2013 JOINT CONFERENCE
October 14-17, 2013
Florence, Italy
Program
WELCOME
On behalf of the Organizing Committees we welcome you to the
Joint Conference 2013 in Florence.
We hope you will find this Conference an enlightening
and pleasant experience.
Contents
Committees
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Joint Conference Synopsis
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Acknowledgments - Sponsors
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Colloquium Synopsis
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The 11th BroadSky Workshop
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Conference Program Overview
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Social Events
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Registration Information
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Panel Sessions
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Conference Program
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General Information
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COMMITTEES
19TH KA AND BROADBAND COMMUNICATIONS, NAVIGATION AND EARTH
OBSERVATION CONFERENCE
Conference General Chair
Frank Gargione, Satellite Systems Consultant, USA
Steering & Organizing Committee
Frank Gargione (Chair), Satellite Systems Consultant, USA
Franco Marconicchio, Space Systems Consultant, Italy
Clotilde Canepa Fertini, FGM Events Consultant, Italy
Riccardo De Gaudenzi, ESA-European Space Agency, The Netherlands
Titti Cenami, Telespazio, Italy
Technical Committee
Frank Gargione (Co-chair), Satellite Systems Consultant, USA
Franco Marconicchio (Co-chair),Space Consultant, Italy
Enrico Saggese (Co-chair), ASI - Italian Space Agency, Italy
Roberto J. Acosta, NASA Glenn Research Center, USA
Mario A. Blanco, MITRE Corp., USA
Marco Brancati, Telespazio, Italy
Michel Bousquet, ISAE, France
Thomas Butash, Innovative Aerospace IS, USA
Mario Caron, CRC - Communications Research Centre, Canada
Hampton C. Chan, SSL, USA
Jean-Christophe Cayrou, Thales Alenia Space, France
Carlo Elia, ESA, The Netherlands
Massimo Di Lazzaro, Thales Alenia Space, Italy
Hector Fenech, Eutelsat, France
Barry Geldzahler, NASA Headquarters, USA
Richard T. Gedney, ECC / ViaSat, USA
Naoto Kadowaki, NICT, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology
Nafiz Karabudak, Lockheed Martin Corp., USA
Allen Katz, The College of New Jersey / Linearizer Technology, Inc. USA
Cosimo La Rocca, Finmeccanica, Italy
Fabio Lattanzi, SES, Luxembourg
Marco Lisi, ESA/ESTEC, The Netherlands
Giacinto Losquadro, Thales Alenia Space, Italy
Arduino Patacchini, Eutelsat, France
Bruno Perrot, SES GLOBAL, Luxembourg
Antonio Vernucci, Space Engineering, Italy
11TH BROADSKY WORKSHOP
Workshop Chair
Hajime Fukuchi, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Japan
Vice Chair
Naoto Kadowaki, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Japan
Technical Committee
Naoko Yoshimura, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Japan
Yoshihisa Takayama, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Japan
Morio Toyoshima, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Japan
Frank Gargione, Satellite Systems Consultant, USA
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COMMITTEES
31TH AIAA INTERNATIONAL COMMUNICATIONS SATELLITE SYSTEMS
CONFERENCE (ICSSC 2013)
Executive Committee
Executive General Chair: Magali Vaissiere, ESA
General Chair: Riccardo De Gaudenzi, ESA
Secretary: Dietmar Schmitt, ESA
Technical Program Committee
Piero Angeletti, ESA/ESTEC, The Netherlands
Jean-Pierre Choffray, SES, Luxembourg
Francesc Coromina Pi, ESA/ESTEC, The Netherlands
Hector Fenech, Eutelsat, France
Michele Le Saux, ESA/ESTEC, The Netherlands
Christoph Ernst, ESA/ESTEC, The Netherlands
Eyal Trachtman, Inmarsat, United Kingdom
Regional Chairs
Europe: Michel Bousquet, ISAE, France
North America: Mario Caron, CRC, Canada
Asia: Naoto Kadowaki, NICT, Japan
Track Chairs
Nader Alagha, ESA/ESTEC, The Netherlands
Kul Bhasin, NASA Glenn Research Center, USA
Hampton C. Chan, SSL, USA
Sebastien Clausse, Thales Alenia Space, Spain
Mario Cosmo, ASI, Italy
Massimo Crisci, ESA/ESTEC, The Netherlands
Mustafa Eroz, Hughes Network Systems, USA
Hajime Fukuchi, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Japan
Steve Gardner, ViaSat, USA
Peter Garland, MDA, Canada
Alberto Ginesi, ESA/ESTEC, The Netherlands
Christoph Guenther, DLR/IKN, Germany
Greg Healy, COM DEV International, Canada
James Hinds, Astrium, United Kingdom
Christoph Laporte, CNES, France
Didier Le Boulch, Thales Alenia Space, France
Xavier Lobao, ESA/ESTEC, The Netherlands
John Lodge, CRC, Canada
Arunas Macikunas, exactEarth, Canada
Nathalie Metzger, Astrium, France
Fabrizio Montauti, L-3 Communications, USA
Alberto Morello, RAI Research Centre, Italy
Nghia Pham, Eutelsat, France
David Rogers, CRC, Canada
Peter Takats, MDA, Canada
Tony Stajcer, COM DEV International, Canada
Andrea Suriani, Thales Alenia Space, Italy
Laurent Thomasson, Astrium, France
Paul Thompson, University of Surrey
Philippe Voisin, Thales Alenia Space, France
Colloquium Chairs
Xavier Lobao, ESA/ESTEC, The Netherlands
Alberto Ginesi, ESA/ESTEC, The Netherlands
ORGANIZING & STEERING COMMITTEES SECRETARIAT
Clotilde Canepa Fertini, FGM Events Consultant, Italy
e-mail: [email protected]
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
The 2013 Joint Conference is organized by:
FGM Events LLC
239 Glenn Avenue
Lawrenceville, NJ 08640, USA
Ph.: +1 609 883 4778
e-mail: [email protected] | [email protected]
with the technical support of
The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)
under the auspice of
ASI – Italian Space Agency, Italy
CRC – Communications Research Centre, Canada
DLR – German Aerospace Center, Germany
ESA – European Space Agency, The Netherlands
NASA – National Aeronautics & Space Administration, USA
NICT – National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Japan
sponsored by
ASI – Italian Space Agency, Italy
ASTRIUM, Germany
CPI SatCom, USA
ESA – European Space Agency, The Netherlands
Eutelsat Broadband, France
MDA, Canada
NICT – National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Japan
Space Engineering, Italy
SSL, USA
Telespazio, Italy
Thales Alenia Space, Italy
http://www.kaconf.org
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2013 JOINT CONFERENCE SYNOPSIS
Satellites Systems Serving the Needs for the 21th Century
The 19th Ka and Broadband Communications, Navigation and Earth Observation Conference and the 31st AIAA International Communications Satellite Systems Conference (ICSSC), the two most influential technical conferences on satellite systems, will be held jointly in Florence, Italy,
at the Hilton Metropole Hotel on October 14-17, 2013.
The theme of the Joint Conference “Satellite systems to Serve the Needs of the 21st Century” emphasizes the
vital role of satellites in providing information, entertainment, weather forecasting, travel directions and communications for all of us. For governments, satellites provide key functions for civil and military needs, security
and public safety, search and rescue operations, tracking of moving vehicles on land and at sea, environmental
sensing and monitoring, and disaster assistance. Satellites are the only means of achieving a better understanding of our universe and in particular of our galaxy. This search calls for unprecedented communication
capacity, now provided by Ka-band satellites. Improving on the above capabilities and providing new ways to
serve mankind are challenges the satellite community must face.
This Joint Conference explores these challenges, proposes and discusses solutions, and provides a forum for the
exploration of the economic, marketing, technical and regulatory issues affecting these new and planned services.
Technical Topics
Papers have been solicited for both Conferences in the following areas:
Telecommunications Satellites - Fixed, Mobile, Broadcast, Dual Use, Hybrid
Earth Observation Satellites
• Systems & Payloads
• Systems & Payloads
• Bus technologies
• Components
• Propagation/Fade Mitigation
• Applications
• Components
• Ground Systems & Equipments
• Applications
• Protocols
Special Topics
• Ground Systems & Equipment
• Market Assessment
• Risk Management
Navigation Satellites
• Legal and Insurance Issues
• Systems & Payloads
• Components
• Applications
• Ground Terminals
• Satellite/Terrestrial Hybrid Systems
COLLOQUIUM SYNOPSIS
The theme of the Colloquium is Satellite Services for Global Mobility.
Satellite systems are inherently effective means to deliver ubiquitous services. A large variety of services and
applications can be delivered by satellites from UHF to Ka frequencies with a global mobility as central paradigm. Mobile broadband and narrowband interactive and broadcasting services to consumers and professional
platforms are ever evolving in terms of coverage, performance and cost-effectiveness, thus representing a valid
complementary service with respect to terrestrial networks.
A progressive move towards the integration between MSS and FSS is also taking place. Emerging services
covering safety, security and localization show a promising growth.
Such services include, for example, satellite communication link to UAVs, Air Traffic Management, ADS-B, AIS
as well possible new VHF communication channels to ships.
The Colloquium targets both current and future systems and technologies with emphasis on user/market perspectives. In this respect, views on growth opportunities, the competitive environment and the impact on current
and upcoming service and technology innovations will be addressed.
The Colloquium is held just prior to the Joint Conference on Monday, October 14, 2013 in the Leonardo room
and requires separate registration.
The Colloquium is organized by the Colloquium Co-Chairs: Xavier Lobao and Alberto Ginesi, ESA/ESTEC,
The Netherlands.
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THE 11th BROADSKY WORKSHOP
Small Satellites, Big Possibilities
The Workshop presents ongoing activities and technologies, and looks to the future, by identifying the latest
research and development programs on small satellite technologies and their applications.
The Workshop is organized by NICT - National Institute of Information and Communications Technology of
Japan.
It is held on Tuesday, October 15, in the Caravaggio Room and does not need a separate registration. All the
presentations are published in a booklet.
PANEL SESSIONS
Panel 1: Trends in Communications Satellite Architectures and Broadband Applications (Ka Band
and up)
Chair: Peter Garland, MDA Corp., Canada
This panel will bring together experts that cover a wide range of Ka Band broadband applications. Each panel
member will be asked to concentrate on a specific application area. They will describe what is on-going in the
industry and project advances in the future, in supporting technologies, system architectures and applications.
This includes potential uses of even higher frequency bands. There will be an opportunity at the end to probe
the panel on their opinions on a full range of applications under the panel title.
Panelists:
• Martin Agnew, Astrium Services, United Kingdom
Data Relay Trends, Optical Links (both ISLs and Space to Ground)
• Tom Eidenschink, VP, Business Development, Satellite Broadband Systems, Viasat, USA
Broadband, Consumer and SOTM, Viasat 2 and Beyond
• Steven Osman, VP Satellite Systems, SES, Luxembourg
Impacts of Ka Band and up on Future Broadcast/Narrowcast Applications
• Hector Fenech, Director of Future Satellite Systems, Eutelsat, France,
Ka-Band Enlarging the Spectrum of Applications
• Domenico Mignolo, ESA, The Netherlands
The Race Towards A Terabit/s Satellite: System and Technology Challenges.
Panel 2: Galileo Towards Services Exploitation
Chair: Marco Lisi, GNSS Services Engineering Manager, ESA, The Netherlands, and Special Advisor of the
European Commission
The Galileo global navigation satellite system, joint initiative by the European Union and the European Space
Agency, is one of the most ambitious and technologically advanced service-oriented systems being developed
in Europe. With four satellites in space, the Galileo project is completing the In-Orbit Validation (IOV) phase,
aimed at qualifying the Galileo space, ground and user segments through extensive in-orbit/on-ground tests
and operations of a core satellite constellation and of the associated ground segment. Full operations and services will commence when all the satellites have been deployed. However, after a political decision of the European Commission, Galileo will start delivering Early Services as from the end of 2014. The panel will present,
through the viewpoint of experts from different sectors, the potential impact of Early Services on products and
applications.
Panelists:
• Philippe Bertrand, Chief Engineer and GNSS Manager, French Ministry of Defense (DGA), France
• Gian Gherardo Calini, Head of Market Development, GSA, Belgium
• Christoph Günther, Director of Institute of Communication and Navigation, DLR, Germany
• Guenter Hein, Head of Galileo Operations and Evolution, ESA, The Netherlands
• Cosimo La Rocca, ASI-Italian Space Agency, Italy
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Panel 3: Satellite R&D Status, Trends and Perspectives
Chair: Massimo C. Comparini, Telespazio, Italy
Space Telecommunication in the past few years has entered an interesting new phase. Broadband communication by satellite, at Ka band and lower frequencies, is today a key offer in both services and manufacturing,
and second generation LEO constellations have proved the sustainability of a solid business plan even with increased competitive pressure. The European Space Companies are positioning themselves in this evolutionary
phase as well as in meeting the competitive race, but the future road map is challenging and tough. The Research and Development pipeline, secured by joint funding from the National Space Agencies and ESA with its
specific programs (ARTES, GSTP, TRP), supported in the past interesting developments on key enabling technologies and on products for both payload and platform. Flexible solutions will mature in a few years: both
small and large GEO, as well as low cost, platforms have been the target of specific developments and Alphabus
will be launched in the coming weeks. All these developments make the offer of European space systems complete, attractive and competitive. The round table will discuss the status, the trends and future perspectives
with managers of key space companies and ESA, in order to reflect how to best shape the path ahead to maintain high and to further develop the capabilities of the European Space Industry
Panelists:
• Philippe Voisin, Thales Alenia Space, France
• Fritz Merkel, OHB, Germany
• Glyn Thomas, Astrium, France
• Antonio Ceccarelli, Telespazio, Italy
• Riccardo De Gaudenzi, ESA, The Netherlands
About Chairs and Panelists
Peter Garland - Director Advanced Programs (MDA Corporation), Canada
Peter has worked on Satellite Communications in Canada for over 30 Years. During that time he has been involved in nearly every program where the state of art was moved forward. In the mid nineties he led studies
that eventually resulted in the flight of an advanced Ka Band digital payload on the ANIK F2 satellite. Later on,
he led a team that was instrumental in developing and promoting the DVB-RCS standard as the first worldwide
standard for two way satellite communications.
Peter’s career in Communications started as an apprentice in a Short Wave Transmitting station in his native
United Kingdom. As a young man he was also privileged to be part of early Satellite Communications activities
at Goonhilly Radio station in the West of England. His only time away from Communications was a spell of
seven years spent at the University of Birmingham (UK) designing payloads for X Ray Astronomy missions, including on one of the first Space Shuttle flights. Peter currently leads Advanced Programs within MDA Satellite
Systems (Montreal).
