NovelSat System Performance

Technology Overview

Version 1.0
December 2013

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Contents
1. Introduction 2
2. NovelSat advantages How are they achieved? 2
3. Improved Spectral Efficiency 3
3.1 Spectral Efficiency Demonstration 4
5.3.3. Actual performance 5
3.2 Spectral Efficiency for a NovelSat DUET System 6
4. NovelSat Signal Spectrum 8
4.1 Spectrum - Single carrier per transponder, saturated channel 8
5. Resilience to Impairments 10
5.1 Performance in Saturation 10
5.2 Performance with strong phase noise 10
5.3 Resilience to Jamming 12
6.3.3. Test Setup 12
7.3.3. Test flow 12
5.3.3. Results 13
6. Performance Tables 15
7. Conclusions 18
8. References 18
1 About NovelSat 19
8.1 Contact Information 19

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1. Introduction
This is an overview describing, in detail, how the advantages of the NovelSat
NS3000 satellite modem are achieved. In addition, test results are provided
which demonstrate NovelSat NS3 system performance. DVB-S2 has proven to
be a successful, well-engineered industry standard. For a long time the general
belief in the industry has been that improvements over it would be marginal at
best, and until recently no effort has been made to develop a more advanced
standard.
NovelSat, on the other hand, took on the complex challenge of improving
spectral efficiency in satellite transmission and to create a 3rd Generation
Satellite Modulation Protocol. In 2011, after three years of work, NovelSat
succeeded in releasing the first commercial NovelSat NS3 family of modulators
and demodulators, which provide, on average, 40% and up to 60% increased
throughput compared with DVB-S2 in the typical range, and up to 37% in the
highest signal to noise range.
With NovelSat DUET echo cancelling technology, the required bandwidth for a
two-way link is reduced by two, doubling the effective spectrum efficiency.
Depending on the application and on the satellites bandwidth cost, the
resulting savings can reach tens of thousands of dollars per month for wideband
applications such as DSNG links, cellular backhaul, etc.
Add to that the ability of NovelSat NS3 to support high bandwidths, its superior
resilience to saturation, interference, phase noise and jamming and it is clear
why NovelSat NS3 has earned its 3rd generation label.

2. NovelSat advantages How are they achieved?

The superior performance of NovelSat NS3 is a combination of a number of
innovative, state-of-the-art methods:
1) New LDPC matrices and improved LDPC decoder for improved
performance and granularity, mainly with existing constellation mapping at
lower SNR and with new constellation mapping.
2) New constellation mapping We add 64APSK in order to optimize the
performance at SNR where DVB-S2 uses 32ASK.
3) Roll-off factor reduction we reduce the minimal roll-off factor to 5% and
have improved the synchronization circuits on the receiver side in order to
support such a low roll-off.
4) Faster Than Nyquist (FTN) signaling FTN signaling is a way to increase the
symbol-rate over a given bandwidth. From that perspective it is similar to
roll-off factor reduction. FTN signaling results in intentional ISI on the
transmitter side, which can be reduced by the transmitter and receiver
using precoding and advanced equalization.

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 5) NovelSat DUETTM (software-based echo cancellation) for both video and
data which enables reusing the same channel for transmission to and from
the satellite on both ends of a link, effectively doubling the spectral
efficiency.
6) NLPD and non-linear equalization important in practical conditions that
involve non-linear channels, and are essential when combined with some of
the capacity-boost methods described above and are also beneficial in
backward compatible DVB-S2 mode.
7) Dynamic adaptation on the receive side.
8) Resilience to impairment such as phase noise, interference and jamming.
In the following sections, a set of demonstration and simulation results will be
presented showing the superior performance of the NovelSat NS3-based
modems in:
Spectral efficiency and capacity
Spectral mask
Performance in deep saturation
Resilience to phase noise
Resilience to jamming
Resilience to weather fluctuations both on receive and transmit side
3. Improved Spectral Efficiency
Improving the spectral efficiency is the main goal of NovelSat NS3 development.
The new LDPC codes, new constellation, reduction of the roll off factor and
Faster than Nyquist sampling are the means to achieve this goal.
Reducing the LDPC code rate is not trivial. For example, the lowest rate
supported by DVB-S2 with 16APSK is 2/3. Using DVB-S2 at a lower code rate of
3/5 with 16APSK will result in worse performance than with 8PSK and code rate
. Probably this is the main reason that such an option was omitted from the
DVB-S2 standard. The main limitation that the code performance breaks-down
at lower SNR is that the decoder has been assumed to have the structure of a Bit
Interleaved Code Modulation (BICM) decoder. The performance of such a
decoder is upper-bounded by the BICM capacity which is even lower than the
symbol-constrained capacity, especially at low SNR.
In order to improve the performance NovelSat uses the LDPC iterative-decoder
structure presented in Figure 1:

