Project Leader: Associate Professor Rein Vesilo (Macquarie University)
Participants: Macquarie University, Australian National University
Channel models for optical space communication are vital to design
and manage optical satellite links, especially for ground-space
communication through the atmosphere. There is an identified need
among a number of partner organisations of SmartSat for accurate and
reliable channel models.
The aim of this project is to scope the current research literature
and current practice in channel modelling to form the basis for
future optical channel modelling projects to provide theoretical and
practical resources to support the high-speed, high reliability and
highly adaptable communication capabilities needed for advanced
applications.
The scope of the project, including stage two, would consider link
impairments such as turbulence, pointing error, aperture effects and
various forms of shadowing and be incorporating techniques such as
adaptive optics, phase stablisation and diversity with the goal of
developing models as mathematically tractable as possible and
simulation and numerical techniques to enable models to be applicable
to as wide a range of scenarios as possible. Models will be validated
using data as realistic whenever possible.