
Satellite Signal Propagation, Impairments and Mitigation
Description
Key Features
- Covers the basics of signal propagation, starting from Maxwell’s equations and then gradually developing the physical reasons for the impairments
- Includes different important propagation experiments conducted and detailed in the Appendix
- Employs the power of MATLAB® as both a visualization and problem-solving tool
- Provides MATLAB scripts for simulation exercises
Readership
Space systems engineers, also postgraduate students and researchers working in the field of space communication
Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Introduction
1.1 Introduction to Satellite communication
1.2 Satellite Signals and Performance
1.3 Atmosphere
1.4 Propagation Impairments
1.5 How to best utilize the book?
Chapter 2: Maxwell’s Equation and EM Waves
2.1 Electric and Magnetic fields
2.2 Maxwell’s Equations: its meaning and importance
2.3 Static case: Electrostatics and Magnetostatics
2.4 Dynamic case
2.5Wave equations and their solution
2.6 Direction of Wave flow & Poynting Vector
2.7 Important Observations
Chapter 3 : Interaction of waves with medium
3.1 Electric materials
3.2 Wave equation in medium
3.3 Power utilisation in a dielectric
3.4 Dispersive Nature of parameters
3.5 Propagation Impairments:
Chapter 4: Ionosphere and ionospheric Impairments
4.1 Ionosphere
4.2 Ionospheric Propagation
4.3 Effects
Chapter 5 : Ionospheric impairments: Measurement and Mitigation
5.1 Measurements
5.2 Models of ionosphere
5.3 Impairment Mitigations
5.4 Applications
Chapter 6 : Tropospheric Propagation and Impairments
6.1 Troposphere – Constitution and Characteristics
6.2 Propagation in Troposphere
6.3 Factors Affecting Tropospheric Propagation
Chapter 7 : Tropospheric Impairments: Measurements and Mitigation
7.1 Measurements of Parameters
7.2 Propagation Impairment Models
Chapter 8 : Noise, Multipath and Interference
8.1 Noise
8.2 Multipath
8.3 Interference
Chapter 9 : Satellite Link Performance
9.1 Link Design Aspects
9.2 Satellite links
9.3 Performance
Product details
- No. of pages: 322
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Academic Press 2017
- Published: August 1, 2017
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Paperback ISBN: 9780128097328
- eBook ISBN: 9780128097335
About the Author
Rajat Acharya
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