Tutorial: RF Situational Awareness, Decision Making, Performance Optimization and Networking in Transponded SATCOM Systems

Description

Approved for 3 CompTIA CEUs: A+, Network+

This tutorial presents the basics of transponded satellite communication (SATCOM) system operations including Dynamic Resource Allocation (DRA) decision making, Radio Frequency (RF) situational awareness, transponder performance optimization with pre-distortion, as well as networking related problems. The material assumes a basic understanding of communications and of basic engineering. The course will cover basics of transponded SATCOM systems and important aspects of its operations including link budgets, SATCOM waveforms, protected SATCOM waveforms with frequency hopping (FH), quality measure of transponded SATCOM links, traditional RF situational awareness and advanced RF situational awareness with information fusion, DRA problem in transponded SATCOM systems, conventional approach for DRA and game-theoretic DRA. It also covers operations of satellite transponder, the impact of transponder non-linearity (AM-AM and AM-PM distortion) on system performance and the use of pre-distortion to deal with transponder non-linearity. The networking part introduces problems that arise when SATCOM links with long delay and potentially high packet loss are used in communication networks. Students will leave the course with an understanding of transponded SATCOM systems, and SATCOM system in general, from physical layer aspects to networking aspects.

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