K. Badron , A.F. Ismail, , M.R. Islam , A.R Tharek and J. Din Electrical and Computer Department, Kulliyyah of Engineering, International Islamic University Malaysia Fakulti Kejuruteraan Elektrik, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia Abstract. Radiowave propagation plays a very important part in the design and eventually dictates performance of space communication systems. The requirements of today’s ...

When a robot arm(s) conducts some tasks on a satellite, the satellite attitude stability is necessary against the robot arm's motion to maintain the communication link and to generate electrical power from the solar panel(s). However the reaction from the robot arm is much stronger than the natural environmental disturbance torque that the traditional satellite attitude control system cares. Na...

Satellite communications system uses various satellites to transmit radio signals between earth terminals. A typical operational link includes an active satellite and two or more earth terminals. Satellite communication is one of the significant factor from the space programs and has made a major contribution to the international communication. There are various types of information that can be...

Faithful information delivery in satellite multicasting requires appropriate error control. If multicast automatic-repeatrequest (ARQ) is employed, a retransmission does not benefit receivers which do not require it, and consequently the throughput suffers greatly as the number of receivers increases. This performance degradation might be alleviated substantially by conducting retransmissions t...

Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite networks will play an important role in the evolving information infrastructure. Satellites in the low earth orbits provide communication with shorter end-to-end delays and efficient frequency usage. However, some problems need to be solved before LEO satellite systems can be successfully deployed. One of these problems is the handover management. The objective o...

This paper presents a realization of a simple antenna system for land vehicle satellite communication that is tested in experiments conducted on the Engineering Test Satellite-VIII (ETS-VIII). The developed antenna system which was mounted onto a vehicle roof is compact, light weight with simple satellite-tracking operation. In order to realize compact antennas, an onboard-power divider and swi...

In a wide variety of broadband applications, there is a need to distribute information to a potentially large number of receiver sites that are widely dispersed from each other. Communication satellites are a natural technology option and are extremely well suited for carrying such services because of the inherent broadcast capability of the satellite channel. Despite the potential of satellite...

Autonomous position determination in the Globalstar satellite communication system is discussed. ( ) The two-way communication between a user terminal on the earth’s surface and a single low earth orbit LEO satellite makes it possible to derive range and range-rate and determine the user terminal position instantly. Expected accuracy is presented, and a simple direct solution is given. INTRODUC...

Within the recently launched 6th Research Framework Programme of the European Commission, 21 major players in satellite communications research have joined forces to implement the European Satellite Communications Network of Excellence (SatNEx). The primary goal of SatNEx is to achieve long-lasting integration of the European research in satellite communication and to develop a common base of k...

Wireless communication systems are considered a favourable information infrastructure for many developing countries, because they are easier and cheaper to introduce and to maintain, especially in remote and less developed areas. In this paper we present the application analysis of a distributed health care information system in Tanzania, and study which wireless communication technologies are ...