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 Figure 1 LDPC Iterative Decoder structure

The novelty of this structure is the feedback path that enables re-calculation of
the bit-LLRs based on extrinsic information from the LDPC BICM decoder. While
such a decoder improved the performance, also of DVB-S2 codes, it is not
enough. In order to benefit the maximum gain of such a decoder new LDPC
codes were designed, taking into consideration in advance the structure of the
improved LDPC decoder.

3.1 Spectral Efficiency Demonstration

To demonstrate the advanced performance of the coding and new constellation
scheme, a test was conducted at the Satellite 2011 show. A chart of the
demonstration setup is shown in Figure 2 and a live picture of the
demonstration is shown in Figure 3.

Figure 2: Demonstration setup scheme

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 Figure 3: Demonstration setup live picture

5.3.3. Actual performance

The actual performance of the NS3 protocol and DVB-S21 is shown in Figure 4.
Performance Comparison
5.5
DVB-S2
5 NS3

4.5

4
Ru [bits/sec/Hz]

3.5

2.5

1.5

1
6 8 10 12 14 16 18
CNR [dB]

1 Measured at 30Mbaud with the NS2000. Keep in mind that while the NovelSat implementation loss for
DVB-S2 is negligible, implementation losses in DVB-S2 of competitors equipment can be substantial.
Documented competitor implementation losses explain why actual NS3 performance improvements in
the field are greater than what we show in this chart.

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 Figure 4: Nominal performance chart

The horizontal axis represents the Carrier to Noise Ratio (CNR2) in dB, and the
vertical axis represents the spectral efficiency in bits/sec/Hz. The CNR was
measured at Quasi Error Free as defined by the DVB-S2 standard3. As can be
seen, NovelSat NS3 is better than the DVB-S2 protocol at all CNR values.
Especially for high CNR regions, where the standard does not support the higher
order modulation.
More details on the test and additional results can be found in [1].

3.2 Spectral Efficiency for a NovelSat DUET System

With NovelSat DUET, it is possible to allocate, in a two-way link, the same
frequency channel for each of the uplink and downlink channels, thus reducing
the spectrum allocation requirements and increasing spectral efficiency.
NovelSat DUET is software-based echo cancelling technology which cancels the
echo of the uplink transmission, re-transmitted by the satellite at the downlink
frequency, from the inbound signal arriving from the other base station. The
system uses a replica of the transmitted signal to cancel out its echo, including
the offsets in delay, frequency and channel distortions it underwent. The
resulting performance can be seen in Figure 5: Performance chart , which
shows the spectral efficiency in the case where both earth stations have the
same bandwidth. Per a single link, NovelSat DUET echo cancellation introduces a
very small degradation (Merely 0.01-0.1 dB in most relevant SNR conditions, and
up to 0.38dB at the highest Modcod 64APSK 9/10).

2 In this document the term CNR refers to the power ratio between the carrier and the noise within the
occupied bandwidth, while SNR refers to the ratio of the maximal spectral densities of the two.
3 EN 302 307. PER of 10-7, packet length 188 bytes.

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 Spectral Efficiency Vs. SNR
12

10

8
Spectral Efficiency [Bit/Sec/Hz]

SatExpander SatX - DualBand

6

SatExpander SatX

SatExpander DVB-S2
4

0
-5 0 5 10 15 20 25
SNR [dB]

Figure 5: Performance chart NovelSat DUET

It should be noted that the NovelSat DUET echo cancellation is not limited to the
case where the bandwidths are equal. Asymmetric links are also supported, as
well as unbalanced links in terms of power (namely, for a case that the echo
signal is much stronger, or much weaker than the wanted one).

