Advances in Communications Satellite Systems

Ifiok Otung is a chartered engineer and professor of satellite communications at the University of South Wales (USW), UK. He earned a PhD in Satellite Communications from the University of Surrey, UK in 1995. His areas of expertise include mobile and satellite communication systems and radio wave propagation. He has supervised many PhDs and contributed to numerous publications in technical journals and international conference proceedings. Professor Otung is also the author of several major textbooks including Communication Engineering Principles (Wiley, 2020) and Digital Communications Principles and Systems (IET, 2014). He is a member of the IET and AIAA. Thomas Butash is the founder (2011) and principal of Innovative Aerospace Information Systems (IS), a company providing consulting services on state-of-the-art aerospace IS with a focus on communications satellite systems design. Previously, Dr. Butash 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. Dr. Butash is an AIAA Fellow. Tetsushi Ikegami is a professor of telecommunication in the Department of Electronics and Bioinformatics, Meiji University, Kawasaki, Japan. Before his professorship, he led ETS-V, ETS-VI, COMETS Mobile and Ka and mm-waveband satellite experimental teams at the Kashima Space Research Center of the Communications Research Laboratory (CRL, now NICT). He has served as Technical Program and General Chairs of several international conferences, including IWUWBS2005, ISCIT2012, ISSSTA2012, ISMICT2013, ISMICT2020, etc. He is an IEICE fellow and a member of IEEE.

Introduction: Communications satellite systems: retrospect and prospect
Section 1: Broadband satellite communication architectures and applications

Chapter 1: The results of WINDS experiments of NICT
Chapter 2: Report of 3.2 Gbps transmission experiment result using WINDS satellite
Chapter 3: Disaster countermeasure experiments using WINDS and the response of 2016 Kumamoto earthquakes
Chapter 4: Satellite integrated communication system for marine robots operations
Chapter 5: Evolution of Ka-band on-the-move terminals for land and maritime broadband communications



Section 2: Integrated applications and architectures for vessels and IoT

Chapter 6: Mega-constellations as enabler of autonomous shipping
Chapter 7: On decoding strategies for satellite uplink asynchronous random access channels
Chapter 8: Software-defined radio implementation of UHF RFID tags in 5G Internet of things application
Chapter 9: Energy-efficient user terminals for Internet of things applications over satellite



Section 3: DTN and HTS technologies

Chapter 10: Rising above the cloud: toward high-rate delay-tolerant networking in low earth orbit
Chapter 11: Integration of high-performance V-band GAN MMIC HPA for the QVlift project
Chapter 12: Performance study of frequency flexibility in high throughput satellites and its contribution to operations strategy



Section 4: New satellite system architectures and components

Chapter 13: Satellite experiments on direct spectrum division transmission over multiple transponders
Chapter 14: User terminal wideband modem for very high throughput satellites
Chapter 15: Licensed shared access testbed for integrated satellite-terrestrial communications: the ASCENT project
Chapter 16: Cognitive communications for NASA space systems
Chapter 17: Supporting NASA Artemis 1 mission with JAXA Uchinoura station



Section 5: High-speed optical communications and feeder links 1

Chapter 18: Implementation of the method for estimating propagation direction of laser beam transmitted from ground to satellite
Chapter 19: Studies on site diversity to mitigate cloud blockage in satellite-ground optical communications based on long-term ground meteorological observation data
Chapter 20: Overview of optical ground systems developments for network switching controls to avoid cloud blockage in space optical direct communications
Chapter 21: Demonstration of high-speed pixelated acquisition and tracking system for optical intersatellite links
Chapter 22: An experimental study of RF optical transformation function



Section 6: Advanced digital payloads and components

Chapter 23: Beam-hopping system configuration and terminal synchronization schemes
Chapter 24: Adaptive coding and modulation (ACM) and power control scheme for return link of DVB-RCS2 satellite system
Chapter 25: A study of frequency utilization efficiency of OFDMA adaptive coding and modulation on Ka-band satellite communications system
Chapter 26: Antenna pattern evaluation formed by reconfigurable antennas with the configuration of an array-fed reflector
Chapter 27: Gallium nitride MMIC power amplifier for use in Ka-band HTS applications



