Santos K Das

Work place: Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering National Institute of Technology Rourkela, India

E-mail: dassk@nitrkl.ac.in

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Research Interests: Computational Science and Engineering, Computer systems and computational processes, Computer Architecture and Organization, Embedded System, Data Structures and Algorithms

Biography

Santos K Das is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, National Institute of Technology, Rourkela, India. He received MS from IISc Bangalore, India, in 2002. He has worked in a number of organizations both in India as well as in abroad in various capacities. He has served on the Program Committee of a number of international conferences. He is a member of the IEEE. His research interest includes Computer, Sensor, Optical Networking, and Embedded system.

Author Articles
Performance Analysis of Inter-Satellite Optical Wireless Communication

By Vinod Kiran K Sarath V S Vikram Kumar Ashok K Turuk Santos K Das

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5815/ijcnis.2017.04.03, Pub. Date: 8 Apr. 2017

The evolution of optical communications systems from long fibers to robust wireless system has led to the idea of connecting two satellites using an optical wireless link. The rapid developments in satellite communication point to the possibilities of satellite networks as a method for them to communicate with each other. The optical wireless communication (OWC) enables the information exchange between satellites at higher speed and also a satellite can act as a relay between two satellites or between a satellite and ground base station. Light signal of high frequency is used as a carrier for the optical link between satellites and lasers are commonly used as a source of light. One of the primary reasons for preferring OWC over RF link is high data rate with acceptable bit error rate (BER). The communication between two lower earth orbit (LEO) satellites is studied under this research work. The quality factor (Q-factor) or BER is used as a key metric to analyze the performance of the inter-satellite link (ISL). This work presents the performance enhancement of the system by using multiple antennas and advanced modulation techniques.

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