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Satellites and the Internet '99 Conference

Dr. Ron Smith

TRW Technical Specialist, Digital Communications
Satellite Communications Directorate

TRW

As a TRW Technical Specialist in Digital Communications for the Satellite Communications Directorate, he is responsible for digital processing architectures and implementations for commercial and military satellite communications payloads. He has contributed to TRW's architecture for the Ka-band multimedia satellite networks with particular emphasis on advanced technology and algorithms for demodulation, decoding and on-board packet routing. He is Secretary of the IEEE Satellite and Space Communications (SSC) Technical Committee and a member of the steering subcommittee for the AIAA Technical Committee on Communications Systems (TCCS). He holds Ph.D. and MS degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Southern California and a BS in engineering from Harvey Mudd College.

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