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Abstract
Session 2 - IP over Satellite and Performance
Speaker: Sastri Kota, Technical Consultant, Loral Skynet
Abstract
Many of the current and planned broadband satellite systems support applications such as high-speed
Internet access, streaming, and multicasting, via IP transmissions. The success of these systems
depends on the performance, availability, and user & application Quality of Service levels. This
presentation provides a status report on the ITU-T SG 4B activities on satellite IP matters, Question 263/4.
A brief discussion of satellite link impairments is included. Significant results regarding TCP enhancements
for satellite links, TCP splitting and TCP/UDP protocol performances are presented. A need for liaison with
other standard organizations is pointed out.
Biography
Sastri Kota is a technical consultant with Loral Skynet in areas of network architectures and protocols,
for new business development and International standards and regulatory matters. Mr. Kota has several years
of experience in military and commercial network systems design, analysis and held technical and management
positions at Lockheed Martin, SRI International, Ford Aerospace, XEROX, The MITRE and Computer Sciences Corp.
Currently, he is the US Chair for the ITU-R Working Party 4B and Rapporteur for the ITU-R WP 4B FSS Ka-band
performance. He was the Chair for the Wireless ATM working group of the ATM Forum.
Mr. Kota made significant contributions in satellite ATM and IP networks, QoS, traffic management, and DAMA.
He has published over 90 technical papers in journals and conference proceedings. He has been the guest editor
of feature topics – Broadband Satellite Networks, for IEEE Communications. He is the guest editor of
International Journal of Satellite Communications on Satellite IP QoS. He is an Associate Fellow of the AIAA,
Senior Member of the IEEE and Member of the ACM. |
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