| Bibtype | Inproceedings |
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| Bibkey | Niehoefer/etal/2013a |
| Author | Niehoefer, Brian and Subik, Sebastian and Wietfeld, Christian |
| Title | The CNI Open Source Satellite Simulator based on OMNeT++ |
| Booktitle | 6th OMNeT++ Workshop |
| Address | Cannes, France |
| Abstract | Satellite services (e.g. Internet-over-Satellite or GPS)
are getting more and more important in our lives, whereby the operational area is still growing. To guarantee those services, reliable simulation tools are necessary to scale and validate actual and future satellite systems. Therefore, this paper gives an overview about development, functionalities and benefit of a satellite simulation framework which is already available for download, called the Open Source Satellite Simulator (OS3). The use of OMNeT++ in combination with the INET framework allows the release under public license as well as a platform independent implementation. To provide an accurate and Comfortable tool, OS3 features a Graphical User Interface, live weather data integration, high esolution altitude data, accurate satellite movements, different visualization options, channel modeling and much more. In order to ensure the correctness of simulation re- sults, numerous xperimental and simulation tests were con- ducted. A comparison between satellite position and ovement predictions from OS3 and the corresponding values provided by a DLR (German Aerospace Center) hosted website proves the accuracy of the satellite movement simulation. The experimental alidation was done by comparing simulated channel characteristics with actual measurements. The result is not only a benchmark of the accuracy of the simulation, it also proves the capability of OS3 to analyze existing or future satellite systems. Additionally, a simulation for VoIP transmission over a satellite link was implemented to show how OS3 can be applied to specific use cases.Satellite services (e.g. Internet-over-Satellite or GPS) are getting more and more important in our lives, whereby the operational area is still growing. To guarantee those services, reliable simulation tools are necessary to scale and validate actual and future satellite systems. Therefore, this paper gives an overview about development, functionalities and benefit of a satellite simulation framework which is already available for download, called the Open Source Satellite Simulator (OS3). The use of OMNeT++ in combination with the INET framework allows the release under public license as well as a platform independent implementation. To provide an accurate and Comfortable tool, OS3 features a Graphical User Interface, live weather data integration, high esolution altitude data, accurate satellite movements, different visualization options, channel modeling and much more. In order to ensure the correctness of simulation re- sults, numerous xperimental and simulation tests were con- ducted. A comparison between satellite position and ovement predictions from OS3 and the corresponding values provided by a DLR (German Aerospace Center) hosted website proves the accuracy of the satellite movement simulation. The experimental alidation was done by comparing simulated channel characteristics with actual measurements. The result is not only a benchmark of the accuracy of the simulation, it also proves the capability of OS3 to analyze existing or future satellite systems. Additionally, a simulation for VoIP transmission over a satellite link was implemented to show how OS3 can be applied to specific use cases. |
| Month | 3 |
| Year | 2013 |
| Projekt | SFB876-B4 |
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