Description
The present activity shall design and implement the S-band common core hub, including RF and baseband functionalities. All the hubcommon modules including transmitter and receiver, network and resource management, MAC protocols, data encapsulation andmultiplexing, etc? shall be designed and developed. On the other hand, service-dependent functionalities, like userauthentication, service configuration, accounting... will be addressed in additional activities (platforms development). At theend of the activity, the developed hub will be at a pre-operational stage, ready for further integration in the service platformswith specific service-dependent modules and applications. For the provision of broadcast and interactive services tohandheld/home end-users as well as broadcast and data acquisition services to vehicular users.