The performance of the FODA/IBEA satellite access scheme measured on the ITALSAT satellite

This paper briefly describes the FODA/IBEA satellite access scheme and presents part of the experimental results of two studies carried out both on real-time and non real-time traffic crossing a satellite network accessed with the FODA/IBEA access scheme. The jitter affecting the real time data is studied and a solution indicated, while for non real-time data the performance of the capacity assignment algorithm is shown. Tests were carried on the ITALSAT satellite, by using the Multi-application Traffic Generator system [Celandroni et al (2)] to generate a traffic load according to the characteristics required.