Martin Agnew - Astrium Services, United Kingdom
Martin Agnew graduated in Physics from Imperial College, London, in 1984 specializing in semiconductor device
physics and electronics. He subsequently worked for Standard Telecommunications Laboratories for eight years
in research into developing GaAs MESFET based ASIC technology clocking at up to 1GHz (on-wafer), and
InP/InGaAs HEMT based Opto-Electronic IC’s, - through EC ESPRIT, and other, development funding programs
with the results presented at international conferences. Through this work Martin Agnew developed an expertise
in RF & Microwave engineering, as a result of which he made a career move into the emerging wireless mobile
communications industry at Bell Northern Research, Wireless Technology Laboratories. In the next eight years,
Martin developed technologies which resulted in leading-edge products for a range of Military and Commercial
applications including wideband surveillance receivers, RF ASICs, and digital modems. Through this work
Martin developed a number of World Firsts: the first ATM over Coax Digital Cable-Modem which helped to develop today’s DOCSIS standard, the first plastic packed RF chipset at 3.5GHz and fully Surface-mount high
power SDH/SONET Digital Microwave Line-of-sight systems. Martin registered as a Chartered Engineer, and
member of FEANI. In 2000, Martin returned to the optical communications industry as a Senior Manager responsible for optical long-haul product development. In this position he successfully developed a Dual 2.5Gbps
SDH/SONET Optical Long Haul Wavelength Translator product, and demonstrated the technical feasibility of
a G-709 Standards Compliant 10.7Gbps Digital Wrapper FEC, mid-size all Photonic Cross-Connect switches
& Add/Drop Multiplexers. In 2003 Martin joined the Advanced Technology Centre of BAE-Systems where he
developed miniaturization/integration technologies applied to Antenna, RF/MMIC, Opto-Electronic and signal
processing for Aerospace and Defense applications, as well as research into wide band-gap semiconductors,
integrated cooling and nano-structures/devices. This work led to Martin winning a ‘Chairman’s Silver Award for
Innovation’. Through external consultancy to assist Astrium in the development of active receive antenna on
GEO satellites, Martin was headhunted into Paradigm Services (part of EADS Astrium Services) as a Senior
Manager responsible for New Service development. In this position Martin was the Engineering lead responsible
for development and rollout of Paradigm’s High Integrity Telecommunications Service for the UK Cabinet Office
customer serving almost fifty remote local government sites throughout the UK with a hybrid SatCom/terrestrial
network. He is a member of the Astrium Services CTO Engineering Council. Martin was the Chief Engineer on
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the EDRS SpaceDataHighway Phase A feasibility study for ESA, leading to the successful competitive bid to
design, build and operate the service on behalf of the ESA anchor GMES Sentinel 1 & 2 LEO satellites, and
other 3rd Party customers. More recently Martin was appointed EDRS Service Design Authority &Head of Service Creation, and is currently working on the architecture for the 2nd generation of EDRS (to be known as
‘GlobeNet’), as well as lower cost/mass Optical & Ka ISL terminals for LEOs & Airborne platforms.
Thomas Eidenschink - Vice President, Business Development Satellite Broadband Systems ViaSat,
Inc., USA
Mr. Eidenschink is currently Vice President of Business Development for Satellite Broadband Systems. Previously, Mr Eidenschink oversaw the development of the Ka-band baseband system called SurfBeam. This system is one of the most deployed Ka-band broadband systems in the world. Mr. Eidenschink also oversaw software development on a number of internetworking protocols over various ViaSat products. Prior to coming to
ViaSat, Mr. Eidenschink worked on numerous projects in the real-time data communication area interfacing
wide-area network (WAN) protocols to TCP/IP. Mr Eidenschink holds a BS EECS from Rose-Hulman Institute
of Technology, Indiana. Mr Eidenschink holds a number of patents related to broadband networking over satellite
systems.
Steven Osman - Vice President, Satellite Telecommunication Systems SES, USA
Steven Osman is the Vice President of Satellite Telecommunication Systems for SES. Steve has been serving
the Satellite and Media segments for nearly 30 years, and is currently responsible for SES’ Americas region in
developing satellite payload designs and system solutions. In collaboration with other SES departments, develops market focused payload solutions for a variety of applications, including Broadband, Mobility, DTH,
Media & Broadcast services. Prior to joining SES, Mr. Osman spent nearly 9 years with the satellite DTH
provider PrimeStar, the 1st successful DTH service in the US. As Director of Engineering and Operations he
was responsible for technology development of consumer set top boxes and antenna terminals, broadcast operations, satellite payload technologies, and end to end system design and service. Prior to Primestar, Steve
has served over 10 years with the satellite operators RCA Americom and GE Americom, and now with SES,
has held numerous management and leadership roles in technology, systems engineering, operations, sales
engineering, and commercial development. Mr. Osman holds a B.S degree in Electrical Engineering from Rutgers University, College of Engineering.
Hector Fenech - Eutelsat, France
Hector Fenech read Electrical Engineering at the University of Malta until 1978 when the Bachelor degree was
conferred on him. After a short duration of employment in Malta, he then pursued further study at the Philips
International Institute of Technological Studies, Eindhoven, The Netherlands and the Master of Electronic Engineering was conferred to him in 1983. Subsequently he continued to read satellite communications at the
University of Bradford, UK where he completed his Ph.D. and worked as a lecturer until 1987. This was followed
by work at Communications System Research Ltd., Ilkley, UK, which became part of the Communication Systems Division of Ferranti International Signal plc, until 1989 where he was Head of Satellite Communications
Systems Group. He then joined EUTELSAT in the Future System Studies Section where he was involved with
a number of satellites. Later he worked as a Payload Manager within the Satellite Engineering and Procurement
Division in the Technical Department and was involved with ten satellites. In 1999, he became the Head of the
Future Satellite System Group where he is responsible for the definition of communications performance of all
the satellites that Eutelsat procured. In 2012 he became Director of Future Satellite Systems in the Development
and Innovation Department. He has been involved for the communication missions definition and negotiations
of 30 satellite programs. He is the lead author for eight applications of patents. He currently holds the position
of Secretary of Galileo Services. He is a senior member of IEEE.
Domenico Mignolo - ESA, The Netherlands
Domenico Mignolo has joined the European Space Agency in 2002 and he is currently working as telecommunication system engineer in the Telecom and Integrated Application Directorate. He has been technical officer
of several two-way satellite system projects sponsored by ESA and has followed standardization activities. He
initiated the new ARTES 33 program element for Industry generated Public Private Partnership projects. He is
currently the technical officer of the Terabit/s system study, involved in the set-up of future ARTES Telecommunication Programs and focal point of the Ka Band broadband system activities. In the past he has worked for
Alenia Spazio as responsible of two-way satellite user terminals.
Marco Lisi - GNSS Services Engineering Manager, ESA, The Netherlands, and Special Advisor of the
European Commission
Marco Lisi is presently GNSS Services Engineering Manager at the European Space Agency, in the Directorate
of GALILEO Program and Navigation related activities. In this position he is responsible for the engineering
and exploitation of services based on the European navigation infrastructures, Galileo and EGNOS. In October
2012, he was appointed Special Advisor of the European Commission on European space policies. After getting
a “summa cum laude” doctorate in engineering in 1980, he has worked for more than thirty years in the aerospace and telecommunications sectors, covering managerial positions in R&D, engineering and programs,
both in industry and in institutional organizations. Lisi is Fellow or Senior Member of several international professional associations. He holds three international patents (one forth is pending) and authored more than one
hundred and fifty technical papers.
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Philippe Bertrand - Chief Engineer and GNSS manager, Ministry of Defence (DGA), France
Philippe Bertrand is Chief Engineer and GNSS manager within the Delegation Générale de l’Armement (DGA)
which, within the French Ministry of Defence, supports the development of the Public Regulated Service. He
has been involved on GALILEO since 2009 and worked up to mid-2012 at the European Commission, where
he developed the security of the system and defined with the Member States the security requirements which
have been flown down within the whole system and organisations. He was also at this time supporting the European Commission on the whole accreditation process. He was before in charge of a division of 170 people
in the field of Electronic Warfare, Optonic Warfare and Radars in the DGA Information Superiority Technical
Centre.
Gian Gherardo Calini - Head of Market Development, GSA, Belgium
Gian Gherardo Calini took up his post as Head of Market Development at the GSA in December 2006. Prior to
joining the GSA, he held business and management responsibilities in the service and transportation industries.
He built his management experience working for McKinsey, Procter and Gamble, Citibank and in the transportation sector. He held management and business development positions. Mr. Calini has a Master in Economics and Business from La Sapienza University in Rome and a Master in Business Administration from INSEAD in Fontainebleau.
Christoph Günther - Director of Institute of Communication and Navigation, DLR, Germany
Christoph Günther studied theoretical physics at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, Switzerland. He received his diploma in 1979 and completed his PhD in 1984. He worked on research in cryptography,
coding, communication, and information theory with Asea Brown Boveri, Ascom and Ericsson. At Ascom he
also had the responsibility for the development of GSM and GSM/Satellite mobile phones. Since 2003, he is
the Director of the Institute of Communication and Navigation at the German Aerospace Center (DLR), and
since 2004, he is additionally holding the Chair of Communication and Navigation at the Technische Universität
München. His interests are in space and aeronautical communications, as well as in navigation. The focus of
his research is in satellite navigation.
Guenter W. Hein, ESA, The Netherlands
Prof. Dr. Guenter W. Hein is Head of EGNOS and GNSS Evolution Program Department of the European
Space Agency (ESA) where he is in charge of the development of the second generation of EGNOS as well as
Galileo. He has been the former Director of the Institute of Geodesy and Navigation of the University FAF Munich. Prof. Hein has more than 300 scientific and technical papers published, carried out at the university more
than 200 research projects in satellite navigation and educated more than 50 Ph. D.´s. He received 2002 the
prestigious Johannes Kepler Award for “sustained and significant contributions to satellite navigation” from the
US Institute of Navigation which is the highest worldwide award in navigation given only to one individual each
year. Prof. Hein became 2011 a fellow of the US Institution of Navigation. The Technical University of Prague
honored his achievements on satellite navigation with a Doctor honoris causa (Dr. h.c.) in January 2013.
Cosimo La Rocca - Italian Space Agency, ASI, Italy
Born in 1954, graduated with honors in Electronics Engineering, he is an executive with more than thirty-five
years of service in the European space field. He is currently serving as advisor of the President of the Italian
Space Agency, dealing with strategic and operational planning issues. From 2005 to 2007 he was CEO of
Galileo Industries, the former prime contractor for the Galileo IOV phase. Over the years, he had various management roles in Telespazio SpA, as Procurement Director, Mobile Systems Director, CTO and Deputy General
Manager. He obtained also extensive experience in the consumer market, dealing with infomobility products,
as COO of Viasat SpA, and internet services, as COO and CEO of Si2Si SpA. He is the author of various
articles and papers in the space field. He has a parallel musical education, and in the spare time he performs
as liturgical organist. He is Knight of the Italian Republic.
Massimo Claudio Comparini, Telespazio Chief Technical Officer, Italy
Massimo Claudio Comparini (50, born in Rome) is graduated in Electrical Engineering at University of Roma
“La Sapienza” and he also holds a degree in Strategy from Graduated School of Business of Stanford University,
CA (USA). He always worked in the space industry. He joined Selenia Space division in 1983 as microwave
engineer and spent many years in the technical departments with a number of assignments of growing responsibility. Last position in Alenia Spazio has been Chief Technology Officer. In the period 2005 – 2008 he has
been Electronics Technical Officer and Director of Industrial Integration of the new space joint venture with Alcatel space. After he had the position of Deputy Chief Technical Officer for Thales Alenia Space Joint Venture,
CTO of TAS Italia and Vice President for R&D, Technology, Product policy and IPR. From September 2013 he
has been appointed Chief Technical Officer and member of executive committee of Telespazio.
He is also the chairman of Space Innovation in Italy technology platform. He is author of more than 80 papers
and published works in the field of space and microwave technologies, innovation and technology management.
He is seating in various steering committees and board of scientific associations and international conferences.
