Prospects for the Application of the Global High-speed, Low Latency Broadband Satellite Internet in the Field of Road Transport

Author(s):  
Anatoliy Soltus ◽  
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Maksym Rud ◽  

The article examines the problems of navigation and communication with the use of satellite technologies in road transport in the context of the growth of globalization processes in the world economy and the transformations of freight transport technologies caused by a large-scale transition to transport with zero emissions and the development of unmanned vehicles. The paper discusses the principles of building a global high-speed broadband satellite Internet with low latency. Potential capabilities of technologies such as digital antenna arrays and laser communication channels used in such systems are analyzed. Also considered are the existing and potential problems, both technical with electromagnetic compatibility with existing satellite communication systems and between systems under construction or planning, and legal caused by changes in the principles of information transfer at the interstate level. The main players in the emerging market of high-speed satellite communications are considered and the parameters of the systems declared by them are described. The comparison of the current state of building satellite constellations of individual projects is carried out and the ability to implement the announced plans by individual companies is analyzed. The disadvantages that create obstacles for the introduction of high-speed satellite communications in road transport at the moment and the directions of their overcoming are highlighted. Considering the potential of satellite Internet systems, the current state of construction, as well as existing technical and legal restrictions, the introduction of reliable satellite communications will significantly speed up the transition to autonomous unmanned vehicles. In this regard, the most successful opportunities for the new communication technology will be able to realize the transport companies, which will simultaneously update the fleet of vehicles towards zero emissions and with unmanned technologies.

Author(s):  
Teodor Narytnik ◽  
Vladimir Saiko

The technical aspects of the main promising projects in the segments of medium and low-orbit satellite communication systems are considered, as well as the project of the domestic low-orbit information and telecommunications system using the terahertz range, which is based on the use of satellite platforms of the micro- and nanosatellite class and the distribution of functional blocks of complex satellite payloads more high-end on multiple functionally related satellites. The proposed system of low-orbit satellite communications represents the groupings of low-orbit spacecraft (LEO-system) with the architecture of a "distributed satellite", which include the groupings of the root (leading) satellites and satellite repeaters (slaves). Root satellites are interconnected in a ring network by high-speed links between the satellites. The geometric size of the “distributed satellite” is the area around the root satellite with a radius of about 1 km. The combination of beams, which are formed by the repeater satellites, make up the service area of the LEO system. The requirements for the integrated service area of the LEO system (geographical service area) determine the requirements for the number of distributed satellites in the system as a whole. In the proposed system to reduce mutual interference between the grouping of the root (leading) satellites and repeater satellites (slaves) and, accordingly, minimizing distortions of the information signal when implementing inter-satellite communication, this line (radio channel) was created in an unlicensed frequency (e.g., in the terahertz 140 GHz) range. In addition, it additionally allows you to minimize the size of the antennas of such a broadband channel and simplify the operation of these satellite systems.


2017 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 301-312 ◽  
Author(s):  
Valentin Fedosov ◽  
Andrey Legin ◽  
Anna Lomakina

Trends in the modern world increasingly lead to the growing popularity of wireless technologies. This is possible due to the rapid development of mobile communications, the Internet gaining high popularity, using wireless networks at enterprises, offices, buildings, etc. It requires advanced network technologies with high throughput capacity to meet the needs of users. To date, a popular destination is the development of spatial signal processing techniques allowing to increase spatial bandwidth of communication channels. The most popular method is spatial coding MIMO to increase data transmission speed which is carried out due to several spatial streams emitted by several antennas. Another advantage of this technology is the bandwidth increase to be achieved without expanding the specified frequency range. Spatial coding methods are even more attractive due to a limited frequency resource. Currently, there is an increasing use of wireless communications (for example, WiFi and WiMAX) in information transmission networks. One of the main problems of evolving wireless systems is the need to increase bandwidth and improve the quality of service (reducing the error probability). Bandwidth can be increased by expanding the bandwidth or increasing the radiated power. Nevertheless, the application of these methods has some drawbacks, due to the requirements of biological protection and electromagnetic compatibility, the increase of power and the expansion of the frequency band is limited. This problem is especially relevant in mobile (cellular) communication systems and wireless networks operating in difficult signal propagation conditions. One of the most effective ways to solve this problem is to use adaptive antenna arrays with weakly correlated antenna elements. Communication systems using such antennas are called MIMO systems (Multiple Input Multiple Output multiple input - multiple outputs). At the moment, existing MIMO-idea implementations do not always noticeably accelerate traffic at short distances from the access point, but, they are very effective at long distances. The MIMO principle allows reducing the number of errors in radio data interchange (BER) without reducing the transmission rate under conditions of multiple signal re-reflections. The work aims at developing an adaptive space-time signal algorithm for a wireless data transmission system designed to improve the efficiency of this system, as well as to study the efficiency of the algorithm to minimizing the error bit probability and maximizing the channel capacity.


