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Objectives
The original objective of this activity was to design and develop a software-only based Testbed implementing and fully validating key functions of the DVB-RCS2 standard.
The Testbed design and implementation should provide manufacturers and researchers with a validated reference design of DVB-RCS2 sub-systems implementing key RCS2 functions. The reference design focuses on the RCS2 terminal functions. The hub functionality is emulated as required for the validation of the terminal functions.
As an extension to the original contract, the testbed is upgraded to include also the physical layer, on the forward as well as the return link.
The reference design should be made available to RCS terminal manufacturers. The project should also provide feedback on the RCS2 standard and the RCS2 Guidelines documents to the TM-RCS group.
Challenges
The RSC2 standard and RCS2 Guidelines documents had not reached stable versions at the early phases of the project. Many questions came up at the detailed level that were not yet well covered in the documents.
Also, working in a distributed environment, with different operating systems, caused additional challenges (but finally resulted in a more flexible solution).
Plan
The main milestones in the project are:
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Meeting, milestone |
Schedule |
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Testbed Requirements Review |
21.09.2011 |
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Preliminary Design Review |
08.12.2011 |
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Critical Design Review |
04.06.2012 |
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Testbed Acceptance Review |
06.06.2013 |
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Final review |
02.07.2013 |
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Final Presentation |
17.09.2013 |
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Phase2: |
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Baseline requirements Review |
19.05.2015 |
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Preliminary Design Review |
18.06.2015 |
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Critical Design Review |
15.03.2016 |
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Acceptance Test and Final Presentation |
29.05.2016 |
Current Status
The project was started in June 2011. Final Review for phase 1 (software based only) was completed in July 2013.
Second phase, to include physical layer into the setup, was started in April 2015, and is planned completed in April 2016.
