<p align=″justify″>The world wide telecommunications sector has converged to a point where wideband satellite access is considered to be the sole technology for the next generation of telecommunications and multimedia services for global coverage. In the past Very Small Aperture Terminal (VSAT) based satellite systems had revolutionized satellite services enabling to have satellites accessible at homes and offices. In the near future, the next generation satellite services will cater the demands of personal services by bringing the satellite terminals directly to the hands of the user hence providing satellite personal services directly to the user. Technological advances in satellite communications have made it possible to bring such value added satellite services directly to the user by reducing the overall cost as well as addressing many technological challenges such as achieving mobility, having miniaturized antennas and terminal sizes, and providing high data rate links. With the unique broadcast nature and ubiquitous coverage of satellite networks, the synergy between satellite and terrestrial networks provides immense opportunities for disseminating wideband multimedia services to a wide range of audiences over large numbers of geographically dispersed people. It is evident that the satellite will play a complementary, but essential, role in delivering multimedia and telecommunication services to infrastructure–less region where the terrestrial high–bandwidth communication infrastructures are practically unreachable. In such a context we introduce a new category claimed to be defined as <span style=″font–weight: bold; font–style: italic;″>Personal Satellite Systems</span> (<span style=″font–weight: bold;″>PSatS</span>) by means of extending the satellite services directly to the user for personal services such as communications, multimedia and location identification. Such opportunities are also currently fueling accelerated research in <span style=″font–weight: bold;″>PSatS</span> enabled systems which we cover in this conference. The services enabled by <span style=″font–weight: bold;″>PSatS</span> not only cover the requirements of a standard citizen but also provide defense personal services such as tracking, visualization and virtualization in a highly secure communications environment.<br>The conference will explore such techniques, and aims to serve as a premier international forum for discussions, bringing together academic and industrial researchers, practitioners, and students interested in future techniques relating to the satellite communications, networking, technology, systems, and applications.<br></p> <p><span style=″font–weight: bold;″>The conference will consist of diverse technical tracks:</span><br></p> <ul><li style=″font–weight: bold;″>General Track</li><blockquote> <p>– Satellite antenna designs, modulation and coding<br>– Synchronization, equalization and channel estimation<br>– Channel modeling for satellite communications<br>– MIMO communications for satellites<br>– Interference detection and mitigation techniques<br>– DVB and broadband access technologies<br>– Networking topologies for broadband over satellite links<br>– IP over satellite and QoS support<br>– Reliable multicast protocols, transport protocol over satellite<br>– Onboard switching and processing Delay tolerant networking<br>– Radio resource management and packet scheduling<br>– Power control, hand–over issues and call admission control<br>– Emerging standardizations and issues<br>– Satellite navigation systems, services and tracking<br>– Real–time multimedia streaming, broadcast/multicasting<br>– Security related issues of satellite communications</p> </blockquote><li style=″font–weight: bold;″><span class=″lighttd″ style=″font–weight: bold;″>Value added services and future systems</span></li><blockquote> <p>– Voice, broadband Internet, DVB, positioning<br>– Infrastructure and network management<br>– IP over satellite and heterogeneous networks<br>– Quality of Service (QoS) issues<br>– Ka–band and emerging frequency bands<br>– Earth observation<br>– Emergency service assistance</p> </blockquote><li style=″font–weight: bold;″>Convergence of Satellite System and Emerging Technologies</li><blockquote> <p>– Convergence with Terrestrial, Wireless Access, and Sensor Networks<br>– Cooperative/distributed network architectures<br>– Quantum satellite communications<br>– Ground terminals with Cognitive Radio functionalities<br>– Convergence with optical networks</p> </blockquote></ul>
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