Author(s):  
Ю.Г. Пастернак ◽  
В.А. Пендюрин ◽  
К.С. Сафонов

Решение задачи связи в Арктике, а также в тундре, в тайге, в лесу, в море, на полях возможно только с использованием мобильных систем спутниковой связи. ФГУП «Космическая связь» (г. Москва) располагает группировкой спутников, которая постоянно расширяется. Для надежной связи в Арктике и в северных широтах, помимо геостационарных спутников, запущены спутники, движущиеся по высокоорбитальным траекториям. Для переключения со спутника на спутник, входящий в зону видимости абонента, необходимо использовать антенные решетки. Проблема заключается в том, что в настоящее время отсутствуют мобильные терминалы высокоскоростной спутниковой связи, а стоимость зарубежных аналогов препятствует широкому их использованию (достигает 50 тысяч долларов). Обычно радиолокационная связь (РЛС) с фазированной антенной решеткой используется для наблюдения за тысячами угловых точек, для отслеживания сотни целей. Такие требования могут быть выполнены только путем сканирования луча в пространстве в течение микросекунды. Ясно, что необходимо электронное управление лучом, поскольку механически вращать антенну не представляется возможным. Лишь некоторая часть вышеуказанных проблем будет затрагиваться в этой статье, ниже будут представлены электронная модель антенной решетки и её математическая модель The solution of the communication problem in the Arctic, as well as in the tundra, in the taiga, in the forest, in the sea, in the fields is possible only with the use of mobile satellite communication systems. FSUE "Space Communications" (Moscow) has a constantly expanding group of satellites. For reliable communication in the Arctic and Northern latitudes, in addition to geostationary satellites, satellites moving along high-orbit trajectories were launched. To switch from one satellite to the other included in the subscriber's visibility area, it is necessary to use antenna arrays. The problem is that currently there are no mobile terminals for high-speed satellite communication, and the cost of foreign analogues prevents their widespread use (up to 50 thousand dollars). Typically, a phased array radar is used to track thousands of corner points to track hundreds of targets. Such requirements can only be met by scanning the beam in space for a microsecond. It is clear, that electronic beam control is necessary since it is not possible to mechanically rotate the antenna. Only some of the above problems will be touched upon in this article. An electronic model of the antenna array and its mathematical model is presented


2020 ◽  
Vol 79 (5) ◽  
pp. 276-281
Author(s):  
B. M. Lapidus

In the article, the ideas for the development of unmanned freight vehicles and the construction of high-speed railways are transformed into an innovative resource-efficient and high-tech solution — the creation of an Intelligent Multimodal Transport System of Russia, and the development of projects and structures for unmanned vehicle freight traffic — into the “Intelligent Container Chain” project. The proposals put forward are based on an analysis of the potential of the Russian railways and its implications for the spatial development of the Russian Federation. The trends in the development of unmanned vehicles are analyzed and it is concluded that its implementation in Russia will require the construction of specialized road, energy and digital infrastructure with the appropriate allocation of land allocation and supply of energy, communications and other technological communications. The need to search for new scientific, technological and organizational solutions is shown to achieve synergy between the demand for container road transport and the infrastructural and technological capabilities available in the railway transport system. As such a decision, the expediency of developing a new Intelligent Multimodal Transport System under the auspices of the Russian Railways was substantiated. Priority directions for the development of this system, as well as technical and investment solutions and scientific and technological tasks necessary for its implementation, have been determined. At the same time, questions have been formulated that require scientific study. The advantages of the proposed system for increasing the efficiency of using the transport space and developing a breakthrough competitive infrastructure business of the Russian Railways are disclosed. The prospect of the formation on this basis of unique high-tech groundwork is shown, which makes it possible to realize the potential of Russian science and the transport complex and has a high export potential.


