Personal Satellite Services. International Conference, PSATS 2009, Rome, Italy, March 18-19, 2009, Revised Selected Papers

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PEP Deployment and Bandwidth Management Issues

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  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.1007/978-3-642-04260-7_10,
        author={Charles Younghusband and Peter Slade and Jeff Weaver},
        title={PEP Deployment and Bandwidth Management Issues},
        proceedings={Personal Satellite Services. International Conference, PSATS 2009, Rome, Italy, March 18-19, 2009, Revised Selected Papers},
        proceedings_a={PSATS},
        year={2012},
        month={5},
        keywords={},
        doi={10.1007/978-3-642-04260-7_10}
    }
    
  • Charles Younghusband
    Peter Slade
    Jeff Weaver
    Year: 2012
    PEP Deployment and Bandwidth Management Issues
    PSATS
    Springer
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-04260-7_10
Charles Younghusband1,*, Peter Slade1,*, Jeff Weaver1,*
  • 1: XipLink, Inc.
*Contact email: cyounghusband@xiplink.com, pslade@xiplink.com, jweaver@xiplink.com

Abstract

This paper will discuss current deployment scenarios for Performance Enhancement Proxies (PEP) technologies in broadband satellite access systems from the perspective of one PEP technology provider.   Recent improvements such as DVB-S2 can provide substantial gains at the link layer. In order to achieve further efficiency gains, the satellite industry is now forced to look elsewhere – namely other layers in the data communications network stack. Satellite terminal manufacturers are now moving beyond basic TCP acceleration techniques to more comprehensive optimization techniques that incorporate advances in data compression and flexibility for more deployment scenarios.  Some of the advances for PEP technology are in part due to CPU and memory technology advances, resulting in increasingly affordable access to computing power, allowing PEP manufacturers deliver substantial performance and bandwidth savings gains.