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SATELLITE MULTIPLE ACCESSING

CHAPTER 26 ARRANGEMENTS

# DEFINITIONS TERMS

Also called as Multiple Destination, It implies that more than one

user has access to one or more radio channels within a satellite
communications channel.
1) Multiple Accessing Arrangement: Multiple Accessing
 Frequency-division multiple accessing (FDMA)
 Time-division multiple accessing (TDMA)
 Code-division multiple accessing (CDMA)

A given number of the available voice-band channels from each

2) Pre-assignment(dedicated)
earth station are assigned a dedicated destination.

Demand Assignment
3)
Voice channels are assigned on an as-needed basis.

The method of assigning adjacent channels different

4) electromagnetic polarizations and is possible by using orthogonal Frequency Reuse
polarization and spacing adjacent channels 20 MHz apart.

5) Eskimo word meaning “little brother”. Anik

Anik-E communications
6) Domestic Satellites operated by Telsat Canada. Satellite

A method of multiple accessing where a given RF bandwidth is FDMA

7)
divided into smaller frequency bands.

Multiple channel per carrier formats assigned and remain fixed for Fixed-Assignment, Multiple
8) a long Period of time. Access (FAMA)

Demand-Assignment
Assigning carrier frequency on temporary basis using a statistical
9) Multiple Access
assignment process.

10) SPADE

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An acronym for Single-channel-per-carrier PCM multiple Access

Demand-assignment Equipment.

11) SCPC
Stands for Single-Carrier-Per-Channel.

A time division-multiplexed transmission that is frequency Common Signaling Channel

12)
division multiplexed. (CSC)

The predominant Multiple-access method of time-division

multiplexing digitally modulated carriers between participating TDMA
13)
earth stations within a satellite network through a common
satellite transponder.

An RF-to-RF repeater that simply receives the earth station

14) transmissions, amplifies them, and then re-transmit them in a Transponder
downlink beam that is received by all other participating station.

Reference Burst
15) It is where transmissions from all earth stations are synchronized.

It is where all receiving stations recover a frequency and phase Carrier Recovery Sequence
16)
coherent carrier for PSK demodulation (CRS)

An acronym for Conference of European Postal and

CEPT
17) Telecommunications Administrations, is commonly used TDMA
frame format for digital satellite system

Sometimes referred to as Spread-Spectrum Multipleentire Code-Division Multiple

18)
allocated bandwidth Access, the transmissions can spread Access (CDMA)
throughout the

A unique binary word that each earth station’s transmissions are Chip Code
19)
encoded.

Correlator
20) It compare two signals and recover the original data.

It assigns an individual terrestrial channel (TC) to a particular Digital non interpolated

21) satellite channel (SC) for the duration of Interface
the call.

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It assigns a terrestrial channel to a Digital Speech

22) Interpolated Interface
satellite channel only when speech energy is present on the TC.

Time-Assignment
A form of analog channel compression that has been used for sub Speech Interpolation
23)
oceanic cables for many years. (TASI)

The art or science of plotting, ascertaining or directing the course

Navigation
24) of movements, in other words, knowing where you are and being
able to find your way around.

It is the most ancient and rudimentary method of

Wandering
25) navigation and simply continuing to travel about until you reach
your destination, assuming of course
that you have one.

Earliest effective means of navigation wherein direction and

distance are determined from precisely timed sightings of celestial
26) Celestial Navigation
bodies, including the stars and
moon.

Method of navigation by means of fixing a position and direction

Piloting
27) with respect to familiar, significant landmarks such as railroad
tracks, water towers, barns, mountains and bodies of water.

A navigation technique that determines position by extrapolating a Dead Reckoning

28)
series of measured velocity increments.

The term derived from the word “deduced” and not necessarily
29) from the fate of the people who used the Dead
technique.

He used dead reckoning successfully in 1927 during his historic Charles Lindbergh
30)
33-hour transatlantic journey.

She attempted to make the first around-the-world in 1937 using Amelia Earhart
31)
the dead reckoning technique.

32) Navigation technique wherein the position is deter-mined by Radio Navigation

measuring the travel time of an electro magnetic wave as it moves
from a transmitter to a receiver.

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33) A radio Navigation system for terrestrial surface broadcast. Decca

Radio Navigation system that provide global coverage and Omega

34)
terrestrial surface broadcast.

35) Also a terrestrial surface broadcast. LORAN

Navy Transit GPS

36)
Low-orbit satellite broadcast, provides global coverage.
Navstar GPS
37)
Medium-orbit satellite broadcast also provides global coverage.

Means of radio navigation in which receivers acquire Coded

38) LORAN
signals from two pairs of high-powered, land based transmitters
whose locations are precisely known.
Navstar
39) An acronym for Navigation System with Time and Ranging.

An abbreviation for Global Positioning System.

Two levels of service or accuracy: GPS
40)
 Standard Positioning Service
 Precise Positioning Service

A satellite-based open navigation system which simply means that

it is available to anyone equipped with a GPS receiver.

41) Consists of three segments: Navstar GPS

 a space segment
 a ground control segment
 user segment

It is when was the Navstar declared as fully operational by the

42) April 27, 1995
U.S. Air Force Space Command.

It was completed in 1994 and is maintained by the United States Navstar Satellite System
43)
Air Force.

A positioning and timing service that is available to all GPS users Standard Positioning
44) on a continuous, worldwide basis with Service
no direct change.

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Sometimes called Space Segment, consists of 24operational

satellites revolving around Earth in six Satellite Segment
45)
orbital planes approximately 60° apart with four satellites in each
plane.

It produces highly accurate timing signals for satellites.

46) Cesium Atomic Clock

Pseudorandom Noise
47) A unique integer number that is used to encrypt the signal from (PRN) Code Number
that satellite.

A term associated with a table showing the position of a heavenly Ephemeris

48)
body on a number dates in a regular
sequence, in essence, an astronomical almanac.

Error in the receiver’s clock which affects the accuracy of the Clock Bias Error
49)
time-difference measurement.

The Navstar control segment.

It consists of : Operational Control
50)  Fixed-location ground based monitor stations System
 Master Control Station
 uplink transmitter

It makes standard GPS more accurate. It works by canceling out

51) most of the natural and man-made Differential GPS
errors that creep into normal GPS measurements.

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