Designed as a text for the undergraduate students of Electronics and Communication Engineering/Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering as well as for postgraduate students of Communication Systems/Electronics and Communication Engineering, the book presents all the topics related to satellite communication in an organised way, starting from the basic concepts to the latest advancements in the field.
The book commences with an introductory chapter that familiarises the readers with the evolution of satellite communication. The following chapters expatiate on orbital mechanics, perturbation factors of the orbit and different orbit configurations. Next, the launching mechanism and satellite sub-systems, which together configure a complete satellite system, are focused. The book further explicates the link calculation to facilitate the design aspect. In addition, satellite access mechanism, and Internet linking via satellite are also outlined in the text. Finally, the concluding chapters of the book elaborate navigation satellite, direct broadcasting satellite television, VSAT and special purpose satellites.
With all the contents enriched by the vast experience of the author, the book provides a comprehensive treatment of the subject, and enables the students to rely upon this exclusive book only.
KEY FEATURES
The presentation of every topic is kept simple and systematic to help students understand the complicated concepts easily.
Annexures covering presentations of some additional relevant information are appended to most of the chapters.
The book is rich in pedagogical features to the full, which include ample figures and tables, summary and review questions at the end of each chapter.
Solved numerical problems are provided in between the text.
Bibliography is given at the end of the book.
P. BANERJEE, Ph.D., is Professor, Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Amity School of Engineering and Technology (ASET), Amity University, Noida. He joined National Physical Laboratory (NPL) in 1976 and had retired as Senior Deputy Director, Scientist G in 2011. He is Fellow of Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) (UK; formerly IEE) and Senior Member of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) (USA), Fellow of Institution of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers (IETE), and Fellow of Metrology Society of India. He has more than 35 years of experience in design and development of analog and digital circuits, microprocessors based system, electronics instrumentations, phase lock system, time dissemination techniques via geostationary satellite, GPS, GLONASS and GNSS and generation of time scale, timing measurement system and analysis, etc. Dr. Banerjee has received ‘Young Scientist Award’ in 1984 from International Union Radio Science (URSI), ‘IETE Hari Ramji Toshniwal Gold Medal’ in 2006, and ‘Distinguished Visiting Professorship’ by Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE) for Engineering Colleges under AICTE during 2007–08. Besides giving more than 50 invited talks in India and abroad and presenting 80 papers in conferences, Dr. Banerjee has published more than 80 papers in national and international journals. In addition, he has two international patents and three national patents.
