NTL Record

Title Impact of satellite aeronautical channel on modem specifications
Record ID 39134
Personal Name
Creator
Bello, Phillip A.; Boardman, Charles J.; DeRosa, Joseph K.
Source 299p. in various pagings
Corporate Creator John A. Volpe National Transportation Systems Center (U.S.)
Publisher United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Aviation Administration
Publication Date 19740301
Language English
Abstract The report analyzes the effects of surface-scattered multipath on the performance of ranging and data modems such as might be used on the aircraft-satellite channel of an air-traffic control system. An exact analysis is carried out on the effects of noise and multipath on the one-way ranging errors of a single-sideband tone ranging modem. These results are shown to be applicable at high SNR and direct path/multipath ratios to a double-sideband tone ranging modem whose sideband separation equals the tone separation in the single sideband system. The conventional practice of calculating ambiguity error probabilities with an assumption of Gaussian ranging error distribution is shown to be inapplicable for many situations of practical interest.
Rosap ID dot:9223
Rosap URL https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/9223
TRT Terms Artificial satellites; Modems; Multipath transmission; Transmission errors and interference; Messages; Noise; Air traffic control; Error analysis
Geographical
Coverage
United States
Report Number DOT-TSC-FAA-74-1; FAA-RD-74-54
Availability Volpe National Transportation Systems Center, Technical Reference Center
Resource type Tech Report
URL https://ntlrepository.blob.core.windows.net/lib/39000/39100/39134/DOT-TSC-FAA-74-1.pdf
Database NTL Digital Repository