Performance evaluation of multi-aperture multiple beam antennas

Author

Marshall, James W. ; Le, Anh Q.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Signal Process. & Adv. Technol., Mitre Corp., Reston, VA, USA

fYear

1994

fDate

2-5 Oct 1994

Firstpage

22

Abstract

Several receive antenna designs have been proposed for future military communication satellites to satisfy demands for increased nulling resolution and wide area coverage in support of tactical operations. The paper examines performance of a 61-beam hybrid multi-aperture multiple beam antenna (MA-MBA), an 89-beam outrigger MA-MBA, and an existing single aperture 61-beam MBA. Percent area coverage and network anti-jamming (A/J) margin are the evaluation metrics used in the paper to compare their performance using a representative SHF Defense Satellite Communication System (DSCS) tactical scenario

Keywords

antenna testing; horn antennas; interference suppression; jamming; land mobile radio; microwave antenna arrays; military communication; mobile antennas; mobile satellite communication; multibeam antennas; radiofrequency interference; receiving antennas; satellite antennas; 61-beam hybrid multi-aperture multiple beam antenna; 89-beam outrigger MA-MBA; SHF Defense Satellite Communication System; evaluation metrics; ing resolution; military communication satellites; multi-aperture multiple beam antennas; network anti-jamming; performance evaluation; receive antenna designs; single aperture 61-beam MBA; tactical operations; wide area coverage; Aperture antennas; Artificial satellites; Directional antennas; Earth; Feeds; Jamming; Mobile communication; Satellite communication; Satellite ground stations; Signal processing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Military Communications Conference, 1994. MILCOM '94. Conference Record, 1994 IEEE

Conference_Location

Fort Monmouth, NJ

Print_ISBN

0-7803-1828-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MILCOM.1994.473844

Filename

473844