Index
AAL type 1 (AAL1)
AAL type 2 (AAL2)
AAL type 3/4 (AAL3/4)
AAL type 5 (AAL5)
Access network
Acknowledgement Enhancement
Ad hoc On-Demand Distance Vector (AODV)
Adaptive Coding and Modulation (ACM)
Address Resolution Protocol (ARP)
Advanced Encryption standard (AES)
Advanced Research Project Agency Network (ARPARNET)
Antenna gain
Antenna Pointing Loss
Application layer
Argument of perigee
Asymmetrical Code
Asynchronous Transfer Model (ATM)
ATM Adaptation layers (AAL)
ATM Addressing
ATM cell
ATM layer
ATM On-Board Switch
ATM over Satellite
ATM Performance
ATM protocol stack
ATM Signalling
ATM Switch
Authentication Header (AH)
Autonomous system (AS)
Availability
Azimuth angle
Backwards-Compatible Broadcast Services (BC-BS)
Bandwidth Resource Management
Base-Band Processor (BBP)
Beam-width angle
Best effort service
Binary congestion notification (BCN)
Binary Phase Shift Keying (BPSK)
Bit error probability (BEP)
Bit Error Rate (BER)
Block up converter (BUC)
Board Gateway Protocol (BGP)
Bouquet Association Table (BAT)
Bridge
British Standards Institute (BSI)
Broadband Global Area Networks (BGAN)
Broadband ISDN (B-ISDN)
Broadcast network
Broadcast Services (BS)
Broadcasting satellite services (BSS)
Burst time plans (BTP)
C band
Care-of address (CoA)
Cascading TCP
Cell delay variation (CDV)
Cell delay variation tolerance (CDVT)
Cell error ratio (CER)
Cell Loss Priority (CLP)
Cell loss ratio (CLR)
Cell transfer delay (CTD)
Channel capacity
Circuit switching
Classical IP over ATM
Classless Inter Domain Routing (CIDR)
Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA)
Common channel signalling (CCS)
Community antenna television (CATV)
Concatenated code
Conditional Access (CA)
Conditional Access Table (CAT):
Congestion avoidance
Congestion Control
Connection Admission Control (CAC)
Connection Control Protocol (C2P)
Connection oriented approach
Connection set up
Connectionless approach
Constraint-based Routing LDP
Content distribution
Continuous Rate Assignment (CRA)
Controlled Load Services (CLS)
Convergence sublayer (CS)
Conversational services
Convolutional code
Core-based tree (CBT)
Correction Message Table (CMT)
Cyclic code
DAMA (Demand Assignment Multiple Access)
Data country code (DCC)
Data encryption standard (DES)
Data over cable service interface specification (DOCSIS)
Delay bandwidth product
Demand Assignment
Differentiated service code point (DSCP)
Differentiated Services (DiffServ)
Digital Satellite News Gathering (DSNG)
Digital Signal Level 1 (DS1)
Digital Signal Level 3 (DS3)
Digital storage medium—command and control (DSM-CC)
Digital TV Contribution (DTVC)
Digital Video Broadcasting (DVB)
Digital Video Broadcasting via Satellite (DVB-S)
Direct broadcast satellites (DBS)
Direct to home (DTH)
Distance vector multicast routing protocol (DVMRP)
Distribution services
DVB over satellite
DVB security
DVB-RCS security
DVB-S with Return Channel via Satellite (DVB-RCS)
Dynamic host configuration protocol (DHCP)
E1
E3
Eccentricity (e)
Elastic application
Elastic traffic
Electronic Mail (email)
Elementary stream (ES)
Elevation angle
Elliptical orbit
Encapsulated Security Payload (ESP)
Encapsulation Frame (EFRAME)
Encapsulation Signalling (ESignalling)
End-to-end 2-point IP packet delay variation (IPDV)
End-to-end connection
Enhancement Techniques
Error recovery
European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI)
Event Information Table (EIT)
Explicit forward congestion notification (EFCN)
Exterior gateway routing protocol (EGRP)
Fast recovery
Fast retransmit
File Transfer Protocol (FTP)
First-In-First-Out (FIFO)
Fixed assignment Access
Fixed assignment multiple access (FAMA)
Fixed satellite service (FSS)
Flow control
Forward Error Correction (FEC)
Fractional Brownian Motion (FBM)
Frame Composition Table (FCT)
Free Capacity Assignment (FCA)
Free-space loss
Frequency Division Multiple Access (FDMA)
Frequency division multiplexing (FDM)
Gas Absorption Attenuation
Gatekeeper
Gateway earth station (GES)
Gaussian-Filtered Minimum Shift Keying (GMSK)
