Overview Cooperative diversity (CD) is a physical hardware arrangement technique that uses multiple antennas to improve a network's total channel capacity for any set of bandwidths. In traditional ...

Overview Fiber-optic cables must be installed from one point to the next to enable optical communications. The quality of those cables is important to the performance of an optical communications ...

Overview A cognitive diversity network (CDN) is an amalgamation of many different networking processes contributing to the operation of one network. "Cognitive diversity" is the difference in ...

Overview The Consultative Committee for Space Data Systems (CCSDS) is a multinational forum formed in 1982 to discuss common problems in the development and creation of space communications systems. ...

Overview Free-Space Optics (FSO) communication, also called free-space optical communication, is an optical communication technology that uses light propagating in free space to wirelessly send a ...

Overview BRIDGECOMM, INC. (previously known as BridgeSat) is an American company specializing in optical wireless communications applications. Their goal is to create "a global network of optical ...

Overview Signal-to-Noise Ratio (SNR) is a measure used to directly compare the strength of a signal relative to background noise. SNR is often expressed in decibles using the equation where represents ...

Overview Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. (Ball Aerospace, for short) is an American-based company specializing in space programs and services. Their mainline products include spacecrafts and ...

Overview The bit-error rate (BER) is the number of countable bit errors encountered in a data stream over a certain period of time. Common reasons for bit errors include channel noise, signal ...

Overview Turbulence is a phenomenon in fluid mechanics created by unpredictable changes in pressure and flow velocity. Atmospheric turbulence follows the same mechanics. For optics, since pressure and ...