Satellite Networking: Principles and Protocols, 2nd Edition

Chapter 4Satellite Internetworking with Terrestrial Networks

This chapter aims to provide an introduction to satellite internetworking with terrestrial networks in terms of related access and transit transmission networks. It also provides an introduction to network traffic related to user plane, control plane and management plane, network hypothetical reference connection, traffic engineering, network signalling schemes, performance objectives, SDH over satellite, and internetworking between the satellite and mobile ad hoc networks. When you have completed this chapter, you should be able to:

• Know the basic terminologies and concepts concerning internetworking.
• Know about network traffic related to user plane, control plane and management plane.
• Describe the network hypothetical reference connection.
• Describe the differences between multiplexing and multiple access schemes.
• Understand the basic concept of traffic engineering.
• Understand the evolution of digital networks.
• Identify different types of signalling schemes.
• Identify the performance objectives of satellite networks in end-to-end reference connections.
• Understand the issues of SDH over satellite.
• Understand the concept of internetworking between the satellite and MANET.

4.1 Networking Concepts

Telecommunication networks were originally designed, developed and optimised with respect to the speech transmission quality of narrow-band 3.1 kHz real-time telephony services.

In the early generation of data networks in ...