Advances in Communications Satellite Systems

Ifiok Otung is Professor of Satellite Communications at the University of South Wales (USW), UK. His areas of expertise include Mobile & Satellite Communication Systems and Radiowave Propagation. He is a Chartered Engineer with a broad and international experience of research and teaching at various universities in Europe and Africa. He earned his PhD in Satellite Communications from the University of Surrey, UK. He has written several advanced books including Digital Communications: Principles and systems (IET, 2014). He is a member of the IET and AIAA.Thomas Butash founded Innovative Aerospace IS in 2011 to provide consulting services on state-of-the-art aerospace information systems (IS), with a focus on communications satellite systems design. Previously, he was a Technical Director and Engineering Fellow at BAE Systems (formerly Lockheed Martin, Loral and IBM) Space Systems & Electronics, with more than 30 years' experience in communications satellite systems development.Peter Garland has worked on Satellite Communications in Canada for well over 35 Years. During that time he has been involved in nearly every program where the state of art was moved forward. In the mid-nineties he led studies that eventually resulted in the flight of an advanced Ka Band digital processing payload on the Anik F2 satellite. He also led the team that first developed and promoted the DVB-RCS standard for two way satellite communications. Peter was recently presented with the 2014 American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) award for achievement in Aerospace Communications, only the second Canadian and the second UK born recipient to be presented with this international award. He is also currently Chairman of the Communications Systems Technical Committee of the AIAA.

• Section 1: Multi-beam Satellite SystemsChapter 1: Symbol vs block level precoding in multi-beam satellite systemsChapter 2: Hardware Demonstration of Precoded Communications in Multi-Beam UHTSChapter 3: On the capacity of asynchronous cooperative NOMA in multibeam satellite systemsChapter 4: Overlapping clustering for beam-hopping systemsChapter 5: Adjacent beams resource sharing to serve hot spots: a rate-splitting approach Section 2: Cognitive Communications and Propagation Channel OptimizationChapter 6: Time Correlation Used to Improve Time Diversity Gain of Rainfall PredictionChapter 7: Protection of the Mobile Station from the Interference by Maritime Earth Station in Motion in the 28 GHZ BandChapter 8: Rateless codes for satellite systems over rain fading channelsChapter 9: Channel States Information based Spectrum Sensing Algorithm in Satellite Cognitive Communication NetworksChapter 10: Wideband nonlinearities correction in digital payloads channels with parallel architectures Section 3: Flexible High Throughput Satellite Systems and Interference Mitigation TechniquesChapter 11: Modifications to Multi-beam Systems for DRRMChapter 12: Adaptive Resources Allocation for Flexible Payload enabling VHTS systems: Methodology and ArchitectureChapter 13: Adaptive Onboard Compensation of Non-Linear HPAs and Imperfect Butler Matrices in Multiport Amplifiers for High Throughput SatellitesChapter 14: Distributed precoding for multiple satellite systems with overlapping coverage areasChapter 15: Productized Multicarrier Predistortion Total Throughput Gains around 20% over Linearized Channels in True Customer Use CasesChapter 16: A mitigation technique for adjacent channel interference in communication satellites Section 4: New Satellite System Architectures and ComponentsChapter 17: Novel RF architectures and technologies for VSATChapter 18: A Modular Architecture for Low Cost Phased Array Antenna System for Ka-Band Mobile Satellite CommunicationChapter 19: A cots-based software-defined communication system platform and applications in LEOChapter 20: V-band low-noise amplifier module for high throughput satellite applicationsChapter 21: Satellite payload design for cislunar communications Section 5: High Speed Optical Communications and Feeder LinksChapter 22: Alphasat, Sentinel-1A/B, Sentinel-2A/B, and EDRS Paving the Way for Systematic Optical Data Transfer for Earth Observation MissionsChapter 23: Diversity Architectures for High Data Rate Ground-to-Satellite Optical and EHF LinksChapter 24: Research and development approach to realize flexible optical ground network operations for effective data downlink from space to ground Section 6: VHF Data Exchange SystemsChapter 25: On the VHF radio channel for the data exchange system via satellite (VDE-SAT); experimental results from the NORSAT-2 satellite experimentChapter 26: Field trials of the VHF data exchange system (VDES) satellite downlink component Section 7: Mobile Satellite Systems and Bandwidth Efficient TechniquesChapter 27: Mobility enhancement for digital video broadcast networks via satelliteChapter 28: System level modelling of DVB-S2X in high throughput satellite systemChapter 29: Demonstration of Autonomous Bandwidth Allocation Scheme using SC-FDMA subcarrier switchingChapter 30: Robust initial access technique of spread spectrum based on DVB-RCS2 standard for mobile applicationChapter 31: Beam-hopping over-the-air tests using DVB-S2X super-framing Section 8: Transmitter and Modern TechnologiesChapter 32: Maximizing data throughput in earth observation satelliteto ground transmission by employing a flexible high data rate transmitter operating in X-Band and Ka-BandChapter 33: Implementation of a Machine Learning Based Modulation Scheme in GNURadio for Over-the-Air Packet CommunicationsChapter 34: An efficiency comparison between timeslicing and multi-carrier transmission for linearized transponders Section 9: 5G and Satellite Networks IntegrationChapter 35: Efficient 5G Edge Caching Over SatelliteChapter 36: Use cases to business modelling of satellite backhaul in 5GChapter 37: 5G technologies for a communications and navigation integrated infrastructure on moon and mars Section 10: Satellite Networks Design Challenges and ApplicationsChapter 38: Capacity enhancement and interference management for interactive satellite networksChapter 39: VLEO Satellites - a New Earth Observation Space Systems Commercial and Business ModelChapter 40: Towards the Internet for Space: bringing cloud computing to space systems