Design of a space channel simulator using virtual instrumentation software

Author

Horan, Stephen

Author_Institution

New Mexico State Univ., Las Cruces, NM, USA

Volume

1

fYear

2001

fDate

21-23 May 2001

Firstpage

90

Abstract

The ability to simulate satellite channels gives protocol designers the ability to test design options prior to their use in space communications. Here we describe a software-based space channel simulator with variable channel error-rate, channel delay, and user bit error rate. This simulator is used to model the communications channel for testing various Internet-type protocol options for space communications

Keywords

automatic test software; satellite links; space communication links; telecommunication channels; telecommunication computing; transport protocols; virtual instrumentation; Internet-type protocol options; TCP/IP; protocol design; satellite channels; software-based simulator; space channel simulator design; space communications; user interface; variable channel delay; variable channel error-rate; variable user bit error rate; virtual instrumentation software; Baseband; Bit error rate; Communication standards; Delay; Instruments; Protocols; Satellites; Standards development; Testing; Uniform resource locators;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference, 2001. IMTC 2001. Proceedings of the 18th IEEE

Conference_Location

Budapest

ISSN

1091-5281

Print_ISBN

0-7803-6646-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IMTC.2001.928793

Filename

928793