Syllabus

Original Satellite Communications, History, Current State, Overview of Satellite System Engineering Orbital Aspects of Satellite Communication: Orbital mechanism, look angle determination, orbit determination, orbit effects on Communication, System performance Satellite Link Budget: Basic transmission theory, system noise and G/T ratio, down link design, satellite system using small earth station, up-link design Modulation Multiplexing Techniques: Analog telephone transmission, Television transmission, Digital transmission, Digital TV and bandwidth Compression, time division multiplexing Multiple Access Techniques: Frequency division multiple access, time division multiple access, code division multiple access, practical demand access systems, random access, multiple access with on-board processing Satellite Earth Solution Techniques: Earth solution design, tracking, small earth station antennas, Equipment for the Earth station.

Students will study the basic satellite system, Geostationary satellite, satellite link budget, Multiple access, satellite Earth station etc.This subject will be helpful to EC students for understanding wireless communication.

1. Study of Satellite system engineering, orbital mechanism, orbital effects on communication etc.
2. Design of satellite link budget.
3. Study and analysis of multiplexing, multiple access techniques.
4. Study and analysis of Earth station antenna and equipments.

T. Pratt, C.W. Bostian:, Satellite Communications, John Wiley and Sons, 1986

G.D. Gordon and W.L. Morgan, Principles of Communication Satellites, John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

T T Ha, Digital Satellite Communications, McGrawHill, 1990

G. Maral, M. Bousquet, Satellite Communications Systems, John Willey and Sons, Fourth Edition, 2003