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low power satellite A satellite with less than 30 watts of transponder radio<br />

frequency transmitting power.<br />

master frame A frame occurring once in every eight frames that identifies<br />

the current waveform format and other configuration<br />

parameters.<br />

master frame<br />

epoch<br />

medium power<br />

satellite<br />

Glossary-18<br />

A set of eight contiguous frames, beginning with a master<br />

frame.<br />

A satellite with greater than 30 watts but less than 100<br />

watts of transponder radio frequency transmitting power.<br />

message <strong>service</strong> A <strong>service</strong> that provides resources for transmitting messages,<br />

using a packet-oriented protocol.<br />

modem A tele<strong>com</strong>munications device that converts between analog<br />

and digital signals, allowing <strong>com</strong>munication over voice<br />

circuits.<br />

modernization The replacement of equipment, weapons systems, and<br />

facilities in order to maintain or improve <strong>com</strong>bat capability,<br />

upgrade facilities, or reduce operating costs.<br />

modulation rate The rate at which information is transferred across a<br />

satellite channel, in units of symbols per second.<br />

modulo A mathematical function that yields the remainder of a<br />

division.<br />

<strong>multi</strong>cast Multicast is a subset of broadcast that extends the broadcast<br />

concept of one to many by allowing “the sending of one<br />

transmission to many users in a defined group, but not<br />

necessarily to all users in that group.”<br />

<strong>multi</strong>-h A scheme that employs <strong>multi</strong>ple modulation indices, or h<br />

values, that are cyclically changed for successive symbol<br />

intervals.<br />

<strong>multi</strong>ple-channel The network capability of automatically switching from<br />

channel to channel within a single satellite footprint for<br />

transmit and receive <strong>service</strong>s when <strong>com</strong>manded by the PCC.<br />

<strong>multi</strong>ple-hop Operations that relay information between two or more<br />

satellite channels.<br />

<strong>multi</strong>plexing Techniques that allow a number of simultaneous<br />

transmissions over a single circuit.<br />

narrowband<br />

operation<br />

A <strong>com</strong>munications mode whose essential spectral content is<br />

limited to a channel of nominal 5-kHz bandwidth.<br />

net guard address Address above the demarcation number that allows <strong>multi</strong>ple<br />

terminals to <strong>com</strong>municate. Also called network address,<br />

guard address, subnet address, or guard list address.<br />

node A terminal or channel controller in a network.<br />

noise power The noise power per hertz (Hz) of bandwidth (No = kT)<br />

spectral density<br />

noncoherent A demodulation process in which there is no synchronized

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