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Development Status of Small-Sized Ka-band Mobile Terminal for Maritime Broadband Communications

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Most recent development status of small-sized Ka-band mobile communications terminal is presented. The terminal is designed to operate at a minimum target speed of 5 Mbps to/from a Ka-band geostationary satellite, and will eventually be used for the purpose of research activity to explore marine resources within the Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) of Japan. The terminal is placed on Autonomous Surface Vehicle (ASV). Because the ASV is “unmanned” and is primarily controlled from a remote ground control station, several mechanisms are embedded into the design for safe and successful operations of the Ka-band terminal. Those key mechanisms are introduced in this paper as they make fault diagnosis easier and increase overall system reliability in case of primary communication channel failure.

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The authors greatly appreciate useful and kind advices, comments, and supports made by JEPICO and EM Solutions. It is emphasized that this development work of Ka-band mobile communications terminal is one of the critical element of Next-generation Technology for Ocean Resources Exploration, which constitutes one of the highly-prioritized Strategic Innovation Promotion Programs (abbreviated as “SIP programs”) of Cabinet Office, Government of Japan. Ten SIP programs have been implemented since 2014 and they plan to continue until March 2019.

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  1. National Institute of Information and Communication Technology (NICT), 4-2-1 Nukui-Kitamachi Koganei, Tokyo, 184-8795, Japan

    Norihiko Katayama & Naoko Yoshimura

  2. JEPICO Corporation, Shinjuku Front Tower 2-21-1, Kita-Shinjuku Shinjuku-Ku, Tokyo, 169-0074, Japan

    Hideo Takamatsu, Susumu Kitazume & Yosuke Takahara

  3. EM Solutions, 55 Curzon Street, Tennyson, Queensland, 4105, Australia

    Marshall Lewis & Rowan Gilmore

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Correspondence to Hideo Takamatsu .

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  1. Faculty of Computing, University of South Wales, Cardiff, United Kingdom

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  2. University of Bradford, Bradford, United Kingdom

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  3. The University of Sheffield , Thessaloniki, Greece

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  4. University of Siena , Siena, Italy

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Katayama, N. et al. (2017). Development Status of Small-Sized Ka-band Mobile Terminal for Maritime Broadband Communications. In: Otung, I., Pillai, P., Eleftherakis, G., Giambene, G. (eds) Wireless and Satellite Systems. WiSATS 2016. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, vol 186. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-53850-1_2

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