Since their conception satellites have offered the promise of more capacity for terrestrial communication systems or to exploit their inherent multicasting and broadcasting capabilities. Recent advances in satellite technology have resulted in the integration of satellite and terrestrial networks to meet the quality and capacity requirements of modern day communication systems.Network and Protocol Architectures for Future Satellite Systems reviews the emerging technologies being deployed in the networking architectures being proposed in the framework of the Future Internet. Novel protocols such as Multi Path TCP MPTCP and networking trends such as Information Centric Networking ICN are described in depth and their application in segments deploying both satellite and terrestrial networks are illustrated.This is also the first monograph to review contentbased networking extensively.