Social networks has quickly sprung the reliance on the Internet mainly in the field of mobile communication with the advent of smart-phones. People have become much more reliant on accessing the Internet wherever they are, since the Internet has attained a key role for managing personal information. In fact, mail and PIM services, document storage & online editing, multimedia streaming, data synchronization & backup, are taking the advantage of the newborn Cloud platforms offered by the “Majors” companies. However, the high demand of network resources is one of the weakness points for Cloud based mobile services. Terrestrial wireless networks and satellite communications have been said to be the digital divide solution in order to access online resources ubiquitously. However, such communication technologies, analyzed in their heterogeneity, have several disadvantages if compared to wired ones, in terms of throughput, access delay and reliability: the final user perceives these disadvantages as a lower level of satisfaction/performance, when services are consumed through a wireless technology instead of a wired one. Protocols and communications systems shall adapt to the new trend of producing and consuming information via Cloud based systems (computers, laptops, smartphones, smart-TVs, smart-devices). This special session aims at exploring the future research activities in satellite communications, facing off the ongoing revolution, induced by Cloud computing, in the modalities of documents’ storage, sharing, and distribution.

For submitting a paper on this special session, please follow the intructions provided by the Author's Kit and Submission Guidelines.

Satellites for Aeronautical Communications

To be added