Prof. Dr. Michel Bousquet
Michel Bousquet is a Professor at ISAE, the French Aerospace Engineering Institute of Higher Education in Toulouse (formerly SUPAERO). He is in charge of graduate and post-graduate programmes in aerospace communications and navigation. His research interests cover several aspects of satellite communications and navigation (physical and access layers, system architecture and performance...), within the TeSA co-operative research laboratory (www.tesa.prd.fr). He has been involved in many national and european projects dealing with satellites and he is a member of the Steering Board of SatNEx, the European Network of Excellence in satellite communications.
Editor-in-Chief of the Space Communications Journal, member of the Editorial Boards of several technical journals, he is active in promoting R&D results from European universities and industry through participation in Technical Committees of several international conferences (IEEE, AIAA and others). He has authored or co-authored many publications, including textbooks such as " Satellite Communications Systems " published by Wiley.
Lecture: Basics of Satellite Communications Systems
This lecture gives a broad introduction to satellite communications applications. An overview on satellite systems is provided: system architecture depending on application, type of orbits of interest and related communication architecture, etc. The components of the system are presented: communication satellite platform and payload organisation, ground terminal architecture and multiple access issues, etc. The evolution in terms of technology, systems architecture and services conclude the presentation.
Lecture: Satellite Communication Link
The radiofrequency link plays a significant role in the performance of communication and navigation systems. Link performance is defined as the carrier power to noise power spectral density ratio at the receiver input and the main parameters and factors conditioning the link performance are discussed. The lecture shows how the link performance requirements are derived from the end user performance objectives (i.e. Bit Error Rate) through the modulation and coding characteristics, and introduces the concept of adaptive systems.