Specialist Task Force 344:
Broadband Satellite Multimedia: Management and Control interworking and
interoperability
Who we are:
Team Leader: Robert Mort
Team Members: Matteo Berioli
Haitham Cruickshank
What we do:
The STF will produce the following reports and standards:
PHASE 1
-
DTS/SES-00289: Management Functional Architecture
- DTS/SES-00290: Performance Parameters
PHASE 2
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DTS/SES-00291: PIM-SM Adaptation
- DTS/SES-00292: Performance Management at the SI-SAP
- DTS/SES-00293: Performance Management MIB
- DTR/SES-00294: Performance Enhancing Proxies (PEPs)
The following draft documents are available for review
and your inputs and comments are welcome:
Read our
Terms of Reference
Why we do it:
Satellite technology is an important delivery platform for diverse services
such as interactive TV and mobile, high-speed internet access. Satellite
services are particularly useful for rural and outlying regions, where other
systems are difficult to deploy on a commercial basis. They therefore can play a
crucial role in ensuring that all Europeans can access high quality information
services.
It is important that satellite networks offer IP network services comparable
to and competitive with terrestrial services, in particular with regard to
support for multimedia applications and general interoperability of IP-services.
These objectives can only be achieved if the development of satellite standards
keeps pace with the rapid evolution of the interoperability for terrestrial IP
network standards. A set of such open standards will enable service providers to
identify and support common service platforms, and manufacturers to design
competitive solutions.
The work is a further development of the ETSI TC SES/WG-BSM functional
architecture which is being used as the basis for a family of IP-related
satellite standards. This work to date has resulted in a new functional
architecture that separates the higher layer IP-based network services from the
lower layer satellite-dependent radio interface. This approach is based on the
3G network architecture (which separates the functions into "Access Stratum" and
"Non-Access Stratum"). The BSM architecture is now being used to define a set of
IP interworking standards that are optimised for satellite networks, but
independent of any specific system and hence applicable to all satellite
systems.
The further development of the BSM architecture, in particular extending this
formal separation between the upper and lower layers into new technical areas,
together with the overall focus on IP-based networks, is applicable to the
Framework Directive 2002/21/EC (A common regulatory framework for electronic
communication networks and services) and also takes account of the move to Next
Generation Networks.
The work is also designed to meet the Objectives of the EU i2010 strategy, in
particular the continuation of the eEurope2005 objectives of Broadband and
e-Inclusion. The standards are designed to be used to encourage the provision of
high bandwidth satellite communications and to ensure that these high bandwidth
communications can be used to provide the full range of digital information
services such as eCall, eGovernment, eHealth and e-Learning.
The following questionnaires have been issued to encourage feedback on the work,
and further replies are welcome:
Time plan for the work:
We intend to complete our work by end December 2009.
How to contact us:
If you would like more information, please contact the STF Leader on:
mort.robert@gmail.com
Note: this information is based upon STF working assumptions.
The views expressed do not necessarily represent the position of ETSI in this
context.
Last updated: 2013-04-13 17:31:00