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CONFERENCE PROGRAM OVERVIEW
08:30 - 17:30 - Foyer - Registration
Monday, October 14
08:30 - 17:30
LEONARDO
Colloquium: Satellite Services for Global Mobility
Chair: Xavier Lobao and Alberto Ginesi, ESA/ESTEC, The Netherlands
08:30 - 17:30 - Foyer - Registration
Tuesday, October 15
08:30 - 10:00
LEONARDO PLENARY
Opening Session
Joint Conference Plenary Session: Satellite Systems for the Needs of the 21st Century
Chair: Frank Gargione, Space Systems Consultant, USA, and Riccardo De Gaudenzi, ESA, The Netherlands
10:00 - 10:50 - Coffee Break
10:50 - 12:30
BOTTICELLI
Ka 1:
Telecommunication Systems 1
Chair: Mario Caron, CRC, Canada
LEONARDO
CARAVAGGIO
ICSSC 1:
DVB-S2 Evolutions I
Chair: Alberto Morello, RAI, Italy
Ka 2:
Telecommunication
Components 1
Chair: Nafiz Karabudak, Lockeed
Martin Corp., USA
LEONARDO
CARAVAGGIO
LEONARDO
CARAVAGGIO
12:30 – 14:00 - Lunch
14:00 - 15:00
BOTTICELLI
Ka 3:
Telecommunication Applications
Chair: Marco Brancati, Telespazio,
Italy
ICSSC 4:
Flexible Satellite Resource
Allocation Architectures, Design
Tools, and Technologies I
Chair: Hector Fenech, Eutelsat,
France
11th BSW:
Small Satellites, Big Possibilities
Chair: Hajime Fukuchi, Tokyo
Metropolitan University, Japan
15:20 - 15:50 - Coffee Break
15:50 - 17:30
BOTTICELLI
Ka 5:
Earth Observation Systems 1
Chair: Massimo Di Lazzaro, Thales
Alenia Space, Italy
Ka 6:
Propagation 1
Chair: Roberto Acosta, NASA
Glenn Research Center, USA
18:30 - 20:30 - Pavilion - Welcome Cocktail Reception
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11th BSW:
Small Satellites, Big Possibilities
(Continued)
Chair: Hajime Fukuchi, Tokyo
Metropolitan University, Japan
CONFERENCE PROGRAM OVERVIEW
Monday, October 14
RAFFAELLO
GIOTTO
ICSSC 5:
Next Generation L/S/K-band
GEO/MEO/LEO Mobile Satellite
Systems, Services, and
Technologies
Chair: Didier Le Boulch, Thales
Alenia Space, France
GALILEO
ICSSC 6:
Satellite Bus Technologies
Chair: Dietmar Schmitt, ESA, The
Netherlands
RAFFAELLO
GIOTTO
GALILEO
RAFFAELLO
ICSSC Panel 1:
Trends in Communications
Satellite Architectures and
Applications (Ka Band and
Upwards)
Chair: Peter Garland, MDA, Canada
ICSSC 7:
Novel Space System Design
Aspects - Hybrid
Satellite/Terrestrial Mobile
Systems & Technologies
Chair: Mario Caron, CRC, Canada
ICSSC 2:
High-Capacity Broadband
Satellite Systems, Services, and
Technologies
Chair: Michel Bousquet, ISAE,
France
Ka 7:
Telecommunication Antennas 1
Chair: Domenico Mignolo, ESA,
The Netherlands
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ICSSC 3:
Satellite-Aided Localization
Systems, Technologies, and
Applications
Chair: Christoph Guenther, DLR,
Germany
Ka 4:
Telecommunication Payloads 1
Chair: Michel Bousquet, ISAE,
France
ICSSC 18:
Advances In Earth Terminals and
Stations Architectures and
Equipment
Chair: Nader Alagha, ESA,
The Netherlands
14:00 - 15:00
GALILEO
15:50 - 17:30
GIOTTO
10:50 - 12:30
Tuesday, October 15
CONFERENCE PROGRAM OVERVIEW
Wednesday, October 16
08:30 - 17:30 - Foyer - Registration
08:30 - 09:50
BOTTICELLI
Ka 8:
Navigation Systems 1
Chair: Marco Lisi, GNSS Services
Engineering Manager, ESA, The
Netherlands, and Special Advisor
of the European Commission
LEONARDO
CARAVAGGIO
LEONARDO
CARAVAGGIO
Ka 9:
Telecommunication
Components 2
Chair: Naoto Kadowaki, NICT,
Japan
ICSSC 8: Advanced Fixed
Satellite Systems, Services, and
Technologies
Chair: Jean-Pierre Choffray, SES,
Luxembourg
10:20 - 12:20
09:50- 10:20 - Coffee Break
BOTTICELLI
Ka 14/ICSSC 13:
Propagation 2
Chair: James Nessel, NASA, USA
ICSSC 10:
Satellite Broadband Systems
and Technologies
Chair: Sébastien Clausse, Thales
Alenia Space, Spain
ICSSC 11:
DVB-S2 Evolutions II
Chair: Mustafa Eroz, Hughes
Network Systems, USA
LEONARDO
CARAVAGGIO
LEONARDO
CARAVAGGIO
12:20 - 14:30 - Lunch & ICSSC Award
14:30 - 15:50
BOTTICELLI
Ka 15:
Telecommunication New
Systems 1
Chair: Arduino Patacchini, Eutelsat,
France
Ka 16:
Telecommunication Ground
Segment 1
Chair: Antonio Vernucci, Space
Engineering, Italy
ICSSC 14: Advances in Satellite
Payload Architectures and
Equipment
Chair: Francesc Coromina, ESA,
The Netherlan
16:00 - 16:30 - Coffee Break
16:30 - 17:50
BOTTICELLI
Ka 18:
Telecommunication New
Systems 2
Chair: Tom Butash, Innovative
Aerospace IS, USA
Ka 19:
Telecommunication Antennas 2
Chair: Giacinto Losquadro, Thales
Alenia Space, Italy
20:00 - 23:00 - Villa Castelletti - Conference Dinner
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ICSSC 16: Flexible Satellite
Resource Allocation
Architectures, Design Tools, and
Technologies
Chair: Nathalie Metzger, Astrium,
France
CONFERENCE PROGRAM OVERVIEW
GIOTTO
GALILEO
RAFFAELLO
GIOTTO
Ka Panel:
Galileo Towards Services
Exploitation
Chair: Marco Lisi, GNSS Services
Engineering Manager, ESA, The
Netherlands, and Special Advisor
of the European Commission
GALILEO
ICSSC 15:
High-Capacity Broadband
Satellite Systems, Services, and
Technologies
Chair: Fabio Lattanzi, SES,
Luxembourg
RAFFAELLO
GIOTTO
GALILEO
RAFFAELLO
Ka 13:
Market Assessment
Chair: Roger Rusch, TelAstra, USA
ICSSC 17: Optical
Communications Techniques
and Technologies
Chair: Christophe Guenther, DLR,
Germany
ICSSC 12:
Communications Protocols and
Networks
Chair: Domenico Mignolo, ESA,
The Netherlands
Ka 20: Navigation Space & GS
Chair: Allen Katz, Linearizer
Technology, USA
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Ka 11:
Earth Observation Payloads &
Sensors 1
Chair: Francesco Caltagirone, ASI,
Italy
Ka 12: Navigation Systems 2
Chair: Cosimo La Rocca,
Finmeccanica, Italy
Ka 17:
Earth Observation Test &
Verifications
Chair: Giuseppe Angino, Thales
Alenia Space, Italy
Ka 21:
Earth Observation Payloads &
Sensors 2
Chair: Hajime Fukuchi, Tokyo
Metropolitan University, Japan
10:20 - 12:20
ICSSC 9:
Antenna Technologies
Chair: James Hinds, EADS
Astrium, United Kingdom
RAFFAELLO
14:30 - 15:50
Ka 10:
Telecommunication Payloads 2
Chair: Hector Fenech, Eutelsat,
France
GIOTTO
16:30 - 17:50
GALILEO
08:30 - 09:50
Wednesday, October 16
CONFERENCE PROGRAM OVERVIEW
Thursday, October 17
08:30 - 10:10
08:30 - 17:30 - Foyer - Registration
BOTTICELLI
Ka 22:
Telecommunication Antennas 3
Chair: Hampton Chan, LORAL
Space Systems, USA
LEONARDO
CARAVAGGIO
LEONARDO
CARAVAGGIO
LEONARDO
CARAVAGGIO
ICSSC 19:
Advances In Satellite Payload
Architectures and Equipment
Chair: Pierre Voisin, Thales Alenia
Space, France
ICSSC 22:
Digital Payload Architecture,
Technologies, and Equipment
Chair: Peter Takats, MDA Corp.,
Canada
10:10 – 10:40 - Coffee Break
10:40 - 12:00
BOTTICELLI
ICSSC 21:
Next Generation L/S/K-band
GEO/MEO/LEO Mobile Satellite
Systems, Services, and
Technologies II
Chair: Peter Garland, MDA, Canada
ICSSC 23:
High-Capacity Broadband
Satellite Systems, Services, and
Technologies III
Chair: Alberto Ginesi, ESA,
The Netherlands
ICSSC 24:
Advanced Data Relay and
Backbone Systems, Services,
and Technologies Chair: PantelisDaniel
Arapoglou, ESA, The Netherlands
12:00 - 13:30 - Lunch
13:30 – 14:50
BOTTICELLI
ICSSC 25:
Payload and Ground Segment
Technologies for Ka, Q/V,
and W-Band
Chair: Andrea Suriani, Thales
Alenia Space, Italy
ICSSC 26:
Next generation L/S/K-band
GEO/MEO/LEO Mobile Satellite
Systems, Services, and
Technologies III
Chair: Naoto Kadowaki, NICT,
Japan
Ka 27: Telecommunication
Ground Segment 2
Chair: Fabio Lattanzi, SES
Broadband Services, Luxembourg
14:50 – 15:30 - LEONARDO
Closing Session
Chair: Frank Gargione, Space Systems Consultant, USA, and Riccardo De Gaudenzi, ESA,The Netherlands
- Reflections on the present state of the satellite industry and its future prospects
Roger Rusch, TelAstra, Inc., USA
- Best Student Paper Awards
Michel Bousquet, ISAE, France
- Closing Remarks
Frank Gargione, Satellite Systems Consultant, USA
- Attendance Draw
Jim Dimarogomas, Mitre, USA and Vice Chair of CMSTC.
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CONFERENCE PROGRAM OVERVIEW
GIOTTO
ICSSC Panel 2:
Satellite R&D Status, the Trend
and Perspective
Chair: Massimo Comparini,
Telespazio, Italy
GIOTTO
Ka 23:
Telecommunication Systems 2
Chair: Richard T. Gedney, ViaSat,
USA
GALILEO
Ka 24:
Telecommunication Payloads 3
Chair: Francesc Coromina, ESA,
The Netherlands
GALILEO
Ka 25:
Earth Observation Systems 2 &
Applications
Chair: Fausto Perri, ALTEC, Italy
10:40 - 12:00
The Netherlands
08:30 - 10:10
Thursday, October 17
GIOTTO
13:30 – 14:50
Ka 28: Telecommunication
Components 3
Chair: Mario Blanco,
MITRE, USA
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CONFERENCE PROGRAM
Monday, October 14
08:00 Registration
17:00
08:30 LEONARDO
17:30 Colloquium: Satellite Services for Global Mobility
Chair: Xavier Lobao and Alberto Ginesi, ESA/ESTEC,
The Netherlands
08:40 Fixing Space for Mobile Satcoms: a Glance into the Future
Giovanni E. Corazza, University of Bologna, Italy
09:10 Intelsat EpicNG for Mobility
James Collett, INTELSAT, United Kingdom
09:40 Beyond Bandwidth
David Schoen, INMARSAT, United Kingdom
10:10 Coffee Break
10:30
10:30 Mobility, Opportunities and Challenges for a Global
FSS Operator
Jean-Pierre Choffray, SES, Luxembourg
11:00 MEO Satellite Applications to Support Mobility Services
David Burr, O3b Networks, The Netherlands
11:30 The Future of Mobile Satellite Services: from M2M to
Broadband Everywhere
Antonio Arcidiacono, Eutelsat, France
12:00 Panel of morning speakers
12:30 Lunch
14:00
14:00
14:30
15:00
15:30
16:00
16:20
16:20
16:50
17:20
17:30
Mobile Satellite TV for Cars, A Dream or Reality?
Yoel Gat, SatixFy, Israel
Aeronautical Communications, A Fresh View on
Complementary and Integrated Technologies and
Services
Markus Werner, TriaGnoSys, Germany
Infrastructure-less Mobile Satellite Communication
in Ka-Band for Disaster Relief Operations
Holger Stadali, Fraunhofer Institute, Germany
Efficient Messaging Services for Interactive Satellite
Networks
Sandro Scalise, DLR, Germany
Coffee Break
Meeting Transmission Regulatory Requirements in a
Heterogeneous Ka Global Mobility Network.
David Nemeth, iDirect, USA
Maritime Ka Antenna Developments
Chris Insall, Sea Tel Cobham, United Kingdom
Panel of morning speakers
Colloquium Closing
Tuesday, October 15
08:00
17:00 Foyer - Registration
08:30 LEONARDO
10:00 Opening Session
Chair: Frank Gargione, Space Systems Consultant, USA, and Riccardo De Gaudenzi, ESA, The Netherlands
- Welcome Speeches by Frank Gargione and Riccardo De Gaudenzi
Joint Conference Plenary Session: Satellite Systems for the Needs of the 21st Century.
