SATELLITE COMMUNICATIONS - A SHORT COURSE

1. Satellites in General

a. What Keeps Objects in Orbit?

b. Can We Imitate Nature? (Artificial Satellites)

2. Communications Satellites

a. Why Satellites for Communications

b. Low Earth-Orbiting Communications Satellites

c. Geosynchronous Communications Satellites

3. Components for Communications Satellites

a. Basic Components

b. Transmitters

c. Antennas

d. Power Generation

4. Future Communications Satellites

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Tutorials in Communication and Signal Processing

Tutorial 1 - Basic concepts in signal analysis, power, energy and spectrum (Revised Oct 2008)

Tutorial 2 - What is Differential Phase Shift Keying

Tutorial 3 - What is the DVB-S standard, a simplified version

Tutorial 4 - Fourier Analysis Made easy - Part 1

Tutorial 5 - Fourier Analysis Made easy - Part 2

Tutorial 6 - Fourier Analysis Made Easy - Part 3

Tutorial 7 - Hilbert Transform and the Complex Envelope

Tutorial 8 - All About Modulation - Part 1

Tutorial 9 - Baseband, Passband and Amplitude Modulation (AM)

Tutorial 10 - All about Traveling Wave Tube Amplifiers (TWTA) and non-linear amplification

Tutorial 11 - Link Budgets 101

Tutorial 12 - Convolutional Coding and Decoding Made Easy

Tutorial 13 - Coding Concepts and Block Coding

Tutorial 14 - Inter Symbol Interference (ISI) and Raised cosine filtering

Tutorial 15 - How to interpret an Eye diagram

Tutorial 16 - Partial Response signaling and Quadrature Partial Response (QPR) modulation

Tutorial 17 - Frequency Modulation (FM) , FSK, MSK and more

Tutorial 18 - Unlocking the Phase Locked Loop (PLL) - Part 1

Tutorial 19 - Unlocking the Phase Locked Loop (PLL) - Part 2

Tutorial 20 - Modulation performance metrics and computation of BER

Tutorial 21 - Linear Time Invariant systems and Matched filtering

Tutorial 22 - Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplex (OFDM, DMT)

Tutorial 23a - About Lattice and cosets

Tutorial 23b - Trellis coded Modulation (TCM)

Tutorial 24 - Turbo Coding and MAP Decoding, Part 1 ,Part 2 - The MAP decoding algorithm, step-by-step Companion worksheet

Tutorial 25 - CDMA

Tutorial 26 - Filters, analog, digital and adaptive equilization