Course Overview
This three-day course (incorporating our Satellite Communications—Overview short course as the first day) provides participants with an understanding of the issues associated with the design and provision of modern satellite communications systems.
Some basic familiarity with communications fundamentals is assumed as background knowledge for the course. Attendance at our Basic Communications Principles course is recommended for those who want to gain an understanding of the underlying communications principles before attending this course.
Attendees receive a comprehensive set of notes and a copy of the book Principles of Satellite Communications, Ryan, M., Argos Press, Canberra, 2004.
Who Should Attend?
Anyone requiring a more detailed understanding of the basic principles underpinning modern satellite communications systems; business managers; project managers; project technical staff; systems engineers; engineers seeking technology refresh.
Course Presenters
Dr Michael Frater, Dr Mark Pickering and Dr Michael Ryan
Dr Mark Pickering is a Senior Lecturer with the School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering, at UNSW@ADFA. . Since joining the University of New South Wales, he has lectured in a range of subjects including analogue communications techniques, and digital image processing. He has been actively involved in the development of the recent MPEG international standards for audio-visual communications. He is currently supervising several PhD projects including a joint project in conjunction with the Australian Defence Science and Technology Organisation (DSTO) on image understanding for surveillance applications. Mark holds Bachelor, Masters and Doctor of Philosophy degrees in Electrical Engineering and has co-authored 12 journal papers and over 40 international conference papers on image processing, compression and communications.
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Course Outline
Day 1: Satellite Communications—Overview short course
Propagation Issues and Path Losses
Electromagnetic waves | Transmission path losses and calculation | Propagation for mobile communications systems
Modulation and Multiplexing
Analogue modulation | FM | Bandwidth | Noise effect | Digital modulation | PSK | Spectral efficiency | Multiplexing – Frequency division multiplexing / Time division multiplexing
Multiple Access
FDMA | TDMA | CDMA
Channel Coding
Information theory-reason for channel coding | Channel coding in satellite communication | Block codes | Convolutional codes | Viterbi decoding | Punctured, interleaved, concatenated codes | Turbo codes
Source Coding
Analogue-to-digital conversion | Huffman / predictive / transform coding | Video and audio coding
Link Budget Considerations
Uplink and downlink model | System parameters | Example link budget
Fees
Defence Rate $1,725
Non-Defence Rate $1,905
Course Dates
1 - 3 December 2008
How to Register
Corporate In-house Presentation
For Course Enquiries, please contact Business Services on 02 6268 8421,
Email:Business Office
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