ICARUS

Project

ICARUS

Development Team

Telefonica, Swiss PTT, Telia

Funding

UNISOURCE, EUTELSAT

Use

Eperiments with Eb/No, field trials 1Q95.

Participation in ISABREL/BRAIN/IBER SummerSchool (RACE II)

Status

3 Terminals used at various times 1994/95.

Transponder

Eutelsat II F5 / Hispasat

Access

Aloha/FDMA

Speed

34 Mbps (PDH) Eutelsat or 2 Mbps Hispasat

QPSK modulation with 3/4 FEC

Terrestrial Net Interface

LAN Emulation / ATM

B-ISDN Signalling?

No

Terrestrial Phys Interface

802.3 LAN Emulation / AAL Circuit Emulation

Notes

Experiments have been conducted using concatenated RS coding and looking at the effect of variation in Eb/No at 34 Mbps. Also experiments to look at the use of G.826 Block Performance Measurements.

Application testing has also been performed using a variety of applications, to get preliminary results and experience:

  1. Video Telephony (based on H.261)
  2. MPEG-2 over AAL-1 (as a part of the EU625 VADIS and EUREKA projects)
  3. 34 Mbps Video Codec (over an emulated satellite link)
  4. MPEG-1 video retrieval
  5. 802.3 LAN Emulation

List of projects

Gorry Fairhurst - ERG home page