General Mark up Language (GML)
Generic Cell Rate Algorithm (GCRA)
Generic flow control (GFC)
Geo-stationary orbit (GEO)
Geo-synchronous orbit
Global network infrastructure (GNI)
Global positioning systems (GPS)
Ground Segment
Group secure association key management protocol (GSAKMP)
Guaranteed Services (GS)
Handover
Header error check (HEC)
Heterogeneous networks
High definition television (HDTV)
High performance amplifier (HPA)
High-level Data Link Control (HDLC)
Highly eccentric earth orbit (HEO)
Human– computer interface (HCI)
Hyper Text Mark Up Language (HTML)
Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP)
Hypothetical reference connection (HRX)
Hypothetical reference digital path (HRDP)
In-Band signalling
Inclination (i)
In-door unit (IDU)
Inelastic traffic
Integrated receiver decoders (IRD)
Integrated Services (IntServ)
Integrated services architecture (ISA)
Interactive Services (IS)
Interior gateway routing protocol (IGRP)
International code designator (ICD)
International data encryption algorithm (IDEA)
International Standards Organisation (ISO)
International Telecommunication Union (ITU)
Internet Assigned Name Authority (IANA)
Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF)
Internet Group management Protocol (IGMP)
Internet integrated service
Internet of Things (IoT)
Internet Protocol (IP) over Satellite
Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6)
Internet Quality of Service (IP QoS)
Internet routing protocol
Internet Security Association Establishment and Key Management Protocol (ISAKMP)
Internet services
Internet traffic
Internetworking
Interruptive mechanisms
Inter-satellite links (ISL)
IP address
IP multicast
IP multicast over satellite
IP multicast routing
IP multicast security
IP Network Performance Objectives
IP over DVB
IP packet error ratio (IPER)
IP packet format
IP packet loss ratio (IPLR)
IP packet severe loss block ratio (IPSLBR)
IP packet transfer delay (IPTD)
IP security (IPsec)
IPv6
K band
Ka band
Kepler's constant
Kepler's first law
Kepler's second law
Kepler's third law
Ku-band
Label Distribution Protocol (LDP)
Label Switched Paths (LSP)
Label Switching Router (LSR)
LAN Emulation
Laws of physics
Layering principle
L-band
Leaky bucket algorithm (LBA)
Linear block code
link layers
Local area networks (LANs)
Local exchange (LEX)
Logical key hierarchy (LKH)
Long Range Dependence (LRD)
Low Density Parity Check (LDPC)
Low earth orbit (LEO)
Low noise block (LNB)
Management station (MS)
Mass of the earth
Maximum gain
Maximum Transfer Unit (MTU)
Mean IP packet transfer delay
Mean objective score (MOS)
Media earth orbit (MEO)
Medium access control (MAC)
Messaging services
Metropolitan area networks (MANs)
Minimum cell rate (MCR)
Mobile satellite service (MSS)
Mobile wireless Ad hoc Networks (MANET)
Modulation technique
Most significant bit (MSB)
Motion Picture Expert Group (MPEG)
MPEG-2
Multi Protocol Encapsulation (MPE)
Multi protocol label switching (MPLS)
Multicast
Multicast Map Table (MMT)
Multi-layer modelling
Multimedia conferencing (MMC)
Multiple access technique
Multi-protocol label switching (MPLS)
Narrowband ISDN (N-ISDN)
Network centric view of satellite network
Network connection
Network Control Centre (NCC)
Network element
Network Information Table (NIT)
Network layers
Network node
Network node interface (NNI)
Network Parameter Control (NPC)
Network performance (NP)
Network security
Network services
Network terminal
Network traffic
Network terminator (NT)
Newton's three laws
Next generation Internet (NGI)
Next Generation Network (NGN)
Nyquist formula
On-board switching (OBS)
Open Shortest Path First (OSPF)
Operation, administration and maintenance (OMA)
Optimized Link State Routing Protocol (OLSR)
Orbit period
Orbital Perturbation
Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplex (OFDM)
OSI/ISO reference model
Out-door unit (UDU)
Out-of-Band signalling
Packet encapsulation
Packet Identifier (PID)
Packet switching
packetised elementary stream (PES)
Pareto distribution model
Payload type (PT)
