IMPACT OF SATELLITE AERONAUTICAL CHANNEL ON MODEM SPECIFICATIONS

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. (Modified author abstract)

• Supplemental Notes:
  • Prepared by CNR, Inc., Newton Upper Falls, Mass.
• Corporate Authors:

  Transportation Systems Center

  55 Broadway, Kendall Square
  Cambridge, MA  United States  02142
• Authors:
  • Bello, P A
  • Boardman, C J
  • Chase, D
  • DeRosa, J K
• Publication Date: 1974-3

Media Info

• Pagination: 299 p.

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00057400
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: National Technical Information Service
• Report/Paper Numbers: TSC-FAA-74-1 Final Rpt.
• Contract Numbers: DOT-TSC-516-1
• Files: NTIS
• Created Date: Aug 28 1974 12:00AM