An open source satellite network simulator for quality based multimedia broadband traffic management

Satellite communications are becoming increasingly important due to their use in new application fields and their integration with new generation networks. A crucial aspect that slows down the development of satellite communication is still the cost of performing research: in fact, the implementation and test of new algorithms and technologies requires a costly infrastructure, that rarely is available for being used for research purposes. For this reason we propose in this paper an open source simulator modeled for a satellite network for broadband internet service access. To test its functionality, consider the congestion problem and QoS optimization for multimedia broadband traffic management.