One of the pioneer bands identified in Europe for the early deployment of 5G systems is the 3400-3800 MHz (C-band). This band is already used throughout Europe (and elsewhere) for both Fixed Service (i.e. radio relays) and Fixed Satellite Service (FSS), mainly Earth stations. Coexistence with broadband mobile services should be investigated to properly identify operational conditions in real environments. Measurements in literature are lacking for `Very Small Aperture Terminal' (VSAT), whose location may not be known and that represents an important class of FSS terminals worldwide. This contribution gives an account of an experimental campaign aimed at determining the conditions of co-channel and adjacent-channel coexistence between LTE transmission and satellite reception by means of a consumer-grade VSAT receiver. The experimental campaign comprised on-air measurements implemented at the Ministry of Economic Development (MISE) premises of the National Radio-electrical Emissions Centre (CNCER) in Rome, complemented by tests performed with Plum Consulting and Huawei in their laboratory near Milan. Results show that coexistence is possible provided that proper separation distances for co-frequency coexistence are determined while adjacent channel coexistence is less critical. The characteristics of VSAT equipment studied by lab tests show a relatively small variation in selectivity between different receivers.

Current moIecuIar bioIogy techniques were deveIoped primarily for characterization of single genes, not entire genomes, and, as such, are not ideally suited to high resolution analysis of complex traits and the moiecular genetics of very large populations.Despite rapid progress in the human genome project effort, there is little doubt that radicaIIy new conceptual approaches are needed before routine whole genome-based analyses can be undertaken by both basic research and clinical laboratories.Physical mapping of genomes, using restriction endonucleases, has played a major role in the identification and characterizing various loci, for example, by aiding clone contig formation and by characterizing genetic lesions.Restriction maps provide precise genomic distances, unlike ordered sequencebased landmarks such as Sequence Tagged Sites (ST%), that are essential for optimizing the efficiency of sequencing efforts, and for determining the spatial relationships of specific loci.When compared to tedious hybridization-based fingerprinting approaches, ordered restriction maps offer relatively unambiguous clone characterization that is useful in contig formation, establishment of minimal tiling paths for sequencing, and preliminary characterization of sequence lesions.In addition, such maps provide a useful scaffold for sequence assembly, often critical in the final sequence finishing stage.Despite the broad applications of restriction maps, the associated techniques for their generation have changed little over the last ten years, primarily because they still utilize electrophoretic analysis.To help overcome these shortcomings, our laboratory developed the first practical non-electrophoretic genomic mapping approach, Optical Mapping, to meet this need.Optical Mapping is a single molecule methodology for the rapid production of ordered restriction