Chair: Frank Gargione, Space Systems Consultant, USA, and Riccardo De Gaudenzi, ESA, The Netherlands
- Ms. Magali Vaissiere, Director, European Space Agency Telecom Directorate, The Netherlands
- Dr. Enrico Saggese, President, Italian Space Agency, Italy
- Dr. James Stegeman, GRC Technology Manager Space Communications and Navigation Program, NASA, USA
- Dr. Naoto Kadowaki, Senior Executive Director and Executive Director of Strategic Planning Department, NICT, Japan
- Dr. Giuliano Berretta, Honorary Chairman, Eutelsat, France
10:00 Coffee Break
10:50
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Tuesday, October 15
10:50 - 12:30
08:00 - 17:00 - Foyer - Registration
10:50 - 12:30 - BOTTICELLI
Ka 1: Telecomunication Systems 1
Chair: Mario Caron, CRC, Canada
SPDY, A New Paradigm in Web
Technologies: Performance
Evaluation on a Satellite Link
Alberto Gotta, Erina Ferro, Nedo
Celandroni, Andrea Cardaci, CNR-ISTI,
Italy
Franco Davoli, DITEN - UNIGE, Italy
Luca Caviglione, CNR-ISSIA, Italy
Interference Mitigation on Commercial
Satellite System: Perimeter and Ideas
Francesco Spognetta, Alessandro
Pisano, Vincenzo Schena, Thales Alenia
Space Italy, Italy
Vincenzo Pascale, DIET- University of
Rome Sapienza, Italy
A New Way To Define HTS System
Performance: Statistical Performance
Hugo Gonzalez, Benjamin Ros, Frederic
Lacoste, CNES, France
Broadband Access via integrated
Terrestrial and Satellite systems
(BATS)
Javier Perez Trufero, Simon Watts,
Graham Peters, Avanti Communications
Plc., United Kingdom
Barry Evans, University of Surrey, United
Kingdom
Thierry Fesquet, Astrium SAS, France
Mathieu Dervin, Thales Alenia Space,
France
The ATHENA-FIDUS Ka Band Italian
Civilian and Institutional Mission:
Insights on Space and Ground
Components
Enrico Russo, Giancarlo Varacalli, ASI,
Italy
Alessia Miglietta, Thales Alenia Space,
Italy
Gianni Marasca, Telespazio, Italy
10:50 - 12:30 - LEONARDO
ICSSC 1: DVB-S2 Evolutions I
Chair: Alberto Morello, RAI, Italy
DVB-Sx: The Evolution of the
(Satellite System) Species
Alberto Morello, RAI, Italy
DVB-CID: The Novel DVB Standard for
Satellite Carrier Identification
Vittoria Mignone, Bruno Sacco, Rai, Italy
Ulrik De Bie, Daniel Delaruelle, Newtec
NV, Belgium
Louis Dubin, Comtech EF Data, USA
Optimal Constellations for the
Pragmatic Receiver in the DVB-S2
Standard
Farbod Kayhan, Guido Montorsi,
Politecnico di Torino, Italy
Spectral Efficiency of TimeFrequency-Packed Nonlinear Satellite
Systems
Amina Piemontese, University of Parma,
Italy
Andrea Modenini, Giulio Colavolpe,
Dipartimento di Ingegneria
dell’Informazione, Italy
Nader Alagha, ESA-ESTEC, The
Netherlands
Exploring Faster-than-Nyquist for
Direct-to-Home Satellite Broadcasting
John Anderson, Lund University, Sweden
Antoine Bonnaud, Nghia Pham, JeanMarie Freixe, Eutelsat, France
12:30 - 14:00 - Lunch
20
10:50 - 12:30 - CARAVAGGIO
Ka 2: Telecommunication
Components 1
Chair: Nafiz Karabudak, Lockheed
Martin Corp., USA
High Power Ka-band Waveguide
(WR51) Isolator for Space
Applications
Leo Farhat, Eric Laroche, Gilles Martin,
Cobham, France
Jerome Laroche, CNES, France
Cesar Miquel-Espana, Fabrizio De
Paolis, ESA, The Netherlands
Integrated Linearization and Block
Upconversion for Ka- and Q-Band
Robert Gray, Roger Dorval, Linearizer
Technology, USA
Allen Katz, The College of New Jersey,
USA
An In-Depth Walkthrough For
Optimized Design of a Compact
Architecture Down-Converter for The
New V Band Feeder Link
Massimiliano Tosti, Michele Albertini,
Lino Russo, Space Engineering, Italy
Programmable Ultra Lightweight
System Adaptable Radio (PULSAR)
William Sims, Kosta Varnavas, Eric
Eberly, NASA, USA
Integrated Multi-Channel Ka-Band
Receiver Subsystem for
Communications Payload
Eddie Rodgers, Fabrizio Montauti, L3
Communications Narda MicrowaveWest, USA
Tuesday, October 15
10:50 - 12:30
08:00 - 17:00 - Foyer - Registration
10:50 - 12:30 - GIOTTO
ICSSC Panel 1: Trends in
Communications Satellite
Architectures and Applications (Ka
Band and upwards)
Chair: Peter Garland, MDA Corp.,
Canada
Panelists:
- Martin Agnew, Astrium Services, United
Kingdom
Data Relay Trends, Optical Links
(both ISLs and Space to Ground)
- Tom Eidenschink, VP, Business
Development, Satellite Broadband
Systems, Viasat, USA
Broadband, Consumer and SOTM,
Viasat 2 and Beyond
- Steven Osman, VP Satellite Systems,
SES, Luxembourg
Impacts of Ka Band and up on Future
Broadcast/Narrowcast Applications
- Hector Fenech, Director of Future
Satellite Systems, Eutelsat, France,
Ka-Band Enlarging the Spectrum of
Applications
- Domenico Mignolo, ESA , The
Netherlands
The Race Towards A Terabit/s
Satellite: System and Technology
Challenges
10:50 - 12:30 - GALILEO
ICSSC 2: High-Capacity Broadband
Satellite Systems, Services, and
Technologies1
Chair: Michel Bousquet, ISAE, France
Innovative System Architecture to
Reach the Terabit/s Satellite
Patricia Inigo, Astrium Satellites, France
Oriol Vidal, Eric Alberty, EADS Astrium,
France
Performance of an Alternative SSPABased Payload For Next Generation
Broadband Multi-Spot
beam systems
Martina Angelone, Alberto Ginesi,
Amitabh Chowdhary, ESA/ESTEC, The
Netherlands
High Throughput Satellites: An
Analytical Approach
Hector Fenech, Viphakone
Soumpholphakdy, Sonya Amos, Alessia
Tomatis, Eutelsat, France
Fractional Frequency Reuse in Fixed
Broadband High Throughput Satellite
Systems
Oriol Vidal, Stephane Mourgues, Eric
Alberty, Cyrille Moreau, Astrium, France
Benjamin Ros, CNES, France
10:50 - 12:30 - RAFFAELLO
ICSSC 3: Satellite-Aided Localization
Systems, Technologies, and
Applications
Chair: Christopher Guenther, DLR,
Germany
Software-Defined Radio LTE
Positioning Receiver Towards Future
Hybrid Localization Systems
Jose del Peral-Rosado, Jose LopezSalcedo, Gonzalo Seco-Granados,
Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona,
Spain
Rigas Ioannides, Paolo Crosta, Massimo
Crisci, Francesca Zanier, ESA/ESTEC,
The Netherlands
Galileo/GPS Mass Market Receivers:
Tracking Algorithms Analysis and
Performance.
Nicola Linty, Politecnico di Torino, Italy
Paolo Crosta, ESA/ESTEC, The
Netherlands
Multi-directional Over The Air Testbed
for Robustness Testing of GNSS
Receivers against Jammers and
Spoofers
Gregor Siegert, Markus Landmann,
Günter Rohmer, Giovanni Del Galdo,
Franziska Klier, Alexander Rügamer
Fraunhofer IIS, Germany
Johannes Mahr, Ilmenau University of
Technology, Germany
Signal-Level Integrity Monitoring
Metric for Robust GNSS receivers
Juan Parro, Rigas Ioannides, Massimo
Crisci, ESA, The Netherlands
Jose Lopez-Salcedo, Universitat
Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain
Code Smoothing for BOC Ambiguity
Mitigation
Moises Navarro-Gallardo, Gustavo
López-Risueño, Massimo Crisci, ESA,
The Netherlands
Gonzalo Seco-Granados, Universitat
Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain
12:30 - 14:00 - Lunch
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Tuesday, October 15
14:00 - 15:00 - BOTTICELLI
Ka 3: Telecommunication
Applications
Chair: Marco Brancati, Telespazio, Italy
The Applications of Ka Band Link for
Chinese Space VLBI Program
Wu Jiang, Qinghui Liu, Jinqing Wang,
Lihe Feng, Shanghai Astronomical
Observatory, Chinese Academy of
Sciences, China
KosmoMed: A Novel Paradigm for
Satellite Professional Medical
Services
Sara Jayousi, Luca Ronga, CNIT, Italy
Cesare Aragno, Marco Bagni, KELL,
Italy
Luca Carniato, Federica Fongher,
Opensky, Italy
Capacity Dimensioning for
Aeronautical Communications in
North Atlantic Corridor
Alain Pirovano, Fabien Garcia, ENAC,
France
José Radzik, University of
Toulouse/ISAE, France
14:00 - 15:20
14:00 - 15:20 - LEONARDO
ICSSC 4: Flexible Satellite Resource
Allocation Architectures, Design
Tools, and Technologies I
Chair: Hector Fenech, Eutelsat, France
Needs for Bandwidth Reconfigurable
Filter Networks for Space Application
Christoph Ernst, Piero Angeletti, Fabrizio
De Paolis, ESA, The Netherlands
Software Tools for Multibeam
Payloads
Nathalie Metzger, ASTRIUM Satellites,
France
Piero Gabellini, Space Engineering, Italy
Irregular Beam Sizes and NonUniform Bandwidth Allocation,
Address in Non-Uniform Traffic
Demands in HTS Multibeam Satellite
Barry Evans, Paul Thompson, Argyrios
Kyrgiazos, University of Surrey, United
Kingdom
Dynamic Resource Allocation for a
Future Satellite System Employing an
SS-TDMA Payload
Barry Evans, Paul Thompson, Argyrios
Kyrgiazos, University of Surrey, United
Kingdom
15:20 -15:50 - Coffee Break
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14:00 - 15:20 - CARAVAGGIO
11th BSW: Small Satellites, Big
Possibilities
Chair: Hajime Fukuchi, Tokyo
Metropolitan University, Japan
Opening Remarks
Hajime Fukuchi, Tokyo Metropolitan
University, Japan
Small Satellite Program of ISAS/JAXA
Munetaka UENO, ISAS/JAXA, Japan
Changing the Economics of Universal
Satellite TV and Internet
Tony Holt, Dave Robson, Clare Martin,
Surrey Satellite Technology Limited,
United Kingdom
Great Things Come in Small Packages
Chris Richmond, Orbital Science
Corporation, USA
Tuesday, October 15
14:00 - 15:20 - GIOTTO
ICSSC 5: Next Generation L/S/K-band
GEO/MEO/LEO Mobile Satellite
Systems, Services, and Technologies
II
Chair: Didier Le Boulch, Thales Alenia
Space, France
Designing Satellites for the
Broadband Aero Market
Christopher McLain, Janet King, Sunil
Panthi, Panasonic Avionics Corporation,
USA
The eXConnect Broadband
Aeronautical Service
Sunil Panthi, Christopher McLain, Janet
King, Panasonic Avionics Corporation,
USA
Distributed Ground-based
Beamforming
Zhen Gao, Wen Pan, Ming Zhao, Jing
Wang, Tsinghua University, China
Umehira Masahiro, Ibaraki University,
Japan
Inline Interference Mitigation
Techniques for Spectral Coexistence
of GEO and NGEO Satellites
Shree Krishna Sharma, Symeon
Chatzinotas, Bjorn Ottersten, SnT,
University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg
14:00 - 15:20
14:00 - 15:20 - GALILEO
ICSSC 6: Satellite Bus Technologies
Chair: Dietmar Schmitt, ESA, The
Netherlands
Design of Next-Generation All-Electric
Telecommunication Satellites
Atri Dutta, Paola Libraro, N Jeremy
Kasdin, Edgar Choueiri, Princeton
University, USA
Philippe Francken, SES, Luxembourg
ALPHASAT, the First in-Orbit
Experience of the New European
Large Platform Alphabus
Michel Roux, O. Pansart, Astrium,
France
M. Patier N. Mosson, Thales Alenia
Space, France
S. Weinberg, Ph. Sivac, ESA, The
Netherlands
An Enabling Satellite-to-Satellite
Transceiver Design for
Intra-Constellation Communications
Grant Bonin, Space Flight Laboratory,
Canada
Hybrid Propulsion System for Satellite
Loredana Sollazzo, Anna Notarantonio,
Gerardo Spera, Sergio Pica, Shila
Shojaee, Silvia Occhigrossi, Thales
Alenia Space, Italy
15:20 -15:50 - Coffee Break
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14:00 - 15:00 - RAFFAELLO
Ka 4: Telecom Payloads 1
Chair: Michel Bousquet, ISAE, France
Testing Validation of Flexible
Payloads: the Return of Experience
Andrea Santoni, Luciano Bruno,
Alessandro Pisano, Thales Alenia
Space, Italy
Photonic Technologies in Flexible
Telecommunication Payloads
Salvatore Vono, Gianpiero Di Paolo,
Mauro Piccinni, Thales Alenia Space,
Italy
Michel Sotom, Thales Alenia Space,
France
Payload Units Flexibility and High
Level of Integration: Ka LNA New
Generation
Renato Vinci, Giampiero Di Paolo,
Ernesto Pensa, Thales Alenia Space,
Italy
Tuesday, October 15
15:50 - 16:50 - BOTTICELLI
Ka 5: Earth Observation Systems 1
Chair: Massimo Di Lazzaro, Thales
Alenia Space, Italy
A Novel Concept for Ka-Band Single
Satellite SAR Interferometer
Chiara Germani, Roberto Venturini,
Thales Alenia Space, Italy
Andrea Monti Guarnieri, Polytechnic of
Milan, Italy
Davide Giudici, Daniele Mapelli,
ARESYS, Italy
GMES Sentinel-1: Satellite System
Architecture and Operations
Giacomo Taini, Aniceto Panetti,
Michelangelo L’Abbate, Thales Alenia
Space, Italy
Svein Lokas, Luisella Giulicchi, ESAESTEC, The Netherlands
Compact SAR: An EO Satellite Based
On X-Band SAR with Foldable
Reflector Antenna
Andrea Torre, Chiara Germani, Thales
Alenia Space Italy, Italy
15:50 - 17:50
15:50 - 17:50 - LEONARDO
Ka 6: Propagation 1
Chair: Roberto Acosta, NASA Glenn
Research Center, USA
Site Diversity on Two Slant Path Links
in Norway
Lars Braten, Jostein Sander, Terje-Mikal
Mjelde, FFI, Norway
Terje Tjelta, Telenor, Norway
Monthly Rain Attenuation Statistics in
a Slant Path To Alphasat, at 19.7 And
39.4 Ghz, from Daily Rainfall in Milan
in the Years 1858
Emilio Matricciani, Carlo Riva,
Polytechnic of Milan, Italy
Model for Monthly Rainfall Rate
Distribution Based On Monthly Rain
Amount And Average Temperature
Nicolas Jeannin, Laurent Castanet,
ONERA, France
