Advanced meteor-burst radio for multi-media communications

Author

Desourdis, Robert I. ; McDonough, Jr K. ; Merrill, Steven C. ; Bauman, Ronald M. ; Neumann, David A. ; Lucas, Jeffrey A. ; Spector, Donald ; Warren, Daniel E.

Author_Institution

Sci. Applications Int. Corp., Marlborough, MA, USA

fYear

1994

fDate

2-5 Oct 1994

Firstpage

685

Abstract

This paper describes the advanced meteor-burst test bed (AMBTB) operated between Charleston, South Carolina and Verona, New York (750 miles). The AMBTB was established by the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) to demonstrate the capabilities of multi-media communication via meteor scatter to prospective Government and commercial users. A demonstration site has also been established near ARPA headquarters in Arlington, Virginia. Currently, the AMBTB supports average hourly data-bit throughput in excess of 4 kbps. This throughput performance enables demonstration attendees to witness both text and digitized-voice communications via the AMBTB MB link. This paper describes the AMBTB configuration and presents some preliminary link-performance results