Section 7: High-speed optical communications and feeder links 2

Chapter 28: Technological trends and future prospects of satellite communications for mega-constellations with small satellites
Chapter 29: Commercial communications satellites in the post-2020 era
Chapter 30: 5G and beyond for new space: vision and research challenges
Chapter 31: Direction of Satcom R&D in Japan: WINDS, ETS-IX, and beyond



Section 8: Satellite antenna technologies

Chapter 32: Development of highly maintainable and reliable RF transceiver for satellite base stations
Chapter 33: Fan-fold Ka-band large reflector and its applications
Chapter 34: The reduction of measurement point for self-calibration method of systematic errors for DBF antenna using gating process
Chapter 35: Calibration method for array antenna considering mutual coupling in mobile satellite communications



Section 9: Propagation and modeling for satellite communications

Chapter 36: Analysis of the impact of turbulence on adaptive optics ground station performance
Chapter 37: A 40-year cloud climatological study for Australia implications for siting of laser communication infrastructure
Chapter 38: Experimental results of seasonal vegetation changes on data transmission for Ka-band mobile satellite communication
Chapter 39: Experimental study of external interference for LEO-based automatic identification system (AIS)



Section 10: Future technologies for 5G and beyond

Chapter 40: Advanced demonstration plans of high-speed laser communication "HICALI" mission onboard the engineering test satellite 9
Chapter 41: Optical communication experiment with microsatellite body-pointing using VSOTA on RISESAT
Chapter 42: Research and development of an optical ground station supporting both GEO- and LEO-to-ground links
Chapter 43: Optical observations of nonoperational satellites in graveyard orbits



Section 11: Flexible HTS systems and advanced digital payloads

Chapter 44: Development of Ka-band digital beam forming antenna payload for the engineering test satellite-9
Chapter 45: The initialstudy of calibrating receiving digital beam forming in engineering test satellite-9
Chapter 46: Beam pattern optimization based on up/downlink information for multibeam satellite communication systems



Section 12: Satellite networks design challenges and applications

Chapter 47: Channel state modeling and performance evaluation of DVB-S2X based broadband land mobile satellite communication systems
Chapter 48: Impact of antenna and propagation models on coexistence of 5G and fixed satellite services
Chapter 49: Integrated space-enabled hybrid 5G-V2X communications link modeling
Chapter 50: K/Ka-band transceiver sensitivity modeling and link characterization for integrated 5G-LEO communication applications
Chapter 51: Link budget design for integrated 5G-LEO communication applications



Section 13: New satellite components and transmitter and modem technologies

Chapter 52: Secret key agreement for satellite laser communications
Chapter 53: Methods for securing spacecraft tasking and control via an enterprise Ethereum blockchain
Chapter 54: PAPR reduction and digital predistortion for 5G waveforms in digital satellite payloads
Chapter 55: Effects of differential oscillator phase noise in precoding performance
Chapter 56: GNSS-assisted acquisition technique for LTE over satellite



Section 14: NGSO constellations and 5G integration

Chapter 57: Information rate and quality of service guarantees for end-to-end data flows in an NGSO satellite network
Chapter 58: A new optimization tool for mega-constellation design and its application to trunking systems
Chapter 59: Estimation and compensation of timing drift for NR-based NTN system
Chapter 60: Spectrum sharing schemes in integrated satellite-terrestrial network
Chapter 61: Hybrid analog-digital precoding design for satellite systems



Section 15: NGSO and GEO system issues and interference mitigation techniques

Chapter 62: Carrier phase recovery for DVB-S2x standard in VL SNR channel
Chapter 63: Spectrum prediction and interference detection for satellite communications
Chapter 64: Channel capacity analysis of satellite MIMO system depending on the orbital altitude
Chapter 65: Effects of channel phase in multibeam multicast satellite precoding systems
Chapter 66: Hardware precoding demonstration in multibeam UHTS communications under realistic payload characteristics