Satellite Communications and Navigation Systems (eBook)

Enrico Del Re was born in Florence, Italy. He received the Dr. Ing. degree in electronics engineering from the University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy, in 1971. Until 1975 he was engaged in public administration and private firms, involved in the analysis and design of the telecommunication and air traffic control equipment and space systems. Since 1975 he has been with the Department of Electronics Engineering of the University of Florence, Florence, Italy, first as a Research Assistant, then as an Associate Professor, and since 1986 as Professor. During the academic year 1987-1988 he was on leave from the University of Florence for a nine-month period of research at the European Space Research and Technology Centre of the European Space Agency, The Netherlands. His main research interest are digital signal processing, mobile and satellite communications and communication networks, on which he has published more than 300 papers, in international journals and conferences. He is the Co-editor of the book Satellite Integrated Communications Networks (North-Holland, 1988), one of the authors of the book Data Compression and Error Control Techniques with Applications (Academic, 1985) and the editor of the books Mobile and Personal Communications (Elsevier, 1995), Software Radio Technologies and Services (Springer, 2001), Satellite Personal Communications for Future-Generation Systems (Springer, 2002) and Mobile and Personal Satellite Communications 5-EMPS2002 (IIC, Italy, 2002) . He has been the Chairman of the European Project COST 227 "Integrated Space/Terrestrial Mobile Networks" (1992-95) and the EU COST Action 252 "Evolution of satellite personal communications from second to future generation systems" (1996-2000). He received the 1988/89 premium from the IEE (UK) for the paper "Multicarrier demodulator for digital satellite communication systems". He is the head of the Digital Signal Processing and Telematics Laboratory of the Department of Electronics and Telecommunications of the University of Florence. He is Director of the Italian Interuniversity Consortium for Telecommunications (CNIT). Professor Del Re is a Senior Member of the IEEE and a member of the European Association for Signal Processing (EURASIP).

Preface 6
Acknowledgements 10
Table of Contents 11
Trends of Communications and Navigation System Integration 17
Network Centric Operations: The Role of Satellite Communications 18
Comparison and Integration of GPS and SAR Data 34
Integration of Navigation and Communication for Location and Context Aware RRM 40
Convergence of Networks: An Aerospace-Friendly Strategic Vision 56
The Monitor Project: A GNSS Based Platform for Land Monitoring and Civil Engineering Applications 66
The Galileo C-Band Uplink for Integrity and Navigation Data 78
A GPS/EGNOS Local Element Integrated with the VHF Communication Infrastructure Under Development in the POP- ART Project 95
Optical Intersatellite Links Made Easier and Affordable by Precision 3D Spacecraft Localization via GPS/ GNSS Constellations 107
Navigation Satellite Technologies 120
A Satellite for the Galileo Mission 121
Galileo Rubidium Standard and Passive Hydrogen Maser 145
China-Europe Co-Operation Agreements for Navigation: SART and LRR Developments 152
The Impact of the Galileo Signal in Space in the Acquisition System 161
The Aalborg GPS Software Defined Radio Receiver 178
Ephemeris Interpolation Techniques for Assisted GNSS Services 193
GNSS Based Attitude Determination Systems for High Altitude Platforms 206
Galileo IOV System Initialization and LCVTT Technique Exploitation 218
Impact of Atmosphere Turbulence on Satellite Navigation Signals 237
GIOVE-A SIS Experimentation and Receiver Validation: Laboratory Activities at ESTEC 246
Overview of Galileo Receivers 263
Performance Assessment of the TurboDLL for Satellite Navigation Receivers 276
Analysis of GNSS Signals using the Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope 286
First Results on Acquisition and Tracking of the GIOVE- A Signal- in- Space 294
Precise Time Technology for Galileo 2006 TIWDC 305
GIRASOLE Receiver Development for Safety of Life Applications 314
Galileo Performance Verification in IOV Phase 329
Different Acquisition Algorithms for the Galileo L1 Signal with BOC( 1,1) Modulation 341
Satellite Navigation: Perspectives and Applications 353
Galileo: Current Status, Prospects and Applications 354
The Galileo Test Range 359
Perspective of Galileo in Geophysical Monitoring: The Geolocalnet Project 366
Common–View Technique Application: An Italian Use Case 383
MARKAB: A Toolset to Analyze EGNOS SBAS Signal in Space for Civil Aviation 397
Hybridization of GNSS Receivers with INS Systems for Terrestrial Applications in Airport Environment 412
W Band Multi Application Payload for Space and Multiplanetary Missions 426
GNSS Bit-True Signal Simulator 442
RUNE (Railway User Navigation Equipment): Architecture & Tests
GPS, Galileo and the Future of High Precision Services: An Interoperability Point of View 475
GNSS ATC Interface 489
Advanced Satellite Communications Systems & Services
Advanced Satellite Communication Systems & Services
QOS-Constrained MOP-Based Bandwidth Allocation Over Space Networks 509
Carrier Pairing, a Technique for Increasing Interactive Satellite Systems Capacity. An Assessment of its Applicability to Different System Architectures 526
Reconfigurability for Satellite Terminals: Feasibility and Convenience 544
Link Cooperation Technique for DVB-S2 Downlink Reception with Mobile Terminals 551
Broadband Mobile Satellite Services: The Ku- band Revolution 563
Flower Constellations for Telemedicine Services 579
Analysis of the Robustness of Filtered Multitone Modulation Schemes Over Satellite Channels 589
VeRT Prototype Architecture and First Trials Campaign Results 603
Perspectives in Satellite Communications 616
ISI – The Integral SatCom Initiative Towards FP7 617
Diversity Reception Over Correlated Ricean Fading Satellite Channels 621
Application of Long Erasure Codes and ARQ Schemes for Achieving High Data Transfer Performance Over Long Delay Networks 631
Interconnection of Laboratory Equipment via Satellite and Space Links: Investigating the Performance of Software Platforms for the Management of Measurement Instrumentation 645
A Common Representation of QoS Levels for Resource Allocation in Hybrid Satellite/ Terrestrial Networks 655
Broadband Satellite Communication in EHF Band 672
Iterative Demapping and Decoding for DVB- S2 Communications 690
New Perspectives in the WAVE W-Band Satellite Project 704
HAP-LEO Link Communication Systems Based on Optical Technology 713
Integrated Broadband Wireless Network 726
Unscented Filtering for LEO Satellite Orbit Determination 736
Index 749