Implementation of a hardware TCM modem for mobile/satellite telecommunications in the 20 to 30 GHz frequency band

Author

Landry, Nathaly ; Chouinard, Jean-Yves

Author_Institution

Direction Maintenance et Ingenierie des Systems d´´Inf., Quartiers Generaux de la Defense Nationale, Ottawa, Ont., Canada

Volume

1

fYear

1995

Firstpage

13

Abstract

This article deals with the implementation in hardware and the study of performance of a modem using trellis-coded PSK modulation with a signalling rate of 9.6 kbit.s in the Ka-band. The modems thus designed are used to simulate the transmission of data through a hardware channel simulator with attenuation in the band-pass mode. This can simulate either a Rayleigh channel, a Rician channel or a Loo (1985) channel with lognormal masking and Rayleigh fading. The results are presented in terms of error rate as a function of signal/noise ratio

Keywords

Rayleigh channels; Rician channels; data communication; digital radio; electromagnetic wave absorption; fading; land mobile radio; microwave propagation; mobile satellite communication; modems; phase shift keying; simulation; trellis coded modulation; 20 to 30 GHz; 9.6 kbit/s; Ka-band; Loo channel; Rayleigh channel; Rayleigh fading; Rician channel; SHF; SNR; TCM modem; attenuation; band-pass mode; data transmission; error rate; frequency band; hardware channel simulator; lognormal masking; mobile satellite telecommunications; signal to noise ratio; signalling rate; trellis-coded PSK modulation; Artificial satellites; Finance; Gaussian processes; Irrigation; Mobile communication; Phase modulation; Satellite broadcasting; Signal processing; Telephony;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Electrical and Computer Engineering, 1995. Canadian Conference on

Conference_Location

Montreal, Que.

ISSN

0840-7789

Print_ISBN

0-7803-2766-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CCECE.1995.528063

Filename

528063