TY - JOUR AU - Marchese, Mario AB - Copyright # 2003 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. GUEST EDITORIAL The third paper QoS-oriented Traffic management in multimedia satellite systems by Nicolas Courville describes the different buffer management techniques for a multimedia satellite system with ATM based onboard switch. The paper concludes that the combination of the Hot Spot Push Out (HSPO) and Early Packet Discard (EPD) methods, and Sharing with Maximum Queue (SMXQ) method can be used in the switch buffer, respectively, for non-real-time and real-time traffic. Following that Nicolae Iuoras, Tho Le-Ngoc, Mohamed Ashour, and Tallal Elshabrawy in the fourth paper An IP-based satellite communication system architecture for interactive multimedia services describe a broadband satellite/terrestrial IP networks and Dynamic Capacity Allocation (DCA) strategies based on Combined Free and Demand Assignment Multiple Access (CFDAMA) scheme supporting DVB-RCS and DiffServ to achieve short delay and different QoS requirements. This paper concludes with simulation results showing that it is possible to achieve a high network load yet maintain service differentiation for various traffic classes with both short-range dependent (SRD) and long-range dependent (LRD) traffic inputs. In the fifth paper Dynamics of TCP over BoD satellite networks by Mahesh Sooriyabandara and Gorry Fairhurst, the Bandwidth on Demand (BoD) mechanisms defined TI - Special Issue on Satellite IP Quality of Service JF - International Journal of Satellite Communications and Networking DO - 10.1002/sat.764 DA - 2003-07-01 UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/wiley/special-issue-on-satellite-ip-quality-of-service-CYlU1LFQLc SP - 299 EP - 301 VL - 21 IS - 4‐5 DP - DeepDyve ER -