Author(s):  
Marina Aguado ◽  
Oscar Onandi ◽  
Eduardo Jacob ◽  
Christian Pinedo ◽  
Purificacion Saiz ◽  
...  

The recent progresses in mobile telecommunications technologies have allowed railway telecommunications technology to go a step forward, and, in the same way, the railway control systems. In this sense, while the mobile telecommunications technology evolved from the first generation of analogue mobile communication systems to what is known today as B3G (Beyond 3G), the same occurred with the telecommunication systems used in railways, from those based on analogue telecommunications, to the most recent ones based on 2G such as GSM-R or TETRA. Till recently, there was a technological gap regarding high mobility environments, high transmission rate and high interactivity (low latency). However, new emerging telecommunications technologies have shortened this gap significantly. This way, the train control systems will be affected by the availability of telecommunications technologies capable of offering earth-train broadband communications in real time. This article presents a telecommunications network architecture based on WiMAX (Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access) mobile technology (IEEE 802.16e) that fulfils the telecommunications needs in the railway environment. The WiMAX mobile technology most relevant features are: transmission rates up to 30Mbps at 15 km distance; mobility support up to 200km/h; QoS, security, low latency, fast, scalable and cost effective deployment, mainly compared to GSM-R deployment. In the mobile node design of this network telecommunications architecture, the multipath fading effect, and the Doppler effect, present in high speed mobility scenarios, have been taken into account. An improvement in the handoff between BSs, through a neighbouring and predictive mobility algorithm, is included. The architecture proposed supports the functional and system requirements identified in the UIC Project EIRENE (European Integrated Railway Radio Enhanced Network), and demanded to GSM-R technology. Measures on a real testbed and a model developed with the discrete event simulation tool, Opnet, have been employed in this work.


2014 ◽  
Vol 2014 ◽  
pp. 1-20 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jie Sheng ◽  
Sam Chung ◽  
Leo Hansel ◽  
Don McLane ◽  
Joel Morrah ◽  
...  

The Joint Architecture for Unmanned Systems (JAUS) is a communication standard that allows for interoperability between Unmanned Vehicles (UVs). Current research indicates that JAUS-compliant systems do not meet real-time performance guidelines necessary for internal systems in UVs. However, there is a lack of quantitative data illustrating the performance shortcomings of JAUS or clear explanations on what causes these performance issues or comparisons with existing internal communication systems. In this research, we first develop a basic C++ implementation of JAUS and evaluate its performance with quantitative data and compare the results with published performance data of Controller Area Network (CAN) to determine the feasibility of the JAUS standard. Our results indicate that the main reason of JAUS’s poor performance lies in the latency inherent in the hierarchical structure of JAUS and the overhead of User Datagram Protocol (UDP) messages, which has been used with JAUS and is slower than the high-speed CAN. Additionally, UDP has no scheduling mechanism, which makes it virtually impossible to guarantee messages meeting their deadlines. Considering the slow and nondeterministic JAUS communication from subsystems to components, which is JAUS Level 3 compliance, we then propose a solution by bringing Ethernet for Control Automation Technology (EtherCAT) to add speed, deterministic feature, and security. The JAUS-EtherCAT mapping, which we called a JEBridge, is implemented into nodes and components. Both quantitative and qualitative results are provided to show that JEBridge and JAUS Level 3 compliance can bring not only interoperability but also reasonable performance to UVs.


