Mobile and Personal Satellite Communications

I: Services, markets and regulatory issues.- System, Market and Regulatory Aspects for Satellite Personal Communications.- Technical Alternatives for Satellite Mobile Networks.- II: Concepts, systems and key technologies.- A Digital Transparent Satellite Payload Concept for Personal Mobile Satellite Communications: a VLSI Technology Review.- Multi-Media Satellite Mobile Services and Systems.- An Overview of CDMA Techniques for Mobile and Personal Satellite Communications.- Payload Design Alternatives for Geostationary Personal Communications Satellites.- III: Processing and network aspects.- Interworking Procedures Between Cellular Networks and Satellite Systems.- Network Aspects on the Integration Between the UMTS Network and Satellite Systems.- Gateway Earth Stations for Future LEO Communications Satellite Systems.- Aspects of Satellite Constellation and System Connectivity Analysis.- Networking and Signalling Aspects of a Satellite Personal Communications Network.- IV: Channel and radiofrequency aspects.- Channel Characterization for Mobile Satellite Communications.- Channel Models for Mobile/Personal Satellite Communication Systems.- Propagation Models for the Land Mobile Satellite Channel: Validation Aspects.- Advances in Modulation and Coding for the Satellite Mobile Channel.- V: Panel papers.- Mobile/Personal Satcoms System Alternatives—Satellite and Network Aspects.- Market Prospective: Satellite Mobile Multi-Media Services and Systems.- GLOBALSTAR System: an Overview.- Strategy of Alenia Spazio in Mobile Communications.- Standards for Satellite Personal Communications Networks.- System Alternatives for Satellite Personal Communications: a Satellite Manufacturer’s View.- The Developments of Euteltracs and Some Lessons for Future Systems.