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Satellite Communications Modulation and Multiplexing

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This chapter addresses the principles involved in three key areas in satellite communications, namely, modulation (and demodulation), forward error coding, and multiple access approaches or techniques. It focuses on features and technical approaches utilized in modern-day digital satellite communications systems. Since analog approaches or techniques are today seldom used in operating satellite networks, they are not addressed in detail. Nevertheless, several references are given concerning such analog techniques should there be a historical interest in these subjects. The materials provided in this chapter are aimed at giving an appreciation of the issues involved and the performance achievable in practice. For more detailed mathematical treatments, an extensive bibliography is also provided.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    Digital Video Broadcasting (DVB); Second generation framing structure, channel coding and modulation systems for Broadcasting, Interactive Services, News Gathering and other broadband satellite applications, ETSI EN 302 307 V1.2.1.

  2. 2.

    IBS/IDR stands for Intelsat Business Service/Intermediate Data Rate.

  3. 3.

    Digital Video Broadcasting (DVB); Framing structure, channel coding and modulation for 11/12 GHz satellite services, ETSI EN 300 421 V1.1.

  4. 4.

    See Note 1.

  5. 5.

    Digital Video Broadcasting (DVB); User guidelines for the second generation system for Broadcasting, Interactive Services, News Gathering and other broadband satellite applications, ETSI TR 102 376 V1.1.1.

  6. 6.

    Digital Video Broadcasting (DVB); Interaction channel for satellite distribution systems, ETSI EN 301 790 V1.5.1.

  7. 7.

    Digital Video Broadcasting (DVB); Interaction channel for Satellite Distribution Systems; Guidelines for the use of EN 301 790, ETSI TR 101 790 V1.4.1.

  8. 8.

    Digital Video Broadcasting (DVB); Interaction channel for Satellite Distribution Systems; Guidelines for the use of EN 301 790 in mobile scenarios, ETSI TR 102 768 V1.1.1.

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Further Reading

  • A. Burr, Modulation and Coding (Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, 2001)

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  • I. Glover, P. Grant, Digital Communications, 2nd edn. (Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, 1998)

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  • S. Lin, D. Costello, Error Control Coding, 2nd edn. (Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, 2004)

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  • T. Moon, Error Correction Coding (Wiley, New York, 2005). doi:10.1002/0471739219

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  • K. Pahlavan, A. Levesque, Wireless Information Networks (Wiley, New York, 1995)

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  • J. Proaki, Digital Communications, 3rd edn. (McGraw Hill, New York, 1995)

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  • M. Reza Soleymani, Y. Gao, U. Vilaipornsawai, Turbo Coding for Satellite and Wireless Communications (Kluwer, Boston, 2002)

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  • B. Sklar, Digital Communications, 2nd edn. (Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, 2001)

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  • P. Sweeney, Error Control Coding (Wiley, Chichester, 2002)

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Thompson, P.T. (2017). Satellite Communications Modulation and Multiplexing. In: Pelton, J., Madry, S., Camacho-Lara, S. (eds) Handbook of Satellite Applications. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-23386-4_86

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