Satellite Communications Payload and System (Wiley - IEEE)

COVER
TITLE PAGE
COPYRIGHT PAGE
CONTENTS
PREFACE
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
ABBREVIATIONS
CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION
	1.1 End-to-End Satellite Communications System
	1.2 What the Book is About
	1.3 Channel and Channel Sharing
	1.4 Payload
	1.5 Ground Transmitter and Ground Receiver
	1.6 System Example
	1.7 Conventions
	1.8 Book Sources
	1.9 Summary of Rest of Book
	References
PART I PAYLOAD
	CHAPTER 2 PAYLOADfS ON-ORBIT ENVIRONMENT
		2.1 What Determines Environment
		2.2 On-Orbit Environment and Mitigation by Spacecraft Bus
		2.3 General Effects of Mitigated Environment on Payload
		References
	CHAPTER 3 ANTENNA BASICS AND SINGLE-BEAM ANTENNA
		3.1 Introduction
		3.2 Examples of Single-Beam Antenna
		3.3 General Antenna Concepts
		3.4 Reflector-Antenna Basics
		3.5 Steerable Single-Beam Antennas
		3.6 Reflector Technology for Single-Beam Antennas
		3.7 Horn for Single-Beam Antennas
		3.8 Other Antenna Components
		3.9 Antenna Pointing Error
		3.10 Antenna Autotrack
		3.11 Reflector-Antenna Inefficiencies
		3.12 Testing
		References
	CHAPTER 4 PAYLOAD-INTEGRATION ELEMENTS
		4.1 Introduction
		4.2 Coaxial Cable Versus Waveguide
		4.3 Coaxial Cable
		4.4 Waveguide
		4.5 Other Integration Elements
		4.6 Redundancy Configurations
		4.7 Impedance Mismatch and Scattering Parameters
		References
	CHAPTER 5 MICROWAVE FILTER
		5.1 Introduction
		5.2 Basics of Analog Filters
		5.3 Basics of Specifically Microwave Filters
		5.4 Technology for Bandpass Filters
		5.5 Filter Units
		5.6 Bandpass Filter Specification
		References
	CHAPTER 6 LOW-NOISE AMPLIFIER AND FREQUENCY CONVERTER
		6.1 Introduction
		6.2 LNAs and Frequency Converters in Payload
		6.3 Nonlinearity of LNA and Frequency Converter
		6.4 Noise Figure
		6.5 Low-Noise Amplifier
		6.6 Frequency Converter
		6.7 Receiver
		6.A Appendix. Formula for Integrating Phase Noise Spectrum
		References
	CHAPTER 7 PREAMPLIFIER AND HIGH-POWER AMPLIFIER
		7.1 Introduction
		7.2 HPA Concepts and Terms
		7.3 Traveling-Wave Tube Amplifier Versus Solid-State Power Amplifier
		7.4 Traveling-Wave Tube Subsystem
		7.5 Solid-State Power Amplifier
		References
	CHAPTER 8 PAYLOADfS ANALOG COMMUNICATIONS PARAMETERS
		8.1 Introduction
		8.2 Gain Variation with Frequency
		8.3 Phase Variation with Frequency
		8.4 Channel Bandwidth
		8.5 Phase Noise
		8.6 Frequency Stability
		8.7 Spurious Signals from Frequency Converter
		8.8 HPA Nonlinearity
		8.9 Near-Carrier Spurious Signals from HPA Subsystem
		8.10 Stability of Gain and Power-Out
		8.11 Equivalent Isotropically Radiated Power
		8.12 Figure of Merit G/Ts
		8.13 Saturation Flux Density
		8.14 Self-Interference
		8.15 Passive Intermodulation Products
		8.A Appendices
		References
	CHAPTER 9 MORE ANALYSES FOR PAYLOAD DEVELOPMENT
		9.1 Introduction
		9.2 How to Deal with Noise Figure
		9.3 How to Make and Maintain Payload Performance Budgets
		9.4 HPA Topics
		9.5 What Nonlinearity does to Modulated Signal
		9.6 Simulating Payload Performance as a Function of Gaussian Random Variables
		References
	CHAPTER 10 PROCESSING PAYLOAD AND FLEXIBLE PAYLOAD
		10.1 Introduction
		10.2 Processing Operations
		10.3 Non-Regenerative Processing Payloads
		10.4 Regenerative Payloads
		10.5 Communications Parameters of Digital Processing Payload
		References
	CHAPTER 11 MULTI-BEAM ANTENNA AND PHASED ARRAY
		11.1 Introduction
		11.2 MBA Introduction
		11.3 Reflector for MBA or Contoured Beam and Configuration of Feeds
