EE 4205

RADAR, Satellite and Optical Communication

Lecture 05: Communication Satellite Link Design

Course Teacher
Dr. Kalyan Kumar Halder
Associate Professor
Dept. of EEE, KUET
1
Uplink Design

2
Complete Link Design

3
Complete Link Design

4
 Interference Effects on Complete Link Design

❑ One important interference arises from terrestrial microwave links. The

6/4 GHz frequency bands allocated to the satellite communications are
also allocated to the terrestrial microwave links. Thus the receiving
earth station working at 4 GHz band is susceptible to interference from
terrestrial microwave transmissions at 4 GHz. Similarly the
transmitting earth station working at 6 GHz may generate interference
into terrestrial microwave reception at 6 GHz. Thus there may be
mutual interference between an earth station and a terrestrial
microwave system.
❑ Another kind of interference that comes into effect in satellite link is
the cross-polarization interference and depolarization caused by rain.
The cross-polarization interference arises with satellite links which
employ orthogonal polarization to transmit two different channels on a
common or overlapping frequency band.
❑ The third kind of interference that might take place in a satellite fink is
the adjacent channel interference (or adjacent transponder
interference). This arises mainly in band limited channels. 5
Mathematical Problem