Advanced Satellite Communications Research

New algorithm strategies and diverse communication techniques are constantly emerging in the telecommunications realm that consumers, commercial, government, and military demand in order to push the boundaries of data throughput to receive information as quickly as possible. Currently, the Ku/Ka satellite band (20–30 GHz) becomes congested during peak service. There has been a strong demand for a wider bandwidth and higher data rate in both cellular and satellite communication service. As the carrier frequency increases, a wider bandwidth can be made available, and a higher data rate can be obtained with beamforming or precoding. Particularly, the V band (50–75 GHz) and W band (75–110 GHz) offer unprecedented broadband capabilities and extremely large contiguous allocations of bandwidth. This is the reason NASA and AFRL have been investigating these bands for civilian and military use.