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MERIOCHAUD, Antoine, 03/09/2016 02:10 PM


1. Specifications of a satellite link

The transmission channel in the case of a bidirectional link with a geostationary satellite is not comparable to terrestrial links for which TCP was originally designed. Satellite link is mainly different from terrestrial links in terms of latency, asymmetry of the available bandwidth and bit error rate (BER).

1.1. Latency

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1.2. Bandwidth

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1.3. Bit error rate

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