Conferences
Conference: Tuesday, March 16 - Wednesday, March 17
National Harbor Convention Center
MSUA-7 will once again be co-located with SATELLITE 2010!
MSUA-7 and SATELLITE 2010 join forces to bring you two conferences held at one time, in one place. You will have access to twice the experts, twice the networking and twice the knowledge!
Mobile Satellite Users Conference brings together operators, service providers, equipment manufacturers and users to discuss all of the new MSS technologies and current market conditions. The Mobile Satellite Users Conference will focus on merger and acquisition activity, mobile broadband, comms-on-the-move, ancillary terrestrial component, the distribution debate and much more...a perfect complement to the SATELLITE 2010 Conference!
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2nd International ICST Conference on Personal Satellite Services
4-5 February 2010, Rome, Italy
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SCOPE
The next generation satellite services will cater to the demands of personal services by bringing the satellite terminals directly to the hands of the user, hence providing personal satellite services. 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 wide audiences, and large numbers of geographically dispersed people. It is evident that satellites will play a complementary, but essential role in delivering multimedia and telecommunication services to infrastructure-less regions where the terrestrial high-bandwidth communication infrastructures are practically unreachable. In such a context we introduce a new category claimed to be defined as Personal Satellite Services (PSATS) 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 fuelling accelerated research in PSATS enabled systems which we cover at this conference. The services enabled by PSATS not only cover the requirements of an ordinary citizen but also provide personal defense services such as tracking, visualization and virtualization in a highly secure communication environment.
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 related to the satellite communications, networking, technology, systems and applications.
There will be three tracks and three special sessions at PSATS 2010.