Frederic Lacoste, CNES, France
Results from Two Years of Ka-band
Propagation Characterization at
Svalbard, Norway
James Nessel, Jacquelynne Morse,
Michael Zemba, NASA Glenn Research
Center, USA
Efficiency of Satellite Channels
Affected by Rain Attenuation and
Ideal Fade Countermeasure Method
Emilio Matricciani, Polytechnic of Milan,
Italy
Statistics of Total and Rain
Attenuation Measurements in
Toulouse from the 20.2 GHz beacon of
Astra 3B
Hoang G. Nguyen, Xavier Boulanger,
Laurent Castanet, ONERA, France
Michel Bousquet, ISAE, France
15:20 -15:50 - Coffee Break
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15:50 - 17:30 - CARAVAGGIO
11th BSW: (Continued)
Chair: Hajime Fukuchi, Tokyo
Metropolitan University, Japan
Unusual Small Satellite Applications
Dan Williams, Busek Co. Inc., USA
Small Satellite Program and
Technology at the Italian Space
Agency
Mario Cosmo, ASI, Italy
Closing Remarks
Naoto Kadowaki, NICT, Japan
Tuesday, October 15
15:50 - 17:30 - GIOTTO
ICSSC 7: Novel Space System Design
Aspects
& Hybrid Satellite/Terrestrial Mobile
Systems & Technologies
Chair: Mario Caron, CRC, Canada
Federated Satellite Systems:
Leverages and Threats Identification
by Stakeholders Value Network
Modeling
Alessandro Aliakbargolkar, Skolkovo
Tech, Russia
Space Missions Cybersecurity
Modelling
Julio Vivero, GMV Soluciones Globales
Internet S.A.U., Spain
Automation of Payload Management
Operations
Francisco Javier de Pablos Martín, GMV,
Spain
R&D Status of Satellite/Terrestrial
Integrated Mobile Communication
System
Amane Miura, Yoshiyuki Fujino, Teruaki
Orikasa, Morio Toyoshima, Maki Akioka,
Kazunori Okada, Hiroyuki Tsuji, NICT,
Japan
15:50 - 17:50
15:50 -17:10 - GALILEO
Ka 7: Telecommunication Antennas 1
Chair: Domenico Mignolo, ESA, The
Netherlands
Ku/Ka Band Satcom Antenna
Radomes
Alessia Colasante, Orlando Russo, Luca
Marcellini, Fabio Maggio, Rudy Lo Forti,
Giancarlo Bellaveglia, TeS
Teleinformatica e Sistemi, Italy
Luis Rolo, Rolv Midthassel, JeanChristophe Angevain, ESA/ESTEC, The
Netherlands
Challenges in the Design and
Deployment of Large Aperture
Antennas in the Ka, V, Q, W-Bands
Joe H. Duller, General Dynamics
Satcom, USA
RF Performance Control Of MeshBased Large Deployable Reflector
Marzia Migliorelli, Lorenzo Scialino,
Space Engineering, Italy
Marco Pasian, Maurizio Bozzi, Luca
Pellegrini, University of Pavia, iTALY
Kees van ’t Klooster, ESA ESTEC, The
Netherlands
Frequency Sharing Between Satellite
and Terrestrial in the 2GHz MSS Band
Barry Evans, Adegbenga Awoseyila,
University of Surrey, United Kingdom
Hee Wook Kim, Electronics and
Telecommunications Research, Republic
of Korea
15:50 - 17:30 - LEONARDO
ICSSC 18: Advances in Earth
Terminals and Stations Architectures
and Equipment
Chair: Nader Alagha, ESA, The
Netherlands
A Multiband Military Communication
Antenna
Reza Chaharmir, Mario Caron, Jafar
Shaker, Aldo Petosa, CRC, Canada
SOTM Terminal Testing under RealWorld Conditions
Gregor Siegert, Markus Landmann,
Giovanni Del Galdo, Florian Raschke,
Fraunhofer IIS, Germany
Gerold Jaeger-Waldau, ND SatCom,
Germany
Enhancements for the Broadband
Satellite Network Architecture
Hans Peter Lexow, Ratna Winduratna,
Helge Fanebust, Christophe Coutand,
STM Norway, Norway
Sensitivity Analysis of Multicarrier
Digital Pre-distortion/ Equalization
Techniques for Non-linear Satellite
Channels
Roberto Piazza, Bhavani Shankar,
University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Stefano Cioni, ESA/ESTEC, The
Netherlands
Michael Grasslin, Steinbeis Transfer
Centre for Space, Germany
Konstantinos Liolis, Frank Zimmer, SES,
Luxembourg
Efrain Zenteno, Daniel Rönnow,
University of Gävle, Sweden
Performance Comparison of Antenna
de-Pointing Estimation Methods for
SOTM Terminal Testing
Mostafa Alazab, Giovanni Del Galdo,
Ilmenau University of Technology,
Germany
Markus Landmann, Gregor Siegert,
Florian Raschke, Fraunhofer Institute for
Integrated Circ, Germany
15:20 -15:50 - Coffee Break
25
Wednesday, October 16
08:30 - 09:50
08:00 - 17:00 - Foyer - Registration
08:30 - 09:50 - BOTTICELLI
Ka 8: Navigation Systems 1
Chair: Marco Lisi, GNSS Services
Engineering Manager, ESA, The
Netherlands, and Special Advisor of the
European Commission
08:30 - 09:50 - LEONARDO
Ka 9: Telecommunication
Components 2
Chair: Naoto Kadowaki, NICT, Japan
The Contribution of GALILEO to the
Worldwide SAR System
Francesco Paggi, Monica Gotta, Claudio
Vegni, Mauro Marinelli, Thales Alenia
Space, Italy
Igor Stojkovic, ESA, The Netherlands
K-band 4x4 Multi-Port Amplifier using
Auto Port-to-Port Isolation Calibration
Method
Seong-Mo Moon, Dong-Hwan Shin,
Man-Seok Uhm, In-Bok Yom, ETRI,
Korea
Galileo Moving Towards Early
Services: Status and Challenges
Marco Lisi, ESA, The Netherlands
SESAR “Future mobile satellite
communication”: Iris ATM SatCom
System Verification and Validation
following the E-OCVM
Pierpaolo Tavernise, Stefano La
Barbera, Thales Alenia Space Italia, Italy
Manuel Admella, Indra Sistemas, S.A,
Spain
Jesús Mario García Cano, AENA, Spain
SENECA Program for GNSS in Civil
Aviation
Ennio Episcopo, Antonio Salonico,
Telespazio, Italy
Orlando Galimberti, Quirino Morante,
Thales Alenia Space, Italy
Giuseppe Solfrizzo, Vania Di Francesco,
Selex ES, Italy
Giuseppe Di Bitonto, Valerio Paciucci,
Ingegneria dei Sistemi, Italy
Rino Bellapadrona, Alessio Di Salvo,
ENAV, Italy
Salvatore Viviano, Alberto Tuozzi, ASI,
Italy
Advanced High Power Amplifier
Technology Choices for K, Ka And
Q/V-Band Systems
Michael Cascone, Communications &
Power Industries, USA
50 to 20 Ghz Ultra Low Noise
Receiver/Converter
Daniela Apollonio, ALTRAN, Italy
Francesco Vitulli, Paolo Ranieri, Andrea
Suriani, Thales Alenia Space, Italy
Ernesto Limiti, Walter Ciccognani,
University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy
Francesco Scappaviva, MEC, Italy
Tommaso Cavanna, Sergio Arena,
WAVE, Italy
New Ka-Band Output Dual Multiplexer
for Multibeam Satellites Payloads
Qiang Shi, Ming Yu, Jeff Olney, Steve
Lundquist, Gregory Healy, COM DEV,
Canada
09:50 - 10:20 - Coffee Break
26
08:30 - 09:50 - CARAVAGGIO
ICSSC 8: Advanced Fixed Satellite
Systems, Services, and Technologies
Chair: Jean-Pierre Choffray, SES,
Luxembourg
Digital Predistortion Feasibility
Studies for Multicarrier Satellite
Communication Systems
Noel Kelly, Thomas Brazil, Anding Zhu,
University College Dublin, Ireland
Improving Decoding Performance of
DVB-S2 Transmission on a Nonlinear
Channel
Stephen Wilson, Chenguang Xu, John
Peng, Tingjun Xie, University of Virginia,
USA
Two-way (Same-Frequency) Relaying :
Information Rates and DVB-S2
Performance
Stephen Wilson, Chenguang Xu, John
Peng, Tingjun Xie, University of Virginia,
USA
Experimental Evaluation of a PolyPolarization Multiplexing System with
Timing/Frequency
Recovery for Satellite
Communications
Julian Webber, Masanori Yofune, Kiyoshi
Kobayashi, Kazuto Yano, Hiroshi Ban,
ATR, Japan
Wednesday, October 16
08:30 - 09:50
08:00 - 17:00 - Foyer - Registration
08:30 - 09:50 - GALILEO
Ka 10: Telecommunication Payloads 2
Chair: Hector Fenech, Eutelsat, France
Multidimensional Channel Allocation
Algorithm to Maximally Utilize
Bandwidth and Power of a Satellite
Transponder
Katsuya Nakahira, Jun Mashino, Jun-ichi
Abe, Takatoshi Sugiyama, NTT, Japan
Masanori Yofune, ATR, Japan
A Study of On-Board Processor for
Terrestrial and Satellite Integrated
Communication System
Yoshiaki Fujino,Toyo University, Japan
Amane Miura, Maki Akioka, Hiroyuki
Tsuji, Teruaki Orikasa, NICT, Japan
Takaomi Matsuzaki, NT Space, Japan
Jnaoki Kobayashi, Takeo Kumagai,
Yoichi Koishi, NEC, Japan
Maximizing Throughput in a Broadband Communication Satellite
Krishnan Raghavan, Huiwen Yao, Jack
Yi, Orbital Sciences Corporation, USA
Design and Performance Optimization
of Multibeam Dual-Polarization
Flexible Payloads
Piero Gabellini, Massimiliano Tosti,
Emanuele Tirrò, Space Engineering, Italy
Nathalie Metzger-Fragnol, Astrium SAS,
France
Felice M. Vanin, ESA, The Netherlands
08:30 - 09:30 - GIOTTO
ICSSC 9: Antenna Technologies
Chair: James Hinds, EADS Astrium,
United Kingdom
Experimental verification of high gain
ESV employing Distributed Array
Antenna technology
Kouhei Suzaki, Yoshinori Suzuki,
Takatoshi Sugiyama, Takashi Hirose,
NTT Corporation, Japan
A Study of Large Reflector Antenna
mounted on Communication Satellite
for Satellite /Terrestrial Mobile
Communication System
Teruaki Orikasa, Hiroyuki Tsuji, Yoshiyuki
Fujino, Amane Miura, NICT, Japan
Development of Long Deployable
Dipole Antennas for Sounder Radars
in Thales Alenia Space-Italia
Rocco Raffaele Trento, Roberto Mizzoni,
Paolo Nischese, Giuseppe Mascolo,
Davide Scarozza, Alberto Meschini,
Thales Alenia Space, Italy
Mirco Zaccariotto, Stefano Debei, Carlo
Bettanini, CISAS, Italy
Gianluigi Baldesi, ESA, The Netherlands
08:30 - 09:50 - RAFFAELLO
Ka 11: Earth Observation Payloads &
Sensors 1
Chair: Francesco Caltagirone, ASI, Italy
An overview of “COSMO-SkyMed di
Seconda Generazione” civilian
products and image quality
Manfredi Porfilio, Claudia A. M.
Fiorentino, Fabio Covello, ASI, Italia
Diego Calabrese, Roberto Episcopo,
Paolo Inversi, Thales Alenia Space, Italy
The new COSMO-SkyMed ScanSAR
L1B processor
Manfredi Porfilio, Fabio D’Amico,
Giuseppe Francesco De Luca, Fabio
Covello, ASI, Italy
Paolo Inversi, Vito Ferri, Maria Grieco,
Telespazio, Italy
Daniele Cangini, Vincenzo Giannini,
Digimat, Italy
Technology Developments for Next
Generation SAR Antennae
Manfredi Porfilio, Claudia A.M.
Fiorentino, Giuseppe Francesco De
Luca, ASI, Italy
Maurizio Falferi, Antonio Fina, Michele
Colucci, Sergio Di Nardo, Marziale
Feudale, Walter Steffè,
Franco Vasarelli, Antonio De Biase,
Raffaele Carnesecchi, Thales Alenia
Space, Italy
The Sentinel-3 Electrical Power
Subsystem
Daniele Carlani, Emiliano Scione,
Giorgio Daprati, Marco Mappini, Thales
Alenia Space, Italy
Christophe Gouault, Thales Alenia
Space, France
Jesus Rancano, ESA, The Netherlands
09:50 - 10:20 - Coffee Break
27
Wednesday, October 16
10:20 - 12:20 - BOTTICELLI
Ka 14/ICSSC 13: Propagation 2
Chair: James Nessel, NASA, USA
A Tropospheric Scintillation Time
Series Synthesizer Based on
Stochastic Differential Equations
Charilaos Kourogiorgas, Athanasios
Panagopoulos, National Technical
University of Athens, Greece
On the Modelling of Time Diversity
Performance Prediction for
Broadband Satellite Communication
Systems
Charilaos Kourogiorgas, Athanasios
Panagopoulos, National Technical
University of Athens, Greece
Spiros N. Livieratos, George
Chatzarakis, ASPETE, Greece
On the Performance of Diversity and
ARQ Techniques for Robust
Mitigation of Interference in Mobile
SATCOM Terminals
Mario Blanco, MITRE Corporation, USA
Power Control in Satellite-based
WCDMA Uplink Channels
K. Sam Shanmugan, University of
Kansas, USA
Minimum-Redundancy Link-Layer
Code Design for the Railroad Satellite
Channel
Lam Pham-Sy, David Declercq, ETIS
ENSEA/UCP/CNRS
Valentin Savin, CEA-LETI
Nghia Pham, Eutelsat, France
Space Time Channel Model for the
Analysis of LEO to Ground Ka Band
Data Download Links: Presentation of
The Model and Applications
Nicolas Jeannin, Laurent Castanet,
ONERA, France
Frédéric Lacoste, CNES, France
10:20 - 10:00
10:20 - 12:00 - LEONARDO
ICSSC 10: Satellite Broadband
Systems and Technologies
Chair: Sébastien Clausse, Thales Alenia
Space, Spain
AMERHIS Broadband Highly Efficient
Solutions for Advanced Services
Carla Salas, Ana Solano, Ana Jalón, Ana
Yun Garcia, Isaac Moreno, Thales Alenia
Space España, Spain
Feasibility Study of a Vega Launched
Low Thrust Geostationary
Communication Satellite
Gilbert Fanchini, Paolo Gaudenzi,
University of Rome “Sapienza”, Italy
Design of On-board Components for
21GHz-band Broadcasting Satellite
using Array-fed Reflector Antenna
Masashi Kamei, NHK, Japan
Partial Decode-and-Forward of LDPC
codes for On-board Processing
Satellite Platform
Hang Li, Zhen Gao, Wen Pan, Ming
Zhao, Jing Wang, Tsinghua University,
China
Future Opportunities for Next
Generation OBP Enhanced Satellite
Payloads
Juan Manuel Rodriguez Bejarano,
Ignacio Jimenez, Josep Prat, Ana Yun
Garcia, Thales Alenia Space España,
Spain
Characterisation of nonlinearity and
intermodulation distortion in C- & Kuband satellite transponders
Ifiok Otung, University of South Wales,
United Kingdom
12:20 - 14:30 - Lunch & ICSSC Award
28
10:20 - 12:00 - CARAVAGGIO
ICSSC 11: DVB-S2 Evolutions II
Chair: Mustafa Eroz, Hughes Network
Systems, USA
Hierarchical Modulations for TwoLevel Transmission against Rain
Fades in Satellite Broadcasting
Cristina Ciochina-Duchesne, Damien
Castelain, Julien Guillet, Loic Brunel,
Mitsubishi Electric R&D Centre Europe,
