Advances in Communications Satellite Systems: Proceedings of The 37th International Communications Satellite Systems Conference (ICSSC-2019)

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Ifiok Otung is a chartered engineer and professor of satellite communications at the University of South Wales (USW) UK. He earned a PhD in Satellite Communications from the University of Surrey UK in 1995. His areas of expertise include mobile and satellite communication systems and radio wave propagation. He has supervised many PhDs and contributed to numerous publications in technical journals and international conference proceedings. Professor Otung is also the author of several major textbooks including Communication Engineering Principles (Wiley 2020) and Digital Communications Principles and Systems (IET 2014). He is a member of the IET and AIAA. Thomas Butash is the founder (2011) and principal of Innovative Aerospace Information Systems (IS) a company providing consulting services on state-of-the-art aerospace IS with a focus on communications satellite systems design. Previously Dr. Butash was a technical director and engineering fellow at BAE Systems (formerly Lockheed Martin Loral and IBM) Space Systems & Electronics with more than 30 years' experience in communications satellite systems development. Dr. Butash is an AIAA Fellow. Tetsushi Ikegami is a professor of telecommunication in the Department of Electronics and Bioinformatics Meiji University Kawasaki Japan. Before his professorship he led ETS-V ETS-VI COMETS Mobile and Ka and mm-waveband satellite experimental teams at the Kashima Space Research Center of the Communications Research Laboratory (CRL now NICT). He has served as Technical Program and General Chairs of several international conferences including IWUWBS2005 ISCIT2012 ISSSTA2012 ISMICT2013 ISMICT2020 etc. He is an IEICE fellow and a member of IEEE.