SERVICE SCENARIOS AND SYSTEM ARCHITECTURE FOR SATELLITE UMTS IP BASED NETWORK (SATIN)

This paper describes the services, market, business and architecture analysis done in the EU IST personal and mobile satellite project SATIN for S-UMTS. The service suitable for the S-UMTS is identified through market analysis and the profitability of the identified service is investigated through business analysis. Based on the profitable services and the intermediate module and terminal complexity and cost, the SUMTS system architecture is selected. As part of the SATIN architecture scenario, the intermediate module concept is discussed as well.