“…This module is a post-processing module in charge of computing the transmission link performance mainly in terms of link availability, bit rate, error rates (BER or PER), delay, jitter, average and maximum packet sizes in order to characterize the application-level QoS, but also in terms of IP throughput, IP traffic characteristics (Tou et al, 2008) (inter-packet delay, IP delay variation, one way delay with maximum and minimum values, packet losses), and IP over frame efficiency over the DVB-S2 (in connection with the encapsulation overhead and the MODCODs selected, and more generally the implemented adaptive strategy), as well as in terms of attenuation prediction errors. Some performance figures related to VoIP over DVB-S2 links have been made available in recent studies , and could serve as a reference basis for the present project, in particular regarding a comparison between GSE and MPE/ULE encapsulation schemes.…”