Satellite Communications—Intermediate

Presenter: Dr Mike Ryan

29-31 May 2024 | 9-11 December 2024

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Duration: 3 Days | Price: $2,970

 

Course Aim

This three-day Satellite Communications—Intermediate course incorporates our Satellite Communications—Overview course as the first day and forms the first three days of the five -day Satellite Communications—Advanced. This Satellite Communications—Intermediate course provides attendees with a more-detailed understanding of the issues associated with the design and operation of modern satellite communications systems. Some basic familiarity with communications fundamentals is assumed so prior attendance at our Fundamental of Communications Systems course is recommended. Attendees receive a copy of the presenter’s book Principles of Satellite Communications.

Course Outline

Day 1: Satellite Communications—Overview short course

Propagation: Electromagnetic waves | Transmission path losses and calculation | Propagation for mobile satellite communications systems

Antennas: Basic antenna theory | Antenna gain | Dipoles | Horn antennas | Parabolic antennas

Modulation and Multiplexing: Analogue modulation Bandwidth | Noise effect | Digital modulation | PSK | Spectral efficiency | Multiplexing – Frequency division multiplexing / Time division multiplexing

Source Coding: Quantisation | Entropy Coding | Predictive Coding| Transform Coding | Video Coding | Speech Coding

Multiple Access: FDMA | TDMA | CDMA

Channel Coding: Information theory | Reason for channel coding | Channel coding in satellite communication | Block codes | Convolutional codes | Viterbi decoding | Punctured, interleaved, concatenated codes | Turbo codes

Link Budget: Uplink and downlink model | System parameters | Example link budget

Course Material

The following resources will be provided to attendees of this course:

  1.  A copy of the authors book Principles of Satellite Communications.

  2. A PDF copy of the PowerPoint presentations used for the course.