Cooperative Deep Space Communications at Ka Band: Outage Performance Analysis

Author

Arapoglou, Pantelis-Daniel ; Panagopoulos, Athanasios ; Bertinelli, M.

Author_Institution

Sch. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Nat. Tech. Univ. of Athens, Athens, Greece

fYear

2010

fDate

13-19 June 2010

Firstpage

5

Lastpage

10

Abstract

In this paper, a preliminary investigation is carried out on the possible advantages of employing cooperative diversity to support next generation deep space networks envisaged to operate at Ka band. The background idea is to benefit from recent advances in cooperative protocols by relaying downlink signals from the spacecraft through a geostationary satellite to mitigate tropospheric fading. Numerical comparisons based on the outage probability for practical system parameters reveal great performance improvements.

Keywords

diversity reception; probability; protocols; space communication links; Ka band; cooperative deep space communications; cooperative diversity; cooperative protocols; geostationary satellite; next generation deep space networks; outage performance analysis; outage probability; tropospheric fading; Artificial satellites; Downlink; Earth; Fading; Network topology; Performance analysis; Protocols; Relays; Space missions; Space vehicles; cooperative diversity; deep space; rain attenuation; satellite communications;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Advances in Satellite and Space Communications (SPACOMM), 2010 Second International Conference on

Conference_Location

Athens

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-7275-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SPACOMM.2010.24

Filename

5502665