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performance <strong>of</strong> the satellite communications to be networked to <strong>and</strong> that eachunit <strong>of</strong> a particular equipment closely match the performance <strong>of</strong> the other. Thisensures that the overall system is consistently superior with a high reliabilityfactor, thereby guaranteeing high performance.System CapacityVideo (TV), voice (telephone), <strong>and</strong> data signals from users via the publicswitcheddata networks (e.g., integrated service digital network, or ISDN) arebrought through the terrestrial link (e.g., optical fiber, twisted pair cable,coaxial cable, microwave link) from different sources to the earth station.Terrestrial links are investigated in Sec. 3.5. ISDN basically evolved fromtelephone networks with an emphasis on multiplexing <strong>and</strong> switching arrangements,<strong>of</strong>fering a variety <strong>of</strong> services to a large number <strong>of</strong> users. ISDN isexplored in Chap. 8. Naturally, an earth station may accept traffic from anumber <strong>of</strong> independent terrestrial carriers. The carriers may have beenassembled in different access formats (e.g., TDMA, FDMA, or CDMA—more about these access formats appears in Chap. 5). In some applications,earth stations may operate in a transponding mode with the same or differentassemblies, in which received satellite signals are used to initiate a retransmissionfrom the station to another station or to the satellite. As such, it maybe necessary to extract a few channels from each <strong>of</strong> a number <strong>of</strong> largeassemblies <strong>and</strong> to disassemble them to the channel level. In this case theamount <strong>of</strong> demultiplexing necessary at the earth station may be substantial.The goal <strong>of</strong> this section is to estimate the channel capacity.To enhance the reader’s underst<strong>and</strong>ing <strong>of</strong> the subject matter, this sectionbriefly introduces information theory <strong>and</strong> then explains channel capacityanalysis. By mastering the basic information theory, the reader will be ableto move on to concrete realizations without great difficulty.Information Theory. Information theory deals with the mathematicalmodelling <strong>and</strong> analysis <strong>of</strong> a communication system. It provides limits onThe minimum number <strong>of</strong> bits per symbol required to fully represent theinformation source.The maximum rate at which reliable communication can take place overthe channel, known as the Shannon bound. The Shannon boundprovides the motivation for coding.Source Information <strong>and</strong> Entropy. Figure 3.19 represents a generalizedsimple model <strong>of</strong> a digital communication system. The source data contains MCopyright © 2002 by Marcel Dekker, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

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