Feasibility Study of an Alert Messaging System by Means of CubeSat, SDR and Web Service Technologies

Fanfani, Alessio; Jayousi, Sara; Morosi, Simone; Ronga, Luca Simone; Re, E. Del; Rossettini, L.

doi:10.1109/glocom.2017.8255089

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“…A better solution should be to define interoperable application layer protocols for a wider set of application scenarios and traffic data configurations, which could be employed on top of already defined lower layer satellite protocols, also evaluating the chance to adapt protocols not explicitly designed for satellites. For example, Fanfani et al describe a CubeSat mission called D‐SAT where the CSP has been used to transmit alert messages between the satellite and an alert authority generated by the multiple alert message encapsulation over satellite (MAMES) application protocol . Another example is the employment of small satellite constellations for IoT applications, where data may be generated by application protocols developed ad hoc for this kind of traffic, such as MQTT and CoAP .…”

Section: Future Challengesmentioning

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Small satellites and CubeSats: Survey of structures, architectures, and protocols

Davoli

Kourogiorgas

Marchese

et al. 2018

Satell Commun Network

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Summary The space environment is still challenging but is becoming more and more attractive for an increasing number of entities. In the second half of the 20th century, a huge amount of funds was required to build satellites and gain access to space. Nowadays, it is no longer so. The advancement of technologies allows producing very small hardware components able to survive the strict conditions of the outer space. Consequently, small satellites can be designed for a wide set of missions keeping low design times, production costs, and deployment costs. One widely used type of small satellite is the CubeSat, whose different aspects are surveyed in the following: mission goals, hardware subsystems and components, possible network topologies, channel models, and suitable communication protocols. We also show some future challenges related to the employment of CubeSat networks.

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Section: Future Challengesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Small satellites and CubeSats: Survey of structures, architectures, and protocols

Davoli

Kourogiorgas

Marchese

et al. 2018

Satell Commun Network

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“…Starting from the architecture that has been previously defined, an Alert Messaging System which is able to efficiently deliver alert messages over the incident area, has been designed and developed: the building blocks of the broadcast architecture and their integration have been introduced in [24], [25]. In the following subsections the implemented Alert Messaging System is described, providing an overview of the experimental activity carried out in the framework of the D-SAT Mission.…”

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Flexible cubesat-based system for data broadcasting

Jayousi

Morosi

Ronga³

et al. 2018

IEEE Aerosp. Electron. Syst. Mag.

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Effective answers to the major problems in society can be achieved by resorting to the integration of telecommunication platforms, heterogeneous systems of localization, and sensing capabilities and intelligent objects [1]. Particularly, the pursuit of long term technological solutions has to be made with the support of a revolutionary multidisciplinary approach, especially in the areas of transport, smart environments, quality of life, security, etc.As a result, new and more intelligent services will become available, allowing the realization of smart contexts for what concerns home, building, cities, work-places, and implementing new concepts as ambient intelligence, ambient assistant living, ubiquitous computing, context awareness, and many more. This pervasive communication ecosystem will solve many, if not most, problems in our life, by increasing security and safety perception and improving interaction and conditions of activities; information and communications technologies will be a pillar of this society evolution by providing a complex net of information exchanges and exploiting the big data that are involved in the procedures [2].Moreover, the satellite segment will contribute significantly to the evolution of the services by means of the synergistic use of communication, positioning, and monitoring techniques: this objective will be realized by means of meshed heterogeneous architectures [2] that can afford remarkable systems and networks performance. At the same time, some of the envisaged future services such as the global tracking, monitoring, and maintaining of some specific assets or contexts don't mandatorily request the implementation of classic wireless or satellite communication systems which are subject to coverage and cost limitations; conversely, the uprising Machine-to-Machine (M2M) and Internet of Things paradigms seem to be more appropriate in such scenarios where a global packet connectivity has to be afforded in order to permit the exchange of information between the network and the ultimate users but the requirements in terms of data-rate and latency are not stringent [3], [4].On the other hand, this strategy can be successful if some operating conditions and key factors can be granted; particularly, the following conditions are compelling:C this strategy has to be general, i.e., a very large set of future services has to rely on it, even if their requirements are rather diversified and even divergent;C the communications, both within the system and between the system and the external world, will have to be highly efficient and to deliver all the necessary information in due time, where needed, with required quality of service (QoS) and energy consumption.Among the systems which allow the achievement of both of these goals, the new class of "SmallSats" also affords the reduction of the implementation costs and the increase of system availability because of their recent exponential growth [5], [6], [7]. As a result, the exploitation of SmallSats solutions, such as the CubeSat, as a b...

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