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In low Earth orbit (LEO) communication systems, phased array beamforming antennas are extensively used on the terminal and satellite sides. The main purpose of such antennas is electrical beam steering without using any mechanical devices. With this, the beam has to follow the overflight trajectory. However, phased array antennas only have a limited set of discrete beam steering directions, which ...Show More
Phased array beam forming antennas are widely used in LEO satellite systems as well as in ground terminals. Those electrically steerable antennas (ESA) operate in discrete steering angles, which leads to an antenna gain fading, when the Tx and Rx pointing directions are not aligned precisely. As the pointing alignment precision varies continuously during a satellite flyover, the antenna gain will ...Show More
This paper proposes a blind beam acquisition and switching strategy for DVB-S2(X) applications in low earth orbit satellite systems. No position, location and orientation information are required. The algorithm uses regular dummy frames to estimate the best-suited antenna beam iteratively from a candidate list. The best beam pair is determined based on carrier-to-noise estimation. We describe in d...Show More
This paper proposes an efficient memory-based prediction method for the antenna gain loss of phased array beamforming antennas in LEO satellite communication systems during overflight situations. The gain loss is caused by the limited set of discrete antenna beam pointing vectors which leads to a nonoptimal antenna steering and thus to a time-varying receiving power. The algorithm uses a pre-compu...Show More
This paper proposes a neural network-based time-series predictor for the antenna gain loss of phased array beam-forming antennas in LEO satellite communication systems. The gain loss is caused by the limited set of discrete antenna beam pointing vectors which leads to a non-optimal antenna steering and thus to a varying receiving power. The main purpose of the predictor is to reduce the fixed marg...Show More
A new microstrip combline filter with adjustable center frequency and bandwidth is proposed. The design is based on a double sided varactor loaded resonators and a resonant defected ground structures. Detailed filter design equations are given and explained. To validate the proposed structure, a second-order prototype filter is designed and fabricated with a relative bandwidth of 10 to 15 % and a ...Show More