France
Fumihiro Hasegawa, Mitsubishi Electric
ITC, Japan
Bandwidth Optimization for Satellite
Digital Broadcasting
Stefano Cioni, Alberto Ginesi, Christoph
Ernst, ESA, The Netherlands
Giulio Colavolpe, CNIT, University of
Parma, Italy
Reduction of Out-of-Band Power in
SC-OFDM Systems
Fumihiro Hasegawa, Masatsugu
Higashinaka, Akihiro Okazaki, Fumio
Ishizu, Mitsubishi Electric Corporation,
Japan
Damien Castelain, Loïc Brunel, David
Mottier,
Mitsubishi Electric R&D Europe, France
Location-adaptive network-coded
video transmission for improved
Quality-of-Experience
Smrati Gupta, Maria Angeles Vazquez
Castro, Universitat Autonoma De
Barcelona, Spain
Wednesday, October 16
10:20 - 12:00 - GIOTTO
Ka 13: Market Assessment
Chair: Roger Rusch, TelAstra, USA
Industry Perspective: A Closer Look
at High Throughput Satellites
Benjamin Pawling, Keith Olds, Harris
CapRock Communications, USA
Broadband Communication Services:
Key Elements to Be Considered by a
Service Provider
Laura Anselmi, Marco Brancati, Maria
Cristina Lupi, Giovanni Verardi,
Domenico Vitale, Telespazio, Italy
Utilization of Geographic User
Distribution in Ka Band Multibeam
Planning
Riccardo Carducci, Marco Certelli, Marco
Conti, Daniele D’Ambrosio, Alessandro
Righetto, Telespazio, Italy
Telespazio & the Ka-band
Communications Market
Laura Anselmi, Marco Brancati,
Giancarlo Cosenza, Marco Ferrari,
Telespazio, Italy
Delivering on the Broadband Promise:
Market Figures, Technology Trends
and Institutional Landscape
Fabio Lattanzi, Antonio Bove, Luis
Emiliani, SES, Luxembourg
10:20 - 12:00
10:20 - 11:40 - GALILEO
ICSSC 12: Communications Protocols
and Networks
Chair: Domenico Mignolo, ESA, The
Netherlands
Metro Ethernet for Future Satcom
Systems
Fabrice Arnal, Cedric Baudoin, Thales
Alenia Space, France
Riadh Dhaou, Emmanuel Chaput,
Beatrice Paillassa, ENSEEIHT / IRIT,
France
Patrick Gelard, Emmanuel Dubois,
CNES, France
An Intelligent Satellite Multicast and
Caching Overlay for CDNs to Improve
Performance in Video Applications
Christopher Brinton, Mung Chiang,
Ehsan Aryafar, Princeton University, USA
Stan Russo, Steve Corda, Ramiro
Reinoso, SES, USA
Latency Analysis of Real-Time Web
Protocols Over a Satellite Link
Matteo Collina, Carlo Caini, Giovanni
Corazza, Alessandro Vanelli-Coralli,
University of Bologna, Italy
Raffaello Secchi, University of Aberdeen,
United Kingdom
QoE driven adaptive video with
Overlapping Network Coding for Best
Effort Erasure Satellite Links
Maria Pimentel, Paresh Saxena, Maria
Angeles Vazquez Castro Universitat
Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain
Evaluation of DVB-S2 Performance on
an Experimental Ka-band Satellite
Link in the UK
Ifiok Otung, University of South Wales,
United Kingdom
12:20 - 14:30 - Lunch & ICSSC Award
29
10:20 - 12:00 - RAFFAELLO
Ka 12: Navigation Systems 2
Chair: Cosimo La Rocca, Finmeccanica,
Italy
Ka Band Communication for Airline
Sireesh Pallikonda, Veronica La Regina,
International Space University, France
Vibha Shivastava, Aerodynamics ARDC, India
New Satellite-based Communication
Standard for Air Traffic Management
Jordi Batlle, Ivan Vega, Josep Vila, David
Fernandez, Joan Manuel Cebrian, Indra
Sistemas, Spain
Carlo Ciancarelli, Thales Alenia Space,
Italy
Paolo Burzigotti, ESA / ESTEC, The
Netherlands
B. Gadat, N. van Wambeke, Marc
Ratiney, Thales Alenia Space, France
Satellite Communications for Air
Traffic Management
Catherine Morlet, Felice M. Vanin,
Rafaella Florou, Nicholas Lan, ESA, The
Netherlands
The Galileo PRS Scenario Simulator
Carlo Cornacchini, Alfredo Ferrarotti,
Roberto Romanato, Eugenio Rossini,
Space Engineering, Italy
Filippo Rodriguez, Roberto Salvatorelli,
Andrea Scorzolini,Telespazio, Italy
Search and Rescue Mission in
Medium Earth Orbit
David Gomez, Francesc Dalmases,
Roger Vilaseca, MIER Comunicaciones,
Spain
Jose Maria Montero, RYMSA, Spain
Francesco Paggi, Thales Alenia Space,
Italy
Giovanni Boscagli, Igor Stojkovic, Luca
Salghetti Drioli, ESA/ESTEC, The
Netherlands
Wednesday, October 16
14:30 - 15:50 - BOTTICELLI
Ka 15: Telecommunication New
Systems 1
Chair: Arduino Patacchini, Eutelsat,
France
Achieving a Terabit/s GEO Satellite
System
Erich Lutz, DLR, Germany
Eutelsat’s Evolving Ka-Band Missions
Hector Fenech, Alessia Tomatis, Sonya
Amos, Viphakone Soumpholphakdy,
Jose-Luis Serrano Merino, Eutelsat,
France
TERASAT: High-throughput Satellite
System by 2020
Erwan Corbel, Thales Alenia Space,
France
Graham Peters, Avanti Consulting,
United Kingdom
Ray Sperber, SES, Luxembourg
Ernst Bosch, Thales Electronic Devices,
Germany
Broadband (TOOWAY) via KaSat - A
General Outlook of Turkish and
Surrounding Markets
Tolga Sönmezalp, Eser Telekom, Turkey
14:30 - 15:50
14:30 - 15:50 - LEONARDO
Ka 16: Telecommunication Ground
Segment 1
Chair: Antonio Vernucci, Space
Engineering, Italy
High Power Millimeter Wave
Communications Uplink Helix TWTs
Chae Chong, David A. Cordrey, Richard
Dawson, Jeff Forster, Dennis Layman,
Michael Ramay, Richard Stolz, Craig
Washington, Xiaoling Zhai L-3
Communications, USA
Ground Segment Technologies for
Ka-Band and Beyond
Joseph Merchlinsky, Gregory Ernst,
Robert Kepley, Hughes Network
Systems, USA
Q/V Band Satellite Feeder Links:
Ready for Deployment
Hau Ho, Ronald Squires, Christopher
Brown, Northrop Grumman Aerospace
Systems, USA
An Enhanced DVB-RCS Receiver with
Interference Mitigation Capabilities
Eugenio Rossini, Aldo Masci, Roberto
Romanato, Simone Luperti, Space
Engineering, Italy
Paolo Burzigotti, ESA, The Netherlands
Domenico Giancristofaro, Thales Alenia
Space, Italy
16:00 - 16:30 - Coffee Break
30
14:30 - 15:50 - CARAVAGGIO
ICSSC 14: Advances In Satellite
Payload Architectures and Equipment
Chair: Francesc Coromina, ESA, The
Netherlands
Overview of payload/system
simulation tools at ESA
Felice M. Vanin, Salvatore D’addio, Piero
Angeletti, Juan Lizarraga, Francesc
Coromina, ESA-ESTEC, The
Netherlands
New Analog Predistortion Linearizer
for Ku-band TWTA allowing 1GHz
Instantaneous Wide-Band Satellite
Operation
Jean-Francois Villemazet, Philippe
Voisin, Jean-Claude Azzara, Jean
Maynard, Hissa Yahi, Eva Maria
Gonzalez Esteban, Annaick Carlier,
Thales Alenia Space, France
Geoffroy Soubercaze-Pun, Francis
Gizard, CNES, France
Sparse Arrays for SatCom
Applications
Piero Angeletti, Giovanni Toso, ESA, The
Netherlands
Multicarrier Passive Inter-Modulation
Prediction from 2 Carrier
Measurements
Jacques Sombrin, TéSA, France
Isabelle Albert, Geoffroy SoubercazePun, CNES, France
Wednesday, October 16
14:30 - 16:00 - GIOTTO
Ka Panel: Galileo Towards Services
Exploitation
Chair: Marco Lisi, GNSS Services
Engineering Manager, ESA, The
Netherlands, and Special Advisor of the
European Commission
Panelists:
- Philippe Bertrand, GNSS Manager,
French Ministry of Defence, France
- Gian Gherardo Calini, Head of Market
Development, GSA, Belgium
- Christoph Günther, Director of Institute
of Communication and Navigation, DLR,
Germany
- Guenter Hein, Head of Galileo
Operations and Evolution, ESA, The
Netherlands
- Cosimo La Rocca, ASI-Italian Space
Agency, Italy
14:30 - 16:00
14:30 - 15:50 - GALILEO
ICSSC 15: High-Capacity Broadband
Satellite Systems, Services, and
Technologies
Chair: Fabio Lattanzi, SES, Luxembourg
Highly efficient broadband
transmission system
Masayoshi Tanaka, Takahiro Ohkubo,
Nihon University, Japan
Performance Evaluation of Enhanced
Poly-polarization Multiplexing
Scheme for Satellite Communications
Masanori Yofune, ATR Wave
Engineering Laboratories, Japan
Kiyoshi Kobayashi, Kazuto Yano, Julian
Webber, Hiroshi Ban, Advanced
Telecommunications Research Ins,
Japan
Code Design for Frame-Headers in
Adaptive Coding and Modulation
systems
Farbod Kayhan, Guido Montorsi,
Politecnico di Torino, Italy
On Distributed Resource Allocation in
Fully Meshed Satellite Networks
Andreas Wolf, Hartmut Brandt, German
Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany
Stefan Lipp, Rainer Hildinger, Bastien
Hamet, Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft,
Germany
Philipp Driess, Markus Brueckner,
Florian Evers, Technical University of
Ilmenau, Germany
16:00 - 16:30 - Coffee Break
31
14:30 - 15:50 - RAFFAELLO
Ka 17: Earth Observation Test &
Verifications
Chair: Giuseppe Angino, Thales Alenia
Space, Italy
GMES Sentinel-1: Satellite System
Development and Qualification
Marco Cotogni, Aniceto Panetti,
Giacomo Taini, Michelangelo L’Abbate,
Roberto Silvestri, Maurizio Di Serio,
Thales Alenia Space, Italy
Svein Lokas, Luisella Giulicchi, ESAESTEC, The Netherlands
The COSMO-SkyMed Seconda
Generazione Electrical Verification
Approach
Emiliano Scione, Daniele Carlani,
Giorgio Daprati, Gerardo Spera Isabella
Citrea, Thales Alenia Space, Italia
Edmondo Scorzafava, ASI, Italy
CSG Mission Simulator: A Feasibility
and Sustainability Tool for COSMO
Seconda Generazione Mission
Alessandro Cricenti, Ignazio Rana,
Flavia Carnevale, Thales Alenia Space,
Italy
Fabio Covello, Agenzia Spaziale Italiana,
Italy
EXOMARS Ka Radar Doppler:
Outdoor Test philosophy
Marco Iorio, Andrea Olanda, Pasquale
Pepe, Elisa Pietropaoli, Francesca
Temussi,
Luciano Zuccalà, Maurizio Capuano,
Thales Alenia Space, Italy
Wednesday, October 16
16:30 - 17:50 - BOTTICELLI
Ka 18: Telecommunication New
Systems 2
Chair: Tom Butash, Innovative
Aerospace IS, USA
Ka Sat, an Outperforming Broadband
Communication Platform Paving The
Way for a New Era in the Satellite
Services
Jean-Francois Fenech, Skylogic, Italy
Broadband and Ka-Band
Tom Eidenschink, Steve Gardner, Robert
Wilson, Xiao Wu, ViaSat Inc., USA
Nigerian Communication Satellite
(Nigcomsat-1r) Ka-Band System
Lasisi Lawal, Nigcomsat Ltd/ University
of Sussex, Nigeria
Chris R. Chatwin, University of Sussex,
United Kingdom
Building the Bricks of High
Throughput Satellites
Pierre Bosshard, Bernard Charrat, JeanMichel Merour, Thales Alenia Space,
France
20:00 - 23:00 - Conference Dinner
16:30 - 17:50
16:30 - 17:50 - LEONARDO
Ka 19: Telecommunication Antennas 2
Chair: Giacinto Losquadro, Thales Alenia
Space, Italy
On-board Transmit Direct Radiating
Array in Ka-Band using constrained
sparse array configuration
Alfredo Catalani, Mario Albertini, Lino
Russo, Space Engineering, Italy
Giovanni Toso, Piero Angeletti, ESA, The
Netherlands
Optimal Shape Design for Offset-Feed
Deployable Mesh Reflectors with High
Operating Frequencies
Hang Shi, Bingen Yang, University of
Southern California, USA
Houfei Fang, Shanghai YS Info Tech Co,
China
V-Band Uplink Digital Beam Forming
Jaafar Cherkaoui, Sylvain Richard, MDA
Corporation, Canada
Enabling Technology for Ka-band
Phased Array Mobile Terminals: SiGe
Multinode MMIC
Mario Albertini, Vincenzo Guaiani,
Marzia Migliorelli, Lino Russo, Space
Engineering, Italy
Francesc Coromina, ESA/ESTEC, Italy
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16:30 - 17:50 - CARAVAGGIO
ICSSC 16: Flexible Satellite Resource
Allocation Architectures, Design
Tools, And Technologies
Chair: Nathalie Metzger, Astrium, France
Bandpass Filter With In-Orbit
Reconfigurable Bandwidth
Nikolas Sidiropoulos, Lorenzo Scialino,
Space Engineering, Italy
Petronilo Martin Iglesias, Christoph
Ernst, ESA/ESTEC, The Netherlands
Giuseppe Venanzoni, Antonio Morini,
NOW S.r.l., Italy
Wideband Ku-band MPA
Demonstrator
Eva Maria Gonzalez Esteban, Philippe
Voisin, Bertrand Onillon, Aline Briand,
Thales Alenia Space, France
Prospection of Reconfiguration
Capabilities using Space Qualified
SRAM-based FPGAs for a
Satellite Communications Application
Filip Veljkovic, Teresa Riesgo, Javier
Mora, Eduardo de la Torre, Technical
University of Madrid, Spain
Raúl Regada Sánchez, Luis Berrojo
Valero, Ángel Álvaro Sánchez, Thales
Alenia Space España, Spain
Ka band Communication Receiver
Banks with Centralized LO and Power
Supply
Andrea Suriani, Paolo Ranieri, Roberto
Guerrucci, Paolo Colucci, Giulio
Massimo Perusini, Francesco Barletta,
Thales Alenia Space, Italy
Giovanni King Pace, Altran Italia, Italy
Wednesday, October 16
16:30 - 17:50
16:30 - 17:50 - GIOTTO
ICSSC 17: High-speed RF and Optical
Communications Techniques and
Technologies
Chair: Christophe Guenther, DLR,
Germany
16:30 - 17:50 - GALILEO
Ka 20: Navigation Space & Ground
Segment
Chair: Allen Katz, Linearizer Technology,
USA
Completion of the Small Optical
Transponder for Satellite-Ground
Laser Communication
Demonstrations
Yoshisada Koyama, Maki Akioka, Hideki
Takenaka, Morio Toyoshima, NICT,
Japan
Ionospheric Monitoring for GNSS
Aviation Applications
Roberto Ronchini, Stefano Di Rollo,
Telespazio, Italy
Pier Domenico Tromboni, ENAV, Italy
Salvatore Viviano, ASI, Italy
Performance Evolution of Payload
Data Telemetry for Earth Observation
LEO Satellites