Peak cell rate (PCR)
Performance objectives
Permanent virtual connection (PVC)
Phase Shift Keying (PSK)
Physical Layer (PL)
PIM dense mode (PIM-DM)
PIM sparse mode (PIM-SM)
Plesiochronous Digital Hierarchy (PDH)
Point-to-Point protocol (PPP)
Presentation layer
Private Key
Private network
produce Interleaving Units (IUs)
Program Association Table (PAT)
Program Identifier (PID)
programme clock references (PCRs)
programme specific information (PSI)
Propagation loss
Protocol centric view of satellite IP network
Protocol hierarchies
Protocol-independent multicast (PIM)
Pseudo Random Binary Sequence (PRBS)
Public key
Public network
Quality of experience (QoE)
Quality of service (QoS)
Quasi Error Free (QEF)
Quaternary PSK (QPSK)
Radio frequency (RF)
Radius of earth
Rain Attenuation
Random Access
Random early detection (RED)
Rate-based Dynamic Capacity (RBDC)
RCS Map Table (RMT)
Reactive Congestion Control
Real time streaming protocol (RTSP)
Real time transport control protocol (RTCP)
Real time transport protocol (RTP)
Reed-Solomon (RS)
Reference configuration
Regenerative Satellite GateWay (RSGW)
Regenerative satellite mesh (RSM)
Repeater
Resource reSerVation Protocol (RSVP)
Retransmission timeout (RTO)
Retrieval services
Return Channel over Satellite (RCS)
Return Channel Satellite Terminal (RCST)
Reverse Address Resolution Protocol (RARP)
Reverse path forwarding (RPF)
Right ascension of the node
Round trip time (RTT)
Router
Routing information protocol (RIP)
RSVP-TE
Satellite ATM Networking Architecture
Satellite centric view of global network
Satellite Constellation
Satellite IP networking
Satellite link characteristics
Satellite master antenna television (SMATV)
Satellite Networking Security
Satellite orbits
Satellite Position Table (SPT)
Satellite services
Satellite terminals
Satellite velocity
S-band
SDH over satellite
Secret Key
Secure Socket Layer (SSL)
Segmentation and reassembly (SAR)
Selective Acknowledgement (SACK)
Semi-major axis
Service Classes
Service Description Table (SDT)
Service information (SI)
Service level agreement (SLA)
Session announcement protocol (SAP)
Session description protocol (SDP)
Session Directory Service (SDS)
Session Initiation Protocol (SIP)
Session layer
Shannon power limit
Shannon theorem
Signal processing (DSP)
Signalling
Signal-to-noise ratio (S/N)
Single frequency network (SFN)
Single-sideband (SSB)
Slow start
Very small aperture terminal (VSAT)
Space segment
Space switching
Split TCP
Spread Spectrum Multiple Access (SSMA)
Streaming application
Superframe Composition Table (SCT)
Sustained cell rate (SCR)
Switched virtual connection (SVC)
Symmetrical Code
Synchronous Digital Hierarchy (SDH)
Synchronous Optical Network (SONET)
TCP Performance analysis
TCP Spoofing
Terminal Burst Time Plan (TBTP)
Terminal Information Message (TIM)
Time and Date Table (TDT)
Time Division Multiple Access (TDMA)
Time division multiplexing (TDM)
Time switching
Time to live (TTL)
Time-slot Composition Table (TCT)
Tracking, telemetry and telecommand (TT&T)
Traffic descriptors
Traffic Engineering
Traffic modelling
Transit network
Transmission Control Protocol (TCP)
Transmission frequency bands
Transmission hierarchies
Transmission multiplexing hierarchy
Transmission Parameter Signalling (TPS)
Transparent satellite star (TSS)
Transport layer
Transport stream (TS)
Trellis coding
Trunk exchange (TEX)
Turbo code
TV receiving only antenna (TVRO)
Type of service (ToS)
UHF
Uniform Resource Locator (URL)
Universal Gravity Constant (G)
Usage Parameter Control (UPC)
User datagram protocol (UDP)
User network interface (UNI)
Van Allen radiation belts
Variable Coding and Modulation (VCM)
VC and VP Switch
Video on demand (VoD)
Video traffic
virtual channel identifier (VCI)
Virtual path identifier (VPI)
Virtual Private Network (VPN)
Virtual scheduling algorithm (VSA)
Voice over Internet protocol (VoIP)
Voice over IP
voice traffic
Volume-based Dynamic Capacity (VBDC)
VP Switch
Web Caching
wide area networks (WANs)
World Wide Web (WWW)
WWW traffic
X band