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4. NovelSat Signal Spectrum
In the DVB-S standard, a square root raised-cosine pulse is used, with a minimal
Roll-Off Factor (ROF) of 35%. In DVB-S2 the minimal ROF is reduced to 20%.
NovelSat technology enables further reduction of the minimal ROF to 5-10% and
even faster symbol rate by the use of Faster than Nyquist (FTN) signaling.
Will this cause any problems to adjacent channels (carriers) on the same
transponder or to neighboring transponders?
Figure 6 shows the spectrum of 72MHz signals (DVB-S2 and NovelSat NS3), as
measured by a spectrum analyzer.

Figure 6 Measured Single carrier spectrum

As can be clearly seen, the out-of band spectra of the two measured signals are
identical.

4.1 Spectrum - Single carrier per transponder, saturated

channel
The effect of amplifier saturation is demonstrated below for the single carrier
per-transponder scenario. In this case it is typical to work at a very low Back-Off
Factor (BOF) in order to squeeze the maximum TWTA output power. This
results in spectral re-growth at the TWTA output. However, this spectral re-
growth is filtered out by the Output MUltipleXer filter (OMUX) which is located
after the TWTA. The OMUX is common in all transponders of various satellite
operators.
The following figure shows a simulated signal spectrum in three scenarios:
1. ROF 20%. The symbol rate is 30[MSym/s] (= 36MHz/1.2).
2. ROF 5%. The symbol rate is 34.3[MSym/s] (= 36MHz/1.05).

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 3. ROF 5% and Faster than Nyquist signaling with FTN factor 10/11. The
effective ROF in this case is -5%. The symbol rate is 37.7[MSym/s] (=
36MHz/1.05 * 11/10).
It also includes the TWTA and OMUX effects, as characterized by the DVB-S2
standard. The input back-off (IBOF) was set to 0 [dB] (the highest saturation
possible):

Welch Power Spectral Density Estimate

-70
ROF 20%, no FTN
ROF 5%, no FTN
ROF 5%, FTNF = 10/11
Channel Boundary

-80

-90
Power/frequency (dB/Hz)

-100

-110

-120

-130

-140
3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11
Frequency [MHz] x 10
7

Figure 7 Single carrier spectrum, with saturation

Observations:
Reducing the roll-off factor and FTN signaling results in no extra-bandwidth
penalty.
Symbol rate can be improved without causing adjacent transponders
interference.

The NovelSat white paper [2] shows simulation results for more cases, including
multi carrier and mixed carrier scenarios.

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5. Resilience to Impairments
The strength of the NovelSat system is not only with its capacity but also in its
robust design, which makes it resilient to various impairments such as
saturation, phase noise and interference.

5.1 Performance in Saturation

While the results presented in section 4 above are indicative of potential gains in
a non-saturated environment, the real proof of the validity must be performed
in a saturated environment. Using detailed modeling available in the DVB-S2
standards committee, the NovelSat system was simulated to include the non-
linear effects of the satellite chain. Figure 8 shows the ensemble performance of
the NovelSat system in saturated and non-saturated conditions (upper red curve
representing the non-saturated case and lower red curve representing the
saturated case).
Normalized Capcity vs Es/N0
6
DVBS2 20% w/o saturation
5.5 DVBS2 20% with saturation
NovelSatCode 5% w/o saturation
5
NovelSatCode 5% with saturation
4.5 Shannon
w/o saturation
4
Ru [bits/Sec/Hz]

3.5

2.5
with saturation
2

1.5

0.5
0 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16 18 20
CNR [dB]

Figure 8 - Performance of NovelSat System compared to DVB-S2 system in Saturated and

Non-saturated conditions

As expected, the loss is greater at higher constellations. From these results, it is

clear that the gains (of the NovelSat system over the DVB-S2 system) observed
in the non-saturated case carry over to the saturated channel conditions as well.

5.2 Performance with strong phase noise

Some of the processing techniques and solutions incorporated in NovelSat NS3
technology allow NovelSat NS3 to better deal with phase noise problems. As a
result, NovelSat NS3 is not only on a par with any existing DVB-S2 receiver
robustness to phase noise, but it is much better.

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 In order to demonstrate that we have conducted a lab test with a jittered carrier
according to the typical phase noise mask given by the DVB-S2 specification:

Offset Max. Level (dBc/Hz)

100 Hz -25
1 kHz -50
10 kHz -73
100 kHz -93
1 MHz -103
>10 MHz -114

Table 1: Typical phase noise mask

We have tested the performance using the demodulator and a 10Msps carrier.
Figure 9 shows the resulting performance with specific ModCods (the discrete
points) vs. the nominal performance in pure a AWGN channel (solid lines), for
two modem a standard DVB-S2 receiver and an NS3 one.