		11.4 Horn and Feed Assembly for GEO
		11.5 Location of Radiating Elements in Offset-Fed Reflector MBA
		11.6 Single-Feed-Per-Beam MBA
		11.7 Phased Array Introduction
		11.8 Radiating Element of Phased Array
		11.9 Beam-Forming Network
		11.10 Applications of Phased Array
		11.11 Beam-Hopping
		11.12 Amplification of Phased Array
		11.13 Phased Array Pointing Error
		11.14 Mutual Coupling in Radiating-Element Cluster
		11.15 Testing MBA
		References
PART II END-TO-END SATELLITE COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM
	CHAPTER 12 DIGITAL COMMUNICATIONS THEORY
		12.1 Introduction
		12.2 Signal Representation
		12.3 Filtering in General
		12.4 White Gaussian Noise
		12.5 End-To-End Communications System
		12.6 Bit Manipulation
		12.7 Modulation Introduction
		12.8 Memoryless Modulation
		12.9 Maximum-Likelihood Estimation
		12.10 Demodulation for Memoryless Modulation
		12.11 Modulation with Memory
		12.12 Maximum-Likelihood Sequence Estimation
		12.13 Demodulation for Modulation with Memory
		12.14 Bit Recovery
		12.15 Inter-Symbol Interference
		12.16 SNR, Es/N0, and Eb/N0
		12.A Sketch of Proof that Pulse Transform and Signal Spectrum areRelated for Memoryless Modulation
		References
	CHAPTER 13 SATELLITE COMMUNICATIONS STANDARDS
		13.1 Introduction
		13.2 Background
		13.3 Application Examples of First-Generation Standards
		13.4 Second-Generation DVB Communications Standards
		13.5 Satmode Communications Standard
		References
	CHAPTER 14 COMMUNICATIONS LINK
		14.1 Introduction
		14.2 Primary Information Sources
		14.3 Link Availability
		14.4 Signal Power on Link
		14.5 Noise Level on Link
		14.6 Interference on Link
		14.7 End-To-End C/(N0 + I0)
		14.8 Link Budget
		14.9 Implementation Loss Item in Link Budget
		References
	CHAPTER 15 PROBABILISTIC TREATMENT OF DOWNLINK MARGIN FOR MULTI-BEAM PAYLOAD
		15.1 Introduction
		15.2 Multi-Beam-Downlink Payload Specifications
		15.3 Analysis Method
		15.4 Analysis Assumptions
		15.5 Repeater-Caused Variation of C and C/Iself and Nominal Value
		15.6 Combining Antenna-Caused Variation and Nominal Value into Repeater-Caused Variation
		15.7 Combining Atmosphere-Caused Variation into Payload-Caused Variation
		15.8 Optimizing Multi-Beam-Downlink Payload Specified on Link Availability
		15.9 Appendix. Iteration Details for Optimizing Multi-Beam Payload Specified on Link Availability
	CHAPTER 16 MODEL OF END-TO-END COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM
		16.1 Introduction
		16.2 Considerations for Both Software Simulation and Hardware Emulation
		16.3 Additional Considerations for Simulation
		16.4 Additional Considerations for Emulation
		References
PART III SATELLITE COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEMS
	CHAPTER 17 FIXED AND BROADCAST SATELLITE SERVICES
		17.1 Introduction
		17.2 Satellite Television
		17.3 Regulations in General
		17.4 Fixed Satellite Service
		17.5 Broadcast Satellite Service
		References
	CHAPTER 18 HIGH-THROUGHPUT SATELLITES
		18.1 Introduction
		18.2 Frequency and Bandwidth
		18.3 Residential Internet HTS
		18.4 VSAT Services HTS
		References
	CHAPTER 19 NON-GEOSTATIONARY SATELLITE SYSTEMS
		19.1 Introduction
		19.2 Iridium
		19.3 Globalstar
		19.4 O3B
		19.5 OneWeb
		19.6 Starlink
		19.7 Telesat LEO
		References
	CHAPTER 20 MOBILE SATELLITE SYSTEMS IN GEO
		20.1 Introduction
		20.2 Thuraya
		20.3 Inmarsat-4 and Alphasat
		20.4 Terrestar/Echostar XXI
		20.5 Skyterra
		20.6 Inmarsat-5 (Global Xpress) F1-F4
		References
APPENDICES
INDEX
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