This book gathers the contributions from The 36th International Communications Satellite Systems Conference (ICSSC-2018) held in October 2018.

• Section 1: Multi-beam Satellite Systems
  
  
  • Chapter 1: Symbol vs block level precoding in multi-beam satellite systems
  
  
  • Chapter 2: Hardware Demonstration of Precoded Communications in Multi-Beam UHTS
  
  
  • Chapter 3: On the capacity of asynchronous cooperative NOMA in multibeam satellite systems
  
  
  • Chapter 4: Overlapping clustering for beam-hopping systems
  
  
  • Chapter 5: Adjacent beams resource sharing to serve hot spots: a rate-splitting approach
  
  
  
  
  
• Section 2: Cognitive Communications and Propagation Channel Optimization
  
  
  • Chapter 6: Time Correlation Used to Improve Time Diversity Gain of Rainfall Prediction
  
  
  • Chapter 7: Protection of the Mobile Station from the Interference by Maritime Earth Station in Motion in the 28 GHZ Band
  
  
  • Chapter 8: Rateless codes for satellite systems over rain fading channels
  
  
  • Chapter 9: Channel States Information based Spectrum Sensing Algorithm in Satellite Cognitive Communication Networks
  
  
  • Chapter 10: Wideband nonlinearities correction in digital payloads channels with parallel architectures
  
  
  
  
  
• Section 3: Flexible High Throughput Satellite Systems and Interference Mitigation Techniques
  
  
  • Chapter 11: Modifications to Multi-beam Systems for DRRM
  
  
  • Chapter 12: Adaptive Resources Allocation for Flexible Payload enabling VHTS systems: Methodology and Architecture
  
  
  • Chapter 13: Adaptive Onboard Compensation of Non-Linear HPAs and Imperfect Butler Matrices in Multiport Amplifiers for High Throughput Satellites
  
  
  • Chapter 14: Distributed precoding for multiple satellite systems with overlapping coverage areas
  
  
  • Chapter 15: Productized Multicarrier Predistortion Total Throughput Gains around 20% over Linearized Channels in True Customer Use Cases
  
  
  • Chapter 16: A mitigation technique for adjacent channel interference in communication satellites
  
  
  
  
  
• Section 4: New Satellite System Architectures and Components
  
  
  • Chapter 17: Novel RF architectures and technologies for VSAT
  
  
  • Chapter 18: A Modular Architecture for Low Cost Phased Array Antenna System for Ka-Band Mobile Satellite Communication
  
  
  • Chapter 19: A cots-based software-defined communication system platform and applications in LEO
  
  
  • Chapter 20: V-band low-noise amplifier module for high throughput satellite applications
  
  
  • Chapter 21: Satellite payload design for cislunar communications
  
  
  
  
  
• Section 5: High Speed Optical Communications and Feeder Links
  
  
  • Chapter 22: Alphasat, Sentinel-1A/B, Sentinel-2A/B, and EDRS Paving the Way for Systematic Optical Data Transfer for Earth Observation Missions
  
  
  • Chapter 23: Diversity Architectures for High Data Rate Ground-to-Satellite Optical and EHF Links
  
  
  • Chapter 24: Research and development approach to realize flexible optical ground network operations for effective data downlink from space to ground
  
  
  
  
  
• Section 6: VHF Data Exchange Systems
  
  
  • Chapter 25: On the VHF radio channel for the data exchange system via satellite (VDE-SAT); experimental results from the NORSAT-2 satellite experiment
  
  
  • Chapter 26: Field trials of the VHF data exchange system (VDES) satellite downlink component
  
  
  
  
  
• Section 7: Mobile Satellite Systems and Bandwidth Efficient Techniques
  
  
  • Chapter 27: Mobility enhancement for digital video broadcast networks via satellite
  
  
  • Chapter 28: System level modelling of DVB-S2X in high throughput satellite system
  
  
  • Chapter 29: Demonstration of Autonomous Bandwidth Allocation Scheme using SC-FDMA subcarrier switching
  
  
  • Chapter 30: Robust initial access technique of spread spectrum based on DVB-RCS2 standard for mobile application
  
  
  • Chapter 31: Beam-hopping over-the-air tests using DVB-S2X super-framing
  
  
  
  
  
• Section 8: Transmitter and Modern Technologies
  
  
  • Chapter 32: Maximizing data throughput in earth observation satelliteto ground transmission by employing a flexible high data rate transmitter operating in X-Band and Ka-Band
  
  
  • Chapter 33: Implementation of a Machine Learning Based Modulation Scheme in GNURadio for Over-the-Air Packet Communications
  
  
  • Chapter 34: An efficiency comparison between timeslicing and multi-carrier transmission for linearized transponders
  
  
  
  
  
• Section 9: 5G and Satellite Networks Integration
  
  
  • Chapter 35: Efficient 5G Edge Caching Over Satellite
  
  
  • Chapter 36: Use cases to business modelling of satellite backhaul in 5G
  
  
  • Chapter 37: 5G technologies for a communications and navigation integrated infrastructure on moon and mars
  
  
  
  
  
• Section 10: Satellite Networks Design Challenges and Applications
  
  
  • Chapter 38: Capacity enhancement and interference management for interactive satellite networks
  
  
  • Chapter 39: VLEO Satellites - a New Earth Observation Space Systems Commercial and Business Model
  
  
  • Chapter 40: Towards the Internet for Space: bringing cloud computing to space systems