Douglas Hoder
Institution: NASA John. H. Glenn Research Center at Lewis Field
Role: Research Engineer
E-mail: N/A

Douglas Hoder is a communications engineer in the Antenna, Microwave, and Optical Systems Branch at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland, Ohio.

At NASA Glenn since 1990, he has worked primarily in satellite communications, including being the System Engineer for the Advanced Communications Satellite High Data Rate Program. He is currently engaged in a variety of programs concerned with RF propagation, timing and synchronization, lunar communications, and antenna development.

Mr. Hoder is the co-inventor of four U.S. patents, and has received awards from the White House, the Japan Ministry of Posts and Telecommunication, and Government Computer News. He is a member of the US Space Foundation Space Technology Hall of Fame.

Mr. Hoder earned his bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from Cleveland State University, his master’s degree in Electrical Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology, and a master’s degree in Mathematics from Cleveland State University.

Brooks, D., Hoder, D., Wilkins, R., Mobile Router Testing with Diverse RF Communications Links, 4th Integrated Communications, Navigation andSurveillance Conference and Workshop, Fairfax, Virginia, April 26 – 30, 2004

Brooks, D., Frantz, B., Hoder, D., Wilkins, R., Failover Switching Tests Between Two RF Communications Links, NASA/TM-2004-212953, January, 2004

Hoder, D., Zakrajsek, R., Airborne Satcom Terminal Research at NASA Glenn, NASA/TM-2002-212006, December, 2002

Kerczewski, R. J., Hoder, D. J., Zakrajsek, R. J., Satellite Communications for Aeronautics Applications--Technology Development and Demonstration, NASA/TM 2001-210766, March 2001

Rupar, M., Beering, D., Hoder, D., A Ka-Band High Data Rate Shipboard Satellite Terminal, Fifth Ka-Band Utilization Conference 1999, Taormina, Italy, October 18 - 20, 1999

Ivancic, W., Brooks, D., Frantz, B., Hoder, D., Shell, D., Beering, D., NASA's Broadband Satellite Network Research, IEEE Communications Magazine, July 1999

Brooks, D., Buffinton, C., Beering, D. R., Welch, A., Ivancic, W. D., Zernic, M., Hoder, D. J., ACTS 118x Final Report High Speed TCP Interoperability Testing, NASA/TM-1999-209272, July, 1999

Beering, D., Brooks, D., Hoder, D., Welch, A., Zernic, M., Experimental Results of Running TCP/IP on ATM over ACTS HDR, Proceedings of the 8th Maryland Workshop of Very High Speed Networks, Baltimore, MD, November, 1997

Hoder, D., Bergamo, M. A., Gigabit Satellite Network for NASA's Advanced Communication Technology Satellite (ACTS), International Journal of Satellite Communications, volume 14, no. 3, May-June, 1996

Hoder, D., Kearney, B., Design And Performance Of The ACTS Gigabit Satellite Network High Data-Rate Ground Station, 16th AIAA International Communications Satellite Systems Conference, Washington DC, February 25-29, 1996

Hoder, D., Zernic, M., Satellite Delivery of Wideband Services by ACTS, 18th Annual Pacific Telecommunications Conference, Honolulu, HI, January 14-18, 1996

Hoder, D., Kearney, B., High Data-Rate Ground Station for the ACTS Gigabit Satellite Network (GSN), NASA ACTS Results Conference, Cleveland, OH, September 11-13, 1995

Bergamo, M. A, Hoder, D. J., Gigabit Satellite Network Using NASA's Advanced Communications Technology Satellite (ACTS): Features, Capabilities, and Operations, 17th Annual Pacific Telecommunications Conference, Honolulu, HI, January 22-26, 1995