scheme used in OPNET simulations
                  3.2.1     Return channel bandwidth allocation algorithm
        3.3     Simulation experiments and performance results – Scenario 1
                  3.3.1     Simulation model
                  3.3.2     Simulation experiment results
                  3.3.3     Summary
        3.4     Simulation experiments and performance results – Scenario 2
                  3.4.1     Simulation network model
                  3.4.2     QoS provisioning
                  3.4.3     Traffic model
                  3.4.4     Satellite link loading
                  3.4.5     Simulation parameters
                  3.4.6     Simulation experiments results
                  3.4.7     Summary
 4     Cross-layer based QoS for VoIP in hybrid satellite-WiMAX networks
        4.1     Introduction
        4.2     Cross-layer VoIP rate adaptation
                  4.2.1     RTCP driven approach
                  4.2.2     Adaptive multirate wideband (AMR-WB) approach
        4.3     Satellite-WiMAX performance model
                  4.3.1     Delay model
        4.4     Performance results
                  4.4.1     Satellite subnetwork: Aggregate rate adaptation
                  4.4.2     Terrestrial subnetwork performance
        4.5     Summary
Annex 3  Cross-layer design for satellite link using TCP as transport protocol
 1     Scope
 2     Introduction
 3     Reference network architecture
        3.1     Simulation parameters
        3.2     Assumptions
 4     Performance results
 5     Summary
 6     Conclusions