Figure 9: Performance with very strong phase noise

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 As can be seen in DVB-S2, the additional loss due to phase noise is quite large
and reaches 4 dB in higher modulations. In NovelSat NSE, on the other hand, the
phase noise loss is much smaller. While all the tests shown in
Figure 9 were performed using the NovelSat NS2000 satellite demodulator, it is
important to state that in DVB-S2 mode the performance of the NS2000 was
superior to any other receiver tested.

5.3 Resilience to Jamming

Jamming and interference is a major issue in any radio communication system,
and satellite communications is no different. In this section, a test of the
NovelSat NS3 resilience to jamming, in comparison to a standard DVB-S2
receiver is presented.

6.3.3. Test Setup

Two tests were performed: one with DVB-S2 and one with NovelSat NS3.
On the TX side, two modulators were used, one for the DVB-S2 signal and the
other to create the jamming signal. A Noise Generator controlled the SNR
conditions. The combined signal was divided equally to three, driving the
following: NS2000 Demodulator, Tandberg RX8200 IRD and spectrum analyzer.
In addition, a second test conducted using NovelSat NS3 as the signal modulator,
in this case only the NS2000 performance was tested since Tandberg RX8200
cannot handle NovelSat NS3.
The setup of the two test is described in Figure 10.

Figure 10: Resilience to Jamming Test

7.3.3. Test flow

a. Adjust the Modulator and White noise power levels to achieve the initial SNR
condition.
b. Enable the Jamming signal and find the first point of failure, where the Quasi
Error Free conditions do not apply, by increasing the jamming power.

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 5.3.3. Results
The results of this test are presented in Figure 11. It is a graph of the
Interference (Jamming) signal power while the demodulator is still in LOCK
mode as a function of the initial SNR.
The Y axis is interference to signal ratio value in dB.
The X axis (Original SNR) starts from the minimal SNR for the mod-code to SNR
of 20dB.

Maximal Interference/Signal Ratio

10

Typical Work Area

5
Interference/Signal Ratio[dB]

14dB -5

-10

NS2000 DVB-S2 (8PSK 3/4)

Tandberg RX8200 (8PSK 3/4)
-15 NS2000 NS3 (8PSK 3/4)
NS2000 NS3 (16APSK 17/30)

-20
8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20
Original SNR[dB]

Figure 11: Resilience to Jamming Test Results

To understand this graph, lets take for example the Original SNR point of 10dB,
the Maximum interference/Signal Values of the different systems at this point
are grouped in the following table:

Demodulator/Mode-Code Interference/Signal Ratio

NS2000 NS3 (16APSK 17/30) +6.2dB
NS2000 NS3 (8PSK 3/4) +3dB
NS2000 DVB-S2 (8PSK 3/4) -4.5dB
Tandberg RX8200 (8PSK 3/4) -11dB

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 The NS2000 using DVB-S2 (the Blue curve) can work properly with interference
6.5dB larger than the interference of the Tandberg RX8200 (the red curve).
Whats more, when NS2000 is working in NS3 mode (the cyan curve) the
maximum interference difference from the Tandberg RX8200 (the Green curve)
increases to 14dB
And even more, when using NovelSat NS3, maximum capacity and increasing the
mod-code to 16APSK 17/30 (the green curve) the difference increases to 17.2dB
Additional results can be found in [3].

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6. Performance Tables
The system performance, in terms of the minimal CNR and SNR required for
each Modcod, and the spectral efficiency achieved for each, is given in the
following table. If NovelSat DUET echo cancellation is applied, the degradation
term should be added to the link budget. The spectral efficiency calculated in
this table is the net spectral efficiency, taking into account headers and pilots.

CNR SNR NovelSat DVB-S2 20% NovelSat NS3 5%

[dB] [dB] DUET [Bits/Sec/Hz] [Bits/Sec/Hz]
Degradation
[dB] Modcod Sp. Eff. Modcod Sp. Eff.

