Об этом курсе: How is a satellite built? How do they fly? How do they communicate and how does the network operate? You will get all the answers in this course from teachers and researchers from three schools associated with Institut Mines-Télécom. The course is made of : teaching videos, equipment demonstrations and simulation programs. They will guide you through the discovery of satellite communications. Professionals in the space field will share there vocation for this scientific and technical sector. Have you ever wanted to know more about transponders, the geostationary orbit, QPSK modulation, channel coding, link budget, TCP over large bandwdith x delay product links ? This course is for you! This course is available in English: French-speaking lecturers with English subtitles and fully translated contents (slides, practices). This MOOC is supported by the Patrick and Lina Drahi Foundation.
Автор: Institut Mines-Télécom
Преподаватели: Laurent Franck, Professor
IMT Atlantique, on leave to Airbus Defence & Space as of September 1st, 2017
Преподаватели: Tarik Benaddi, Assistant Professor
IMT Atlantique
Преподаватели: Julien Fasson, Associate Professor
INPT/ENSEEIHT
Преподаватели: Nathalie Thomas, Associate professor
INPT/ENSEEIHT
Преподаватели: Marie-Laure Boucheret, Professor
INPT/ENSEEIHT
| Уровень | Beginner |
| Выполнение | 6 weeks of study, 2-4 hours/week |
| Язык | English, Субтитры: French |
| Требования к аппаратным средствам | No hardware is required for this MOOC |
| Как пройти курс | Чтобы пройти курс, выполните все оцениваемые задания. |
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Программа курса
НЕДЕЛЯ 1
Satellites at our service
This module provides an introduction to satellite communications. Why using satellites ? What sort of communication services ? How much does it cost ?
27 видео, 4 материала для самостоятельного изучения, 7 тренировочных теста
- Reading: Let's start!
- Видео: Learning in six weeks (or more, or less)
- Reading: The course contents in the blink of an eye
- Reading: Getting the most from diverse contents
- Reading: Practicing with the LabVIEW(tm) educational programs
- Practice Quiz: Warm up quiz
- Видео: Introduction
- Видео: The conquest
- Видео: The challenges
- Practice Quiz: Practice quiz, PQ1-1
- Видео: Conclusion
- Видео: Going further: the Van Allen belt
- Видео: Introduction
- Видео: The first steps
- Practice Quiz: Practice quiz, PQ1-2
- Видео: Communications capacity
- Видео: Communications satellites today
- Practice Quiz: Practice quiz, PQ1-3
- Видео: Conclusion
- Видео: Going further: communications capacity (the return)
- Видео: Introduction & strengths of satellites
- Видео: A variety of services
- Practice Quiz: Practice quiz, PQ1-4
- Видео: Conclusion
- Видео: Going further: positioning in networks
- Видео: Introduction & navigation
- Видео: Observation
- Видео: Conclusion
- Видео: Going further: space exploration
- Practice Quiz: Practice quiz, PQ1-5
- Видео: Introduction & the market players
- Видео: Economic elements
- Practice Quiz: Practice quiz, PQ1-6
- Видео: Conclusion
- Видео: Nathalie Font - marketing
- Видео: Remi Lapeyre - spacecraft operations
- Видео: Common thread: Internet by satellite
Оцениваемый: Weekly quiz, WQ1
НЕДЕЛЯ 2
Satellite and communications
This module describes the overall architecture of a satellite communications system, discusses the concept of orbit and what are the typical sub-systems of a satellite
21 видео, 2 материала для самостоятельного изучения, 6 тренировочных теста
- Видео: A matter of links
- Видео: System engineering
- Practice Quiz: Practice quiz, PQ2-1
- Видео: Laws of a space communication system
- Видео: Conclusion
- Видео: Going further: managing multiple access by terminals
- Practice Quiz: Practice quiz, PQ2-2
- Видео: Introduction
- Видео: Overview
- Видео: Various types of orbit
- Practice Quiz: Practice quiz, PQ2-3
- Видео: Relationship between orbit and service
- Видео: Conclusion
- Видео: Going further: Kepler lays down the law
- Practice Quiz: Practice quiz, PQ2-4
- Reading: LabVIEW educational program: orbits
- Reading: LabVIEW educational program: satellite position
- Видео: Introduction
- Видео: The platform and its subsystems
- Видео: Payload: antennas
- Practice Quiz: Practice quiz, PQ2-5
- Видео: Payload: repeater
- Видео: Conclusion
- Видео: Going further: repeater for mesh architecture
- Practice Quiz: Practice quiz, PQ2-6
- Видео: Patricia Iñigo Martinez - system engineering
- Видео: Nicolas Jacquey - payload engineering
- Видео: Common thread: Internet by satellite
Оцениваемый: Weekly quiz, WQ2
НЕДЕЛЯ 3
Digital communications
This module discusses the basics of information transmission
18 видео, 4 материала для самостоятельного изучения, 3 тренировочных теста
- Видео: Bit rate
- Видео: Bit error rate
- Видео: Conclusion
- Reading: Going further: signal digitization
- Practice Quiz: Practice quiz, PQ3-1
- Видео: Introduction
- Видео: Bit rate / symbol rate
- Видео: Concept of frequency
- Видео: Bandwidth occupied by the signal
- Видео: Bandwidth / rate relation
- Видео: Carrier transmission
- Видео: Conclusion
- Reading: Going further: signal shaping
- Practice Quiz: Practice quiz, PQ3-2
- Видео: Introduction
- Видео: Free space propagation
- Видео: Limited bandwidth
- Видео: Noise
- Видео: Conclusion
- Practice Quiz: Practice quiz, PQ3-3
- Reading: LabVIEW educational program: simple signals
- Reading: LabVIEW educational program: baseband modulation
- Видео: Mohamed Benseddik - regulatory affairs
- Видео: Common thread: Internet by satellite
Оцениваемый: Weekly quiz, WQ3
НЕДЕЛЯ 4
Communication techniques
This module covers advanced transmission concepts such as modulation and coding. These operations are the core of a communications system impacting the service performance.