Pantelis-Daniel Arapoglou, Juan
Lizarraga Cubillos, Massimo Bertinelli,
Alberto Ginesi, ESA/ESTEC, The
Netherlands
Concept of Terrestrial Free-Space
Laser Communications Facilities
Aiming for Future Airborne and
Satellite-Based Projects
Morio Toyoshima, Yoshisada Koyama,
Yoshihisa Takayama, Toshihiro Kubooka,
Shinich Yamamoto, Shinich Taira, Maki
Akioka, Isao Nakazawa, Kenji Suzuki,
Hiroyuki Tsuji, Hiroo Kunimori, Hideki
Takenaka, NICT, Japan
Comparison of BB84 and S09
Quantum Key Distribution Protocols
in Space-Space Links
Mate Galambos, Sandor Imre, Laszlo
Bacsardi, Budapest University of
Technology and Ec, Hungary
Performance analysis of Code-ShiftKeying (CSK) with FEC coding on the
satellite multipath channel for GNSS
applications
Andrea Emmanuele, Marco Luise,
University of Pisa, Italy
Francesca Zanier, Massimo Crisci, ESA,
The Netherlands
An Effective Solution for Multipath
and Interference Mitigation in the
GNSS Station
Andrea Dessantis, TeS Teleinformatica e
Sistemi, Italy
Luciano Dicecca, Luciano D’Agristina,
Piero Gabellini, Pasquale Russo, Space
Engineering, Italy
Francisco Amarillo Fernandez, ESA, The
Netherlands
Accurate Synchronization of a GNSS
constellation generator to GPS time
Tiziano Botticchio, Piero Cangini, Carlo
Cornacchini, Tommaso Senni, Space
Engineering, Italy
Francesco Meta, PaoloTabacco, Space
Technology, Italy
Low tracking error Galileo Antenna
for Global Navigation Satellite System
Andrea Dessantis, TeS Teleinformatica e
Sistemi, Italy
Luciano Dicecca, AnnaMaria d’Ippolito,
Nikolas Sidiropoulos, Pasquale Russo,
Space Engineering, Italy
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16:30 - 17:50 - RAFFAELLO
Ka 21: Earth Observation Payloads &
Sensors 2
Chair: Hajime Fukuchi, Tokyo
Metropolitan University, Japan
Meteosat Third Generation: Data
Collection System and Geosar
Payload
Arturo Sorrentino, Mario Cossu, Roberto
Sigismondi, Fabio Ippoliti, Paolo
Noschese, Rocco Raffaele Trento,
Thales Alenia Space, Italy
David Gomez, R. Vilaseca, Mier
Comunicaciones, Spain
Alfonso Camacho, ESA, The
Netherlands
Bernard Robert, J.M. Carrère, Thales
Alenia Space, France
A. Viddal, Behrang Tavaddode, KDA
Norspace, Norway
Ka-Band SAR Instrument with Joint
XTI-ATI Mode Capability
Francisco Lopez-Dekker, Carolina
Tienda, Marwan Younis, German
Aerospace Center, Germany
Christoph Schaefer, Astrium, Germany
Michael Ludwig, ESA, The Netherlands
High Data Rate Transmission for
Earth Observation Missions using
Next Generation Downlink
Subsystems and Modulators
Philipp Wertz, Simon Mauch, FranzJosef Hagmanns, Bernd Hespeler,
Philipp Rieger, Tesat-Spacecom,
Germany
KaRIn RFU (Radio Frequency Unit)
on-going development for the SWOT
Mission
Alain Mallet, Frédéric Robert, Nicolas
Taveneau, Laurent Gatet, Francis
Gizard, Cecile Cheymol, Thierry Lafon,
CNES, France
Thursday, October 17
08:30 - 10:10
08:00 - 17:00 - Foyer - Registration
08:30 - 09:50 - BOTTICELLI
Ka 22: Telecommunication Antennas 3
Chair: Hampton Chan, SSL, USA
Reconfigurable Imaging Antenna FED
by Active Sparse Arrays for Tx/Rx
Multibeam Satcom Applications in Kaband
Nicola Gatti, Alfredo Catalani, Lino
Russo, Space Engineering, Italy
Giovanni Toso, Peter Rinous, ESA, The
Netherlands
Reconfigurable High Power Broadcast
Confocal Antenna in Ku-band
Nicola Gatti, Lino Russo, Space
Engineering, Italy
Peter Rinous, ESA, The Netherlands
Adaptive Antenna System for
Interference Suppression in Satcom
Applications
Alfredo Catalani, Fabio Maggio, Lino
Russo, Space Engineering, Italy
Peter Rinous, ESA, The Netherlands
Ku-Band Fully Electronically Tx/Rx
conformal Array for Mobile
Application
Alfredo Catalani, Mario Albertini, Marzia
Migliorelli, Lino Russo, Space
Engineering, Italy
Giovanni Toso, Piero Angeletti, ESA,
Italy
08:30 - 10:10 - LEONARDO
ICSSC 19: Advances in Satellite
Payload Architectures and Equipment
Chair: Philippe Voisin, Thales Alenia
Space, France
08:30 - 10:10 - CARAVAGGIO
ICSSC 22: Digital Payload
Architecture, Technologies, and
Equipment
Chair: Peter Takats, MDA Corp., USA
Design of High Power Coaxial Filters
for Satellite Antennas and Payloads
Davide Maiarelli, Roberto Mizzoni,
Thales Alenia Space Italy S.p.A., Italy
Efficient Coefficient Store in
Decomposed DFT/FFT Architectures
for On-Board Processors
Adem Coskun, Sevket Cetinsel, Richard
Morling, Izzet Kale, University of
Westminster, United Kingdom
Stephen Brown, Robert Hughes, Astrium
Ltd., United Kingdom
Piero Angeletti, European Space Agency,
The Netherlands
Challenges in the Design of Next
Generation Ka-Band OMUX for Space
Applications
Fabrizio De Paolis, Christoph Ernst,
ESA/ESTEC, The Netherlands
Dual-Polarization Directional Couplers
for Beamforming Applications
Piero Angeletti, Daniele Petrolati, ESA,
The Netherlands
Nikolas Sidiropoulos, Alfredo Catalani,
Space Engineering, Italy
Marco Baldelli, Antonio Morini, Giuseppe
Venanzoni, Università Politecnica delle
Marche, Italy
Development of a Liquid Crystal
Polymer Receiver Module at Ka-band
for Space Applications
Anh-Vu Pham, Manish Mamidanna,
University of California, Davis, USA
Compact Bandpass Filters for Space
Applications Based On TM Mode
Dielectric Resonators
Fabrizio De Paolis, Felice M. Vanin,
ESA/ESTEC, The Netherlands
Luca Pelliccia, RF Microtech, Italy
Fabrizio Cacciamani, Roberto
Sorrentino, University of Perugia, Italy
10:10 - 10:40 - Coffee Break
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A Digital Revisitation of Analog Beamforming Techniques for Satellite
Multibeam Antennas
Piero Angeletti, Marco Lisi, European
Space Agency, The Netherlands
Halfband IIR Filter Alternatives for OnBoard Digital Channelisation
Adem Coskun, Richard Morling, Izzet
Kale, University of Westminster, United
Kingdom
Stephen Brown, Robert Hughes, Astrium
Ltd., United Kingdom
Piero Angeletti, ESA, The Netherlands
Data Processing for Broadband Relay
Satellite Networks - Digital
Architecture and Performance
Evaluation
Bernd Friedrichs, Tesat-Spacecom,
Germany
A Novel DEMUX/MUX Method for
Flexible Digital Channelizers using
Half Band Filters
Fujimura Akinori, Futaba Ejima,
Shigenori Tani, Mitsubishi Electric
Corporation, Japan
Thursday, October 17
08:30 - 09:50
08:00 - 17:00 - Foyer - Registration
08:30 - 09:50 - GIOTTO
Ka 23: Telecommunication Systems 2
Chair: Richard T. Gedney, ViaSat, USA
Novel Multi-band SATCOM Planning
Andrew Anderson, Andrew Hide, Taj
Sturman, Martin Moseley, Astrium Ltd,
United Kingdom
ANTARES Operational System and
Validation Strategy
Paolo Conforto, Gaetano Pastore,
Stefano La Barbera, Giuseppe Grelli,
Thales Alenia Space, Italy
Oscar Del Rio Herrero, J. Diaz-Del Rio,
G. Acar, ESA/ESTEC, The Netherlands
New Generation TLC Anti Interference
Satellite Systems: Technical Solutions
for Commercial Satellites
Vincenzo Schena, Giacinto Losquadro,
Francesco Spognetta, M. Piccinni,
Thales Alenia Space Italia, Italy
Vincenzo Pascale, University of Rome,
Italy
End-to-End Anti-Interference SATCOM
System Architecture: a Simulation
Approach
Vincenzo Schena, Giacinto Losquadro,
Thales Alenia Space Italia, Italy
Jacopo Capolicchio, Vincenzo Pascale,
University of Rome “La Sapienza”, Italy
Multicarrier Satellite HPA Operations
for DBS Services
John L. Walker, Fulvio Bonecchi, SSL,
USA
08:30 - 09:50 - GALILEO
Ka 24: Telecommunication Payloads 3
Chair: Francesc Coromina, ESA, The
Netherlands
An On-Board Resource Management
Scheme for Advanced Meshed DVBRCS Networks
Fabrizio Ceprani, Andrea Fiaschetti,
Gabriele Tamea, Giuseppe Tomasicchio,
Thales Alenia Space, Italy
Francesco Delli Priscoli, Antonio
Pietrabissa, University of Rome
“Sapienza”, Italy
The EDRS-A and EDRS-C Data Relay
Payloads
Nicolas Le Gallou, Benedicte-Marie
Folio, Andrew Murrell, ESA/ESTEC, The
Netherlands
Wolfram Luetke, Alberto Camuso,
Benjamin Wittwer, TESAT Spacecom,
Germany
Marc Leadstone, Jean-Pierre Cousty,
ASTRIUM Services, Germany
Fabio Curreli, OHB Systems AG,
Germany
Flexible Payload Technologies for
Optimising Ka-band Payloads to Meet
Future Business Needs
Nicola Porecki, Glyn Thomas, Andy
Warburton, Nigel Wheatley, Astrium,
United Kingdom Nathalie Metzger,
Astrium SAS, France
Completion of the Small Optical
Transponder for Satellite-Ground
Laser Communication Demonstration
Yoshisada Koyama, Yoshihisa
Takayama, Maki Akioka, Hideki
Takenaka, Yasushi Munemasa, Morio
Toyoshima, NICT, Japan
10:10 - 10:40 - Coffee Break
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Thursday, October 17
10:40 - 12:00 - BOTTICELLI
ICSSC 21: Next Generation L/S/KBand GEO/MEO/LEO Mobile Satellite
Systems, Services, and Technologies
II
Chair: Peter Garland, MDA Corp.,
Canada
Open Loop Adaptive Coding and
Modulation for Mobile Satellite Return
Links
Jesus Arnau, Carlos Mosquera,
University of Vigo, Spain
Low Data Rate and High Data Rate
Technologies for Next Generation
BGAN
Ammar Khan, Paul Febvre, Inmarsat
PLC, United Kingdom
Panos Fines, Wireless Intelligent
Systems Ltd., United Kingdom
Helicopter Propagation Effects and
Countermeasures for Reliable
Bandwidth Efficient Communications
Via Satellite
Ammar Khan, Paul Febvre, Inmarsat
PLC, United Kingdom
Panos Fines, Katerina Christofylaki,
Wireless Intelligent Systems Ltd., United
Kingdom
Timing and Frequency
Synchronisation for Multiuser
Detection on the Return Link of
Interactive Mobile Satellite Networks
Zohair Abu Shaban, Dimitrios
Christopoulos, Bhavani Shankar, SnTUniversity of Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Pantelis-Daniel Arapoglou, ESA, The
Netherlands
10:40 - 12:00
10:40 - 12:00 - LEONARDO
ICSSC 23: High-Capacity Broadband
Satellite Systems, Services, and
Technologies III
Chair: Alberto Ginesi, ESA, The
Netherlands
Linear Precoding Techniques in
Broadband High Throughput
Satellites Systems
Oriol Vidal, Eric Alberty, Patricia Inigo,
ASTRIUM, France
Jérôme Lacan, Jose Radzik, ISAE,
France
Linear Precoding in Multibeam
SatComs: Practical Constraints
Dimitrios Christopoulos, Symeon
Chatzinotas, University of Luxembourg,
Luxembourg
Pantelis-Daniel Arapoglou, ESA, The
Netherlands
On Ground Beam Forming and Multi
User Detection: Proof of Concept
Claudio Campa, Paolo Altamura,
Eugenio Rossini, Aldo Masci, Space
Engineering SpA, Italy
Stefano Cioni, Piero Angeletti, ESAESTEC, The Netherlands
Rosalba Suffritti, Elisabetta Primo,
Mavigex S.r.l., Italy
Stefano Andrenacci, CIRIICT, Italy
Jerome Tronc, EADS Astrium, France
Network-Coding-Based Handover
Scheme for Terabit Satellite Networks
Muhammad Muhammad, DLR - KN /
SAN, Germany
Giovanni Giambene, University of Siena,
Italy
Tomaso de Cola, Matteo Berioli, German
Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany
Nader Alagha, ESA /ESTEC, The
Netherlands
12:00 - 13:30 - Lunch
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10:40 - 12:00 - CARAVAGGIO
ICSSC 24: Advanced Data Relay and
Backbone Systems, Services, and
Technologies
Chair: Pantelis Daniel Arapoglou, ESA,
The Netherlands
Hybrid Optical/RF Payloads for
current and future Datalink
Applications
Wolfram Luetke, Tesat Spacecom GmbH
& Co. KG, Germany
Net-centric Information Architecture
for Satellite-based Sensing
Rajeev Gopal, Charles Cynamon,
Hughes Network Systems, LLC, USA
Cooperative Inertial Stabilization
Control Algorithm of the Fine/Coarse
Tracking System for 40Gbps FreeSpace Optical Communication
Motoaki Shimizu, Yoshihisa Takayama,
Toshiaki Yamashita, Morio Toyoshima,
Kohei Mizutani, NEC, Japan
Commercially Hosted Ka-band AISR
Relay Communications System
Douglas McKinnon, Marc Bjorkman,
Lockheed Martin, USA
Lockheed Martin Space Systems
Company, USA
Thursday, October 17
10:40 - 12:00 - GIOTTO
ICSSC Panel 2: Satellite R&D Status,
Trends and Perspectives
Chair: Massimo C. Comparini,
Telespazio, Italy
Panelists:
- Astrium
- Thales Alenia Space
- OHB
- Telespazio
- ESA
10:40 - 12:00
10:40 - 12:00 - GALILEO
Ka 25: Earth Observation Systems 2 &
Applications
Chair: Fausto Perri, ALTEC, Italy
Application of Common Criteria
security standards in Dual-Use
complex Space Systems: the case of
COSMO-SkyMed di Seconda
Generazione
Daniele Frasca, Giorgio Sciascia, Vittoria
Piantelli, Michelangelo L’Abbate, Thales
Alenia Space, Italy
Dario Sgobbi, Italian Ministry of Defence,
Italy
Manfredi Porfilio, Giuseppe Francesco
De Luca, Agenzia Spaziale Italiana, Italy
Gianluca Scialanga, SELEX ES, Italy
Improvements in Satellite Control
Techniques and Gyro-Less
Operational Capability
Manfredi Porfilio, Fabio D’Amico,
Giuseppe Francesco De Luca, Edmondo
Scorzafava, ASI, Italy
Stefano Serva, Italian Ministry of
Defense, Italy
ChiaraToglia, Luigi Galvagni, Domenico
Cascone, Marco Anania, Annamaria
Nicito, Anna Notarantonio, Giuseppe