-3.09 -2.30 0.01 QPSK 1/4 0.4

-2.60 -2.39 0.01 QPSK 1/4 0.46
-1.95 -1.16 0.01 QPSK 1/3 0.53
-1.34 -1.13 0.01 QPSK 1/3 0.61
-0.92 -0.13 0.01 QPSK 2/5 0.64
-0.31 -0.10 0.01 QPSK 2/5 0.73
0.05 0.26 0.01 QPSK 13/30 0.8
0.41 1.20 0.01 QPSK 1/2 0.8
0.49 0.70 0.01 QPSK 7/15 0.86
0.92 1.13 0.01 QPSK 1/2 0.92
1.32 1.53 0.01 QPSK 8/15 0.98
1.63 2.42 0.01 QPSK 3/5 0.97
1.76 1.97 0.01 QPSK 17/30 1.04
2.05 2.26 0.01 QPSK 3/5 1.1
2.37 2.58 0.01 8PSK 2/5 1.1
2.49 2.70 0.01 QPSK 19/30 1.17
2.49 3.28 0.01 QPSK 2/3 1.07
2.81 3.02 0.01 QPSK 2/3 1.23
2.81 3.02 0.01 8PSK 13/30 1.19
3.25 3.46 0.01 8PSK 7/15 1.29
3.38 3.59 0.01 QPSK 32/45 1.31
3.48 4.27 0.01 QPSK 3/4 1.21
3.79 4.00 0.01 8PSK 1/2 1.38
3.93 4.14 0.01 QPSK 3/4 1.38
4.01 4.80 0.01 QPSK 4/5 1.29
4.37 4.58 0.01 8PSK 8/15 1.47
4.47 5.26 0.02 QPSK 5/6 1.35

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 CNR SNR NovelSat DVB-S2 20% NovelSat NS3 5%
[dB] [dB] DUET [Bits/Sec/Hz] [Bits/Sec/Hz]
Degradation
[dB] Modcod Sp. Eff. Modcod Sp. Eff.

4.52 4.73 0.02 QPSK 4/5 1.48

4.68 2.58 0.02 16APSK 2/5 1.46
4.80 5.01 0.02 8PSK 17/30 1.56
5.00 5.21 0.02 16APSK 13/30 1.59
5.02 5.23 0.02 QPSK 5/6 1.54
5.06 5.85 0.02 8PSK 3/5 1.45
5.29 5.50 0.02 8PSK 3/5 1.66
5.45 5.66 0.02 16APSK 7/15 1.71
5.60 6.39 0.02 QPSK 8/9 1.44
5.79 6.58 0.02 QPSK 9/10 1.46
5.90 6.11 0.02 8PSK 19/30 1.75
5.94 6.15 0.02 QPSK 8/9 1.64
5.95 7.25 0.02 16APSK 1/2 1.83
6.04 6.25 0.02 8PSK 2/3 1.61
6.11 6.90 0.02 QPSK 9/10 1.66
6.16 6.37 0.02 32APSK 2/5 1.83
6.26 6.47 0.02 8PSK 2/3 1.84
6.39 6.60 0.02 16APSK 8/15 1.96
6.54 6.75 0.02 32APSK 13/30 1.99
6.94 7.15 0.03 16APSK 17/30 2.08
6.98 7.19 0.03 8PSK 32/45 1.97
7.15 7.36 0.03 32APSK 7/15 2.14
7.26 7.47 0.03 8PSK 3/4 1.81
7.54 7.75 0.03 16APSK 3/5 2.2
7.70 5.59 0.03 8PSK 3/4 2.07
8.03 8.24 0.03 16APSK 19/30 2.33
8.03 8.24 0.03 32APSK 1/2 2.29
8.31 8.52 0.04 16APSK 2/3 2.14
8.47 8.68 0.04 32APSK 8/15 2.45
8.50 8.71 0.04 16APSK 2/3 2.45
8.64 8.85 0.04 8PSK 4/5 2.21
8.65 8.86 0.04 8PSK 5/6 2.02
9.14 9.35 0.04 32APSK 17/30 2.6
9.28 9.49 0.05 8PSK 5/6 2.31

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 CNR SNR NovelSat DVB-S2 20% NovelSat NS3 5%
[dB] [dB] DUET [Bits/Sec/Hz] [Bits/Sec/Hz]
Degradation
[dB] Modcod Sp. Eff. Modcod Sp. Eff.