Author(s):  
Volodymyr Saiko ◽  
Teodor Narytnyk ◽  
Valeriy Gladkykh ◽  
Natalia Sivkova

An innovative solution for practical implementation in a LEO system with a "distributed satellite" architecture that can be used to provide low-orbital spacecraft communications with ground stations and users of 5G / IoT satellite services is proposed. The essence of the proposed development in the system of low-orbital satellite communication with FC-architecture is that to reduce the delay in signaling to consumers and the probability of overloading the network into a prospective system of low-orbital satellite communication, which contains artificial Earth satellites, each of which functions in Earth orbit and equipped with onboard repeaters, inter-satellite communications, a network of ground-based communication and control systems for artificial satellites of the Earth, a grouping of low-orbiting space their devices (LEO-system), which includes the grouping of root (leading) satellites and satellites-repeaters (slave), around each root satellite is formed micro-grouping of satellites-repeaters, and functions of the root satellite in the selected orbital phase of the orbital -or micro-satellites that are connected to the annular network by communication lines between satellites, and - functions of satellites-repeaters - kubsat, new is the introduction of a multilevel boundary cloud system, which is a heterogeneity distributed computing cloud structure. At the same time, the boundary clouds of the multilevel system are connected by ultra-high-speed wireless terahertz radio lines and wireless optical communication systems. The technique of estimation of access time in the proposed structure of "fog computing" on the basis of the model of access in "fog computing" with the resolution of collisions of data sources implementing the survey mode is presented.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sulaiman Tariq ◽  
Hussain Al-Rizzo ◽  
Md Nazmul Hasan ◽  
Nijas Kunju ◽  
Said Abushamleh

Due to the rapid development of wireless communication applications, the study of Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) communication systems has gained comprehensive research activities since it can significantly increase the channel capacity and link reliability without sacrificing bandwidth and/or transmitted power levels. Researchers tend to evaluate the performance of their MIMO antenna arrays using various channel modeling tools. These channel models are mainly categorized into either deterministic channels based on Ray Tracing (RT) tools or Stochastic Channel Models (SCM). In this chapter, we compare these two categories in terms of the MIMO channel capacity using a complete description of the antennas at the transmitting and receiving ends in terms of 3D polarimetric radiation patterns and scattering parameters. The performance is evaluated for 5G New Radio (NR) Enhanced Mobile Broadband (eMBB) and Ultra-Reliable Low-Latency Communication (URLLC) services and Vehicle-to-Everything (V2X) systems using state-of-the-art commercial SCM and RT tools to provide information regarding the capabilities and limitations of each approach under different channel environments and the Quality of Experience (QoE) for high data rate and low latency content delivery in the 5G NR sub-6GHz mid-band Frequency Range-1 (FR1) N77/N78 bands.


Author(s):  
Antony Ndolo ◽  
İsmail Hakkı Çavdar

AbstractPower line communication technology is a retrofit alternative technology for last mile information technology. Despite several challenges, such as inadequate standards and electromagnetic compatibility, it is maturing. In this review, we have analysed these obstacles and its current application status.


Sensors ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (18) ◽  
pp. 6054
Author(s):  
João Pedro Pavia ◽  
Vasco Velez ◽  
Renato Ferreira ◽  
Nuno Souto ◽  
Marco Ribeiro ◽  
...  

Millimeter-wave and terahertz technologies have been attracting attention from the wireless research community since they can offer large underutilized bandwidths which can enable the support of ultra-high-speed connections in future wireless communication systems. While the high signal attenuation occurring at these frequencies requires the adoption of very large (or the so-called ultra-massive) antenna arrays, in order to accomplish low complexity and low power consumption, hybrid analog/digital designs must be adopted. In this paper we present a hybrid design algorithm suitable for both mmWave and THz multiuser multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems, which comprises separate computation steps for the digital precoder, analog precoder and multiuser interference mitigation. The design can also incorporate different analog architectures such as phase shifters, switches and inverters, antenna selection and so on. Furthermore, it is also applicable for different structures, namely fully-connected structures, arrays of subarrays (AoSA) and dynamic arrays of subarrays (DAoSA), making it suitable for the support of ultra-massive MIMO (UM-MIMO) in severely hardware constrained THz systems. We will show that, by using the proposed approach, it is possible to achieve good trade-offs between spectral efficiency and simplified implementation, even as the number of users and data streams increases.


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