KNOWLEDGE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, SALEM-637504

DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRONICS & COMMUNICATION ENGINEERING

COURSE PLAN
Class: IV year /VIII
Subject Name: EC2045 & satellite Communication

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Unit I OVERVIEW OF SATELLITE SYSTEMS, ORBITS

AND LAUNCHING METHODS

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Introduction Frequency Allocations for Satellite

Services
Intelsat U.S.Domsats
Polar Orbiting Satellites Problems
Keplers First Law Keplers Second Law Keplers
Third Law
Definitions of Terms for Earth-orbiting Satellites
Orbital Elements Apogee and Perigee Heights
Orbital Perturbations Effects of a Nonspherical Earth
Atmospheric Drag
Inclined Orbits Calendars Universal Time Julian
Dates Sidereal Time
The Orbital Plane The Geocentric- Equatorial
Coordinate System
Earth Station Referred to the IJK Frame The Topcentric
Horizon Co-ordinate System
The Sub-satellite Point- Predicting Satellite Position.
UNIT II GEOSTATIONARY ORBIT & SPACE SEGMENT

Introduction Antenna Look Angels The Polar

Mount Antenna
Limits of Visibility Near Geostationary Orbits
Earth Eclipse of Satellite
Sun Transit Outage Launching Orbits Problems
Power Supply Attitude Control Spinning
Satellite Stabilization Momentum Wheel
Stabilization
Station Keeping Thermal Control
TT&C Subsystem Transponders
Wideband Receiver Input Demultiplexer Power
Amplifier
Antenna Subsystem Morelos Anik-E
Advanced Tiros-N Spacecraft

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UNIT III EARTH SEGMENT & SPACE LINK

Introduction Receive-Only Home TV Systems

Outdoor Unit Indoor Unit for Analog (FM) TV
Master Antenna TV System
Community Antenna TV System Transmit-Receive
Earth Stations Problems
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Equivalent Isotropic Radiated Power Transmission

Losses Free-Space Transmission Feeder Losses
Antenna Misalignment Losses Fixed Atmospheric
and Ionospheric Losses Link Power Budget Equation
System Noise Antenna Noise
Amplifier Noise Temperature Amplifiers in Cascade
Noise Factor Noise Temperature of Absorptive
Networks
Overall System Noise Temperature Carrier-to-Noise
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Uplink Saturation Flux Density Input Back Off

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The Earth Station HPA Downlink Output Back off

Satellite TWTA Output Effects of Rain
Uplink rain-fade margin Downlink rain-fade margin

Combined Uplink and Downlink C/N Ratio

Intermodulation Noise.
UNIT IV

SATELLITE ACCESS

Single Access Preassigned FDMA, DemandAssigned FDMA, SPADE System. .

Bandwidth-limited a Power-limited TWT amplifier
operation, FDMA downlink analysis
TDMA : Reference Burst; Preamble and Postamble,
Carrier recovery, Network synchronization, unique
word detection, Traffic Date,
Frame Efficiency and Channel capacity, preassigned
TDMA, Demand assigned TDMA,
Speech Interpolation and Prediction, Downlink
analysis for Digital transmission.
Companion of uplink Power requirements for FDMA
& TDMA. On-board signal Processing for TDMA /
FDMA operation, Satellite switched TDMA.
Code-Division Multiple Access Direct-Sequence
spread spectrum code signal c(t) autocorrelation
function for c(t) Acquisition and trackling
Spectrum spreading and dispreading CDMA
throughput Problems Network Layers TCP Link
Satellite Links and TCP

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Enhancing TCP Over Satellite Channels Using

Standard Mechanisms (RFC-2488) Requests for
comments
Split TCP connections Asymmetric Channels
Proposed Systems.
UNIT V
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DIRECT BROADCAST SATELLITE

Introduction Orbital Spacings

Power Rating and Number of Transponders
Frequencies and Polarization
Transponder Capacity Bit Rates for Digital
Television
MPEG Compression Standards Forward Error
Correction
Home Receiver Outdoor Unit (ODU)
Home Receiver Indoor Unit (IDU)
Downlink Analysis Uplink -Problems
- Satellite Mobile Services VSATs
Radarsat Global Positioning Satellite System
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