9.35 9.56 0.05 16APSK 32/45 2.61

9.69 10.48 0.05 16APSK 3/4 2.41
9.78 9.99 0.05 32APSK 3/5 2.76
9.95 10.16 0.05 16APSK 3/4 2.76
10.14 10.93 0.06 8PSK 8/9 2.15
10.36 10.57 0.06 32APSK 19/30 2.91
10.51 11.3 0.06 8PSK 9/10 2.18
10.55 10.76 0.06 8PSK 8/9 2.46
10.55 11.34 0.06 16APSK 4/5 2.58
10.7 10.91 0.06 16APSK 4/5 2.94
10.74 10.95 0.06 8PSK 9/10 2.49
10.92 11.13 0.07 32APSK 2/3 3.07
11.11 11.90 0.07 16APSK 5/6 2.68
11.36 11.57 0.07 16APSK 5/6 3.07
11.63 11.84 0.08 32APSK 32/45 3.27
12.33 12.54 0.09 32APSK 3/4 3.02
12.42 13.21 0.09 16APSK 8/9 2.87
12.43 12.64 0.09 32APSK 3/4 3.45
12.59 12.8 0.10 16APSK 8/9 3.28
12.69 12.9 0.10 64APSK 19/30 3.48
12.84 13.05 0.10 16APSK 9/10 3.32
0.10 16APSK
12.88 13.67 2.90
9/10
13.29 14.08 0.12 32APSK 4/5 3.22
13.31 13.52 0.12 32APSK 4/5 3.68
13.31 13.52 0.12 64APSK 2/3 3.67
13.88 14.67 0.13 32APSK 5/6 3.36
13.99 14.20 0.13 32APSK 5/6 3.84
14.03 14.24 0.14 64APSK 32/45 3.92
14.95 15.16 0.17 64APSK 3/4 4.13
15.21 15.42 0.18 32APSK 8/9 4.1
15.23 16.02 0.18 32APSK 8/9 3.59
15.53 15.74 0.19 32APSK 9/10 4.15

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 CNR SNR NovelSat DVB-S2 20% NovelSat NS3 5%
[dB] [dB] DUET [Bits/Sec/Hz] [Bits/Sec/Hz]
Degradation
[dB] Modcod Sp. Eff. Modcod Sp. Eff.

0.19 32APSK
15.54 16.33 3.63
9/10
16.03 16.24 0.21 64APSK 4/5 4.41
16.83 17.04 0.26 64APSK 5/6 4.6
18.40 18.61 0.36 64APSK 8/9 4.91
18.67 18.89 0.38 64APSK 9/10 4.97

7. Conclusions
The NovelSat radio is a significant improvement over the state of the art DVB-S2
radios. They have been shown to be at least 20% more spectrally efficient than
a comparable DVB-S2 radio with potential for additional gains as additional tools
are added to the system. We believe that such a radio system would be very
valuable for any SATCOM applications since it would better leverage the most
precious commodity spectrum in a very cost effective manner.
In addition to that the NovelSat system excels in its performance in terms of
Spectrum mask, and resilience to various impairments, including amplifier
saturation, phase noise and jamming. The attached performance table
demonstrates the high granularity of the scheme which provides better
utilization of the available resources.

8. References
[1] NovelSat White Paper: NovelSat Geneve tests 72 W3A B04 15 June 2011
[2] NovelSat White Paper: NovelSat Methods and Innovation, NovelSat White
Paper 07 Dec 2009 V8 0.1
[3] NovelSat White Paper: Jamming Mitigation Report:
NS2000_Jamming_Mitigation_v6.0.1

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1 About NovelSat
NovelSat is a technology company dedicated to providing the next-generation
modulation standard for satellite communications. NovelSat NS3 technology
encompassing ultra-high end modulators, demodulators, modems and ASICs
essentially replaces DVB-S2 as the industry standard. NovelSat delivers the
fastest data rates, the widest pipe and the most compelling ROI. That means you
get the best performance at the lowest costs, resulting in the highest profits.

8.1 Contact Information

Support Hot Line
Boston, MA: +1. 617.658.1419
London, UK: +44.203.455.5900
Milan, Italy: +39.023.631.1980
Zurich, Switzerland: +41.435.081.067
Or via our support email at: support@novelsat.com
You can also contact us at: info@novelsat.com
NovelSat US
25 Tanglewood Rd.
Newton, MA 02459
NovelSat UK
141 Gloucester Road
London SW7 4TH

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