Research Catalog
Communications satellite systems
- Title
- Communications satellite systems / James Martin.
- Author
- Martin, James, 1933-2013.
- Publication
- Englewood Cliffs, N.J. : Prentice-Hall, ©1978.
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Details
- Description
- xv, 398 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Summary
- Monograph on communications satellites and their future potential - discusses the outer space segment (incl. Satellite links and construction, orbit and inclination, transmission losses, etc.), and the ground segment (incl. Multiplexing, modulation, data transmission, packet radio terminals, data protection, trade-offs in systems design, interactive computing, etc.). Diagrams, graphs and illustrations.
- Series Statement
- Prentice-Hall series in automatic computation
- Uniform Title
- Prentice-Hall series in automatic computation
- Subject
- Artificial satellites in telecommunication
- communications satellites
- Artificial satellites in telecommunication
- Kommunikationssatellit
- Nachrichtenübertragungstechnik
- Satellit
- Satellitenfunk
- communications satellite
- future
- outer space
- radio
- data protection
- systems design
- COMMUNICATION SATELLITES
- satellite de communication
- futur
- espace extraterrestre
- protection des données
- conception de systèmes
- satélite de comunicaciones
- futuro
- espacio extraterrestre
- protección de los datos
- diseño de sistemas
- Genre/Form
- graph.
- illustration.
- graphique.
- gráfico.
- ilustración.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographies and index.
- Contents
- pt. I. The space segment. The promise of space ; Satellite links ; Orbits and inclination ; Satellite construction ; The environment of space ; Transmission losses ; Noise ; Frequencies ; Trade-offs in satellite design -- pt. II. The ground segment. Multiplexing ; Modulation ; PCM and delta modulation ; Uses of digital channels ; Multiple access and demand assignment ; Frequency-division multiple access ; Time-division multiple access ; Errors in transmission ; Uses of satellite circuits for data transmission ; Uses of satellite for interactive computing ; ALOHA channels ; Packet radio terminals ; Burst reservation systems ; Availability ; Privacy and security ; Trade-offs in systems design.
- ISBN
- 0131531638
- 9780131531635
- LCCN
- 78005247
- OCLC
- ocm03845243
- 3845243
- SCSB-9302535
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library