Catastini, Giovanni Campolo, Fiorella
Cesaro, Carlo De Libero, Thales Alenia
Space, Italy
Ka-Band Instrument for Ground
Moving Target Indication with Low
PRF Requirement
Christoph Schaefer, Astrium GmbH,
Germany
Stefan Baumgartner, DLR-HR, Germany
New Multi-Frequency SAR Satellite for
Commercial Farming Support Service
Hans Braun, RST Radar Systemtechnik
AG, Switzerland
12:00 - 13:30 - Lunch
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Thursday, October 17
13:30 - 14:30 - BOTTICELLI
ICSSC 25: Payload and Ground
Segment Technologies For Ka, Q/V,
And W-Band
Chair: Andrea Suriani, Thales Alenia
Space, Italy
EHF LNAs and Receivers For Present
Q Band Dual Use Communications
and Future V Band Commercial
Missions
Andrea Suriani, Roberto Guerrucci,
Paolo Ranieri, Mauro Seghettini, JeanChristophe Cayrou, Francesco Vitulli,
Alberto Pandolfi,
Resource Allocation and User
Scheduling for a Multibeam Satellite
with Signal Path Diversity
Jihwan Choi, DGIST, South Korea
Changhee Joo, Ulsan National Institute
of Science, Korea
A Simplified Model for Power
Amplifiers in LEO Satellite
Communication System
He Sun, Tsinghua, China
Zhen Gao, Tsinghua University, China
Wenhua Chen, Tsinghua University,
China
Silong Zhang, Tsinghua University, China
Ming Zhao, Tsinghua University, China
13:30 - 14:50
13:30 - 14:30 - LEONARDO
ICSSC 26: Next Generation L/S/KBand GEO/MEO/LEO Mobile Satellite
Systems, Services, and Technologies
III
Chair: Naoto Kadowaki, NICT, Japan
Design of an Hybrid Ground/Space
Architecture Based on Individual OnBoard Antenna Power Optimization
for The Forward Link of a Multi-Beam
Broadband Satellite System
Vahid Joroughi, Ana Pérez-Neira,
Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya,
Spain
Miguel Angel Vazquez, Bertrand
Devillers, Centre Tecnologic de les
Telecomunicacions de Catalunya, Spain
Link Budget for VoIP in LTE-based
GEO Satellite Mobile Communication
Systems
Zhen Gao, Wen Pan, Ming Zhao, Jing
Wang, Tsinghua University, China
Masahiro Umehira, Ibaraki University,
Japan
Forward Link Interference Mitigation
in Mobile Interactive Satellite Systems
Miguel Angel Vazquez, Pol Henarejos,
Giuseppe Cocco, Centre Tecnologic de
les Telecomunicacions, Spain
Ana Pérez-Neira, Universitat Politècnica
de Catalunya, Spain
13:30 - 14:50 - CARAVAGGIO
Ka 26: Telecommunication Ground
Segment 2
Chair: Fabio Lattanzi, SES Broadband
Services, Luxembourg
A 25 GHz High Power Extended
Interaction Klystron for Reverse Band
Broadcast Satellite Service
Henry Deng, Richard Dobbs, Mark
Hyttinen, Brian Steer, CPI Canada,
Canada
DVB-S2/RCS Mobile Broadband
Verification Test-Bed Relevant Results
Giuseppe D’Angelo, Giuseppe
Chiassarini, Davide Silvi, Fabio Tufi,
Gianmarco Fiabane, Space Engineering,
Italy
Paolo Burzigotti, ESA/ESTEC, The
Netherlands
Bernardino Ceretti, Thales Alenia Space,
Italy
Laser and Ka Satellite
Communication, with Co-Site Ground
Diversity
Paul Christopher, PFC Associates, USA
Deployment and Validation of the
Mission Segment for the Italian
Telecommunications & Propagation
Experimental Campaign via the
Alphasat Q/V-band Experiments
Payload
Carlo Cornacchini, Antonio Vernucci,
Space Engineering, Italy
Giuseppe Codispoti, Enrico Russo, ASI,
Italy
14:50 - 15:30 - LEONARDO PLENARY
Closing Session
Chair: Frank Gargione, Space Systems Consultant, USA, and Riccardo De Gaudenzi, ESA, The Netherlands
- Reflections on the present state of the satellite industry and its future prospects
Roger Rusch, TelAstra, Inc., USA
- Student Best Paper Awards
Michel Bousquet, ISAE, France
- Closing Remarks
Frank Gargione, Satellite Systems Consultant, USA
- Attendance Draw
Jim Dimarogonas, Mitre , USA, and Vice Chair of CMSTC.
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Thursday, October 17
13:30 - 14:50
13:30 - 14:50 - GIOTTO
Ka 27: Telecommunication
Components 3
Chair: Mario Blanco, Mitre, USA
Software Radio for OBP Systems
Implementations: Architecture and
Technology for a Reconfigurable
Platform
Gugliemo Lulli, Francesco Iacomacci,
Giacinto Losquadro, Giuseppe
Tomasicchio, Thales Alenia Space Italia,
Italy
Additive Manufacturing Techniques
for Ka-Band Payloads
Petronilo Martin-Iglesias, Marina DiazMartin, Cesar Espana, Jean-Christophe
Angevain, Piero Angeletti, ESA-ESTEC,
The Netherlands
A Study of Compensation for
Frequency Characteristics on
Broadband Satellite Communication
using CMA Blind Equalizer
Mitsugu Ohkawa, Akira Akaishi, Toshio
Asai, Kazuyoshi Kawasaki, Takashi
Takahashi, NICT/Space Communication
Systems Lab., Japan
Tunable High Q Microwave Photonics
Filter in Ka Band for Channeling
Andrea Dessantis, TeS Teleinformatica e
Sistemi, Italy
Mario Albertini, Space Engineering, Italy
Annamaria Fiorello, Luigi Pierno,
Massimiliano Dispensa, Alberto Secchi,
Selex ES, Italy
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SOCIAL EVENTS
Welcome Cocktail Reception
Tuesday, 15 October, 18:30 - 20:30
The Welcome Cocktail Reception takes place at the Pavilion at the Ground Floor of the Hilton Florence Metropole in the
evening of Tuesday, October 15.
It is included in the Conference Registration fee and Companion Registration fee.
The Welcome Cocktail Reception is sponsored by Telespazio and Thales Alenia Space.
2013 AIAA Aerospace Communications Award Luncheon
Wednesday, October 16, 12:20 - 14:20
The prestigious AIAA Aerospace Communications Award is presented for an outstanding contribution in the field of
aerospace communications.
The award will be presented on Wednesday, October 16, 2013 and will take place during the luncheon at the Pavilion,
Ground Floor.
The luncheon is included in the Conference Registration fee. Additional tickets are available for purchase
for Euro 50.00.
Conference Dinner
Wednesday, 16 October, 20:00 - 23:00
The Joint Conference Dinner takes place on Wednesday, October 16 at Villa Castelletti.
Villa Castelletti is one of the most beautiful luxury villas in Italy. This estate has its origins in the 14th century and it is one
of the oldest villas in Tuscany. Its wonderful altana (covered roof terrace) with a panoramic view over Florence distinguishes
it from the Medicean villas and most of the Chianti villas
This event, included in the Conference Registration and Companion Registration fees, is a must for all conference attendees
and their companions and offers an opportunity to mingle, revel, and relax after the long day spent on the technical issues
and concerns.
A bus service from and to the Conference site is organized for registered attendees.
It is included in the Conference Registration fee and Companion Registration fee.
Additional tickets are available for purchase at Euro 75.00.
The Conference Dinner is sponsored by FGM Events.
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GENERAL INFORMATION
Venue
The 2013 Joint Conference will be held at the Hilton Florence Metropole Hotel, via del Cavallaccio 36, 50142 Firenze,
tel.+39 55 78711, www.hiltonflorence.com
Language
The working language of the Joint Conference is English.
Badges
All delegates must wear the badge at all Joint Conference events.
Help Desk
Should you encounter any problems or have any questions during the Conference, please visit the Conference Help Desk
located at Ground Floor (adjacent to the Registration Desk) and someone from the Conference Staff will assist you.
Timing of Technical Paper Presentations
All presentations will be 20 minutes in length. Session Chairs have been instructed to strictly maintain this schedule.
Speakers and co-chairs should be in the conference room at least 10 minutes before the start of the session.
Meals
All luncheons and coffee breaks during the Conference on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, the Cocktail Reception on
Tuesday and the Conference Dinner on Wednesday are included in the Conference registration fee.
Lunch and coffee breaks on Monday are included in the Colloquium registration fee.
Accompanying Persons
The registered Companions are entitled to attend the Cocktail Reception on Tuesday and the Conference Dinner on
Wednesday.
Additional tickets for the Conference Dinner (Wednesday) are available for sale for Euro 75.00.
Messages and Information
Messages will be recorded and posted on a bulletin board in the registration area. It is not possible to page
the conference attendees.
Internet Access during Conference
Wireless Internet access is complimentary in all public areas of the hotel.
Insurance
The Conference Organizers will not assume any responsibility whatsoever for damage or injury to person or property during
the Conference. Participants are recommended to arrange for their personal travel and health insurance.
Smoking Policy
Out of courtesy to others, smoking is not permitted in any sessions.
Restrictions
Audio or video recording of any session during this conference is prohibited.
Conference Questionnaire
We would appreciate your feedback on how to improve future conferences.
A brief questionnaire is included with your registration materials. As an inducement for providing your thoughts, a 16GB
Nexus 7 tablet will be given away at the Closing Ceremony in a random drawing from among the completed questionnaires
returned. You must be present to win. Members of the Organizing Committees and Conference Staff are, of course, not
eligible to win. Even those who are ineligible or who cannot be present to win are encouraged to complete and return the
questionnaire.
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REGISTRATION INFORMATION
The Registration Desk will be open for on-site registration and material pick-up for registered delegates:
• on Sunday, October 13, 2013 from 16:00 to 18:00,
• on Monday, October 14, 2013 from 8:00 to 17:00,
• on Tuesday, October 15, 2013 from 8:00 to 17:00,
• and the following days during the Conference hours.
Registration Fees
2013 Joint Conference
Colloquium
Poster Session
Companion
Before July 31, 2013
Euro 800.00
Euro 150.00
Euro 300.00
Euro 100.00
After July 31, 2013
Euro 950.00
Euro 180.00
Euro 300.00
Euro 120.00
Group Registrations
Discounts for Registrants from the same company:
• 3 to 6 registrants from the same company 10% discount,
• 7 to more registrants from the same company 15% discount,
For the group registration, the company must provide the names of the registrants in advance along with the pertinent
information to the Conference Organization at [email protected].
The company will be billed and payment must be made by bank transfer free of bank charges.
The Conference Registration Fee includes:
Access to Joint Conference sessions,
Access to 11th BroadSky Workshop,
Proceedings of the 19th Ka and Broadband Communications Conference (printed book),
CD ROM of Joint Conference Proceedings,
Coffee breaks on Tue, Oct. 15 - Thu, Oct. 17,
Award Luncheon on Wed, Oct. 16,
Lunch on Tue, Oct. 15 and Thu, Oct. 17,
Cocktail Reception on Tue, Oct. 15,
Conference Dinner on Wed, Oct. 16
The Colloquium fee includes:
• Access to the Colloquium session on Monday, Oct. 14,
• Printed copy of the presentations as provided by the Speakers,
• Coffee breaks,
• Lunch.
It is possible to register for the Colloquium without registering for the Joint Conference.
The Companion registration fee includes:
• Cocktail Reception on Tue, Oct. 15,
• Conference Dinner on Wed, Oct. 16
Please be aware that registration for the Joint Conference DOES NOT imply a room reservation which must be made
separately.
Additional Material (in addition to full registration fee):
• Proceedings of the 19th Ka Band Conference (printed book): Euro 200.00.
• CD ROM of the Joint Conference Proceedings: Euro 150.00.
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Payment
The payment can be made by:
• Credit Card (VISA - MasterCard - American Express)
• via the Conference web site (PayPal Service) after
logging in with your registration credentials,
• on-site (during the Conference).
• Bank Transfer (To prevent fraud, the account information is not published. Please contact the Conference Organization
at [email protected] for bank transfer instructions).
Cancellation and Refund Policy
Registration fee (75%) can be refunded only if notification is given in writing before August 1, 2013. After this date, the
registration fee will not be refunded and the Conference Proceedings (book and CD-ROM) will be mailed to the registrant.
All refunds will be processed after the Conference.
Substitutions
Substitutions may be made at any time for confirmed registrants. Notice of substitution must be made in writing and sent
to Organizing Committee at [email protected]
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