Satellite-based global cellular communications
By: Bruno Pattan
Series: McGraw-Hill telecommunications; McGraw-Hill telecommunications
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
Published: 1998
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 259
ISBN-13: 9780071369541
Subjects: Artificial satellites in telecommunication; Global system for mobile communications; Cell phone systems; Satellites artificiels dans les télécommunications; GSM (Radiotéléphonie); Téléphonie cellulaire; Communications satellites; TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING; Radio; Mobile & Wireless Communications; Cellular telephone systems
Description: One of the FCC's leading satellite communications experts spells out how to create, operate, and maintain satellite-based cellular communication networks in this guide. Bruno Pattan clarifies all aspects of cellular communications that employ satellites in non-geostationary (NGSO) and geostationary (GSO) orbits, giving you a working knowledge of the mechanical aspects of orbits ... cellular structuring ... signal analysis ... propagation anomalies ... and hand-held transceivers.

Complete with new information on frequency management, this guide delivers the tools you need to determine the spectrum and regulatory requirements for providing global data and voice service; calculate orbital geometries; deal with different propagation media; design ground receivers that offer the best voice quality, lowest power consumption, and optimum antenna pattern coverage; minimize interference between signals; and assure quality performance in a hostile transmission environment. Pattan also gives you an eye-opening preview of future systems that will provide global communications near the end of this millennium.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Nongeostationary orbit (non-GSO) satellites; title: Satellite-based cellular communications; title: Overview of the frequency bands used in non-GSO satellite-based cellular communications; title: Propagation anomalies and signal statistical distributions in wireless communications; title: Modulations used in cellular digital communications; title: Antenna subsystems for mobile satellite communications; title: Operational and proposed global mobile satellite systems.