A Critical Review of Baseband Architectures for CubeSats’ Communication Systems

Abstract

<p><u>This survey</u> <sup>1 </sup>fills in an important gap in the literature on CubeSat communication systems’ designs and architectures. The paper <sup>2 </sup>comprehensively reviews the design details in-depth and <sup>3 </sup>critically evaluates the performance and reliability of the reviewed systems by analyzing the demonstration and testing results and illustrating implicit assumptions in the reviewed works. Furthermore, the paper <sup>4 </sup>proposes an original CubeSat communication system categorization based on the design approach and <sup>5 </sup>analyzes the features and limitations of each category. Consequently, this leads to <b>identifying the limitations</b> of current CubeSat communication systems and the <b>promising future developments</b> that can boost CubeSat communications capabilities. </p>