Personal Satellite Services. Next-Generation Satellite Networking and Communication Systems 6th International Conference, PSATS 2014, Genoa, Italy, July 28–29, 2014, Revised Selected Papers

This book constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Personal Satellite Services, PSATS 2014, held in Genova, Italy, in July 2014.
The 10 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and present the latest advances in the next generation satellite networking and communication systems.

A Fast Star Pattern Recognition Algorithm for Spacecraft Navigation.- Performance Evaluation of HTTP and SPDY over a DVB-RCS Satellite Link with Different BoD Schemes.- Telecommunication system for spacecraft deorbiting devices.- Quality of Service and Message Aggregation in Delay-Tolerant Sensor Internetworks.- Virtual bricks for DTN satellite communications research and education.- Research Challenges in Nanosatellite-DTN Networks.- A Dynamic Trajectory Control Algorithm for Improving the Probability of End-to-End Link Connection in Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Networks.- Hybrid Satellite-Aerial-Terrerial Networks for Public safety.- Satellites, UAVs, Vehicles and Sensors for an Integrated Delay Tolerant ad Hoc Network.- Smartphones Apps Implementing a Heuristic Joint Coding for Video Transmissions over Mobile Networks.