HOMEWORK No.

1 Fall 2010

1. Noise and Noise Figure

Find Ts for the following system (G1=1, G2=10, G3=100 and T1=90, T2= 270,
T3=540 and T4=1000)

2. Coverage area
What is the coverage area of the LEO satellite (1000 km altitude), given a spot
beam from a 0.5 m diameter dish on the satellite and a minimum elevation
angle of 30 degrees from the SGT?

3. Evaluate the link budget for the system defined below and answer the
following questions that follow

• General parameters
o Satellite altitude: LEO (1000 km)
o Frequency: 1.5 GHz (uplink), 1.6 GHz (downlink)
• Transmit ground terminal
o 1.6 m dish antenna
o 100W
o 30 degree elevation angle
• Satellite
o Bent-pipe transponder
o -90 dBW/m2 saturation flux density (SFD)
o Maximum EIRP = 35.0 dBW
o You may consider G7T = -4.8 dB/K
• Mobile terminal
o 0.15 m dish antenna
o Noise system temperature (Ts): 200 degrees K
• Performance
o Required operating margin: 6 dB
o Miscellaneous losses: 6 dB
o Required Eb/N0: 9.6 dB (AWGN)
o Data rate: 200 kbit/s

a) What is the EIRP of the transmit ground terminal?

b) Is the satellite transponder operating in saturation?
c) Can the link be closed? If so, can the data rate be increased?
To what data rate?
d) Could the link still be closed if 10 dB of additional margin is
needed for heavy rain?
e) Is this link up or down link limited?
f) What is the G/T of the ground terminal?
g) In your opinion, what type of services might this system be
useful for? Why?
h) How might you improve the performance of this system?