17 видео, 4 материала для самостоятельного изучения, 5 тренировочных теста
- Видео: BPSK modulation
- Practice Quiz: Practice quiz, PQ4-1
- Видео: QPSK modulation
- Видео: QAM modulation
- Видео: PSK modulation
- Practice Quiz: Practice quiz, PQ4-2
- Видео: Demodulation
- Видео: Bit error rate (BER)
- Practice Quiz: Practice quizz, PQ4-3
- Видео: Conclusion
- Reading: Going further : I/Q demodulator
- Reading: Going further : APSK modulations
- Reading: LabVIEW educational program: DVB-S2 carrier modulation
- Reading: LabVIEW educational program: signal amplification
- Видео: Introduction
- Видео: Repetition Codes
- Видео: Binary block codes
- Practice Quiz: Practice quiz, PQ4-4
- Видео: The coding gain
- Видео: The impact of the code efficiency on the BER
- Practice Quiz: Practice quiz, PQ4-5
- Видео: Conclusion
- Видео: Bouchra Benammar - research and development
- Видео: Mathieu Dervin - research and development
- Видео: Common thread: Internet by satellite
Оцениваемый: Weekly quiz, WQ4
НЕДЕЛЯ 5
Hardware and equipments
This module lists the equipments that take part to the communication chain on ground and how the overall communication performance can be assessed
23 видео, 2 материала для самостоятельного изучения, 7 тренировочных теста
- Видео: Light terminals
- Видео: Portable, transportable and fixed terminals
- Practice Quiz: Practice quiz, PQ5-1
- Видео: Mobile terminals
- Видео: Conclusion
- Видео: Going further: functioning of an antenna with automatic pointing
- Practice Quiz: Practice quiz, PQ5-2
- Видео: Introduction
- Видео: Antennas
- Reading: Going further: everything you wanted to know about antennas ...
- Видео: RF elements
- Practice Quiz: Practice quiz, PQ5-3
- Видео: Frequency conversion and modems
- Видео: Interconnection with Earth
- Видео: Other aspects
- Видео: Conclusion
- Видео: Going further: monitoring the health of the satellite
- Practice Quiz: Practice quiz, PQ5-4
- Видео: Introduction
- Видео: Analog link budget
- Practice Quiz: Practice quiz, PQ5-5
- Видео: The noise component
- Видео: The end-to-end budget
- Practice Quiz: Practice quiz, PQ5-6
- Видео: Digital link budget
- Видео: Conclusion & Going further: other factors in the link budget
- Practice Quiz: Practice quiz, PQ5-7
- Reading: LabVIEW educational program: single link budget
- Видео: Cynthia Fontana - satellite transmissions
- Видео: Hervé Gaudefroy - products and services development
- Видео: Internet by satellite
Оцениваемый: Weekly quiz, WQ5
НЕДЕЛЯ 6
Networking and services
This module explains how services such as voice, television and Internet access are provided by means of communications satellites.
20 видео, 8 тренировочных теста
- Видео: Before the Internet
- Practice Quiz: Practice quiz, PQ6-1
- Видео: Internet and the notion of network
- Practice Quiz: Practice quiz, PQ6-2
- Видео: Interconnection and interoperability: a real issue
- Видео: The notion of protocol
- Practice Quiz: Practice quiz, PQ6-3
- Видео: Going further: Internet Protocol and the hourglass
- Видео: From analog to digital
- Practice Quiz: Practice quiz, PQ6-4
- Видео: DVB-S
- Видео: Evolutions
- Practice Quiz: Practice quiz, PQ6-5
- Видео: Independent systems
- Видео: Globalstar vs Iridium
- Practice Quiz: Practice quiz, PQ6-6
- Видео: Interconnection with mobile telephony networks
- Видео: Voice over IP
- Видео: Going further: Impact of a satellite link on QoS
- Practice Quiz: Practice quiz, PQ6-7
- Видео: What are we talking about?
- Видео: Need for a return link
- Видео: IP over satellite: the challenges
- Practice Quiz: Practice quiz, PQ6-8
- Видео: Sandrine Lafont - ground segments and services
- Видео: Alain Frizon - satellite programme
- Видео: Common thread: Internet by satellite
Оцениваемый: Weekly quiz, WQ6
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Авторы
Institut Mines-Télécom
Institut Mines-Télécom is a public institution dedicated to higher education, research and innovation in engineering and digital technologies.
Always attentive to the economic world, IMT combines strong academic legitimacy, close corporate relations. It focuses on key transformations in Digital Technologies, Production, Energy and Ecology and trains the engineers, managers and PhDs who will be tomorrow’s players in these key changes of the 21st century.
Its activities are conducted in Mines and Télécom graduate schools under the aegis of the Minister for Industry and Electronic Communication, one subsidiary school and three strategic partners. The IMT’s schools rank among the leading graduate schools in France.
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