Elements and Performance Criteria
- Research satellite communication systems
- Research satellite applications with various orbit types for assessing their spatial positioning for specific purposes
- Analyse and report on architecture, major subsystems and critical components in communication systems of recently launched commercial satellite
- Research and report on multiple access techniques and their typical applications
- Analyse uplink and downlink variables
- Determine uplink and downlink criteria that impact on carrier to noise ratio
- Determine up/down link criteria that impact on baseband signal to noise ratio
- Determine critical parameters of a satellite system
- Research common types of baseband signal processing, and their spectral and noise improvement parameters for determining criteria for link budget evaluations
- Conduct link budget analysis
- Produce satellite link budget and calculate link margin for satellite system with specified modulation types
- Analyse relationship between bit error ratio (BER) for given energy per bit per noise power density (Eb/No) and forward error correction (FEC) parameter for determining operational performance of link
- Analyse properties of geostationary satellites
- Calculate look angles for geostationary satellite from any receiving location
- Research and report on frequency re-use in conjunction with polarisation selection and use of spot beams
- Analyse and specify major features of very small aperture terminal (VSAT) systems, and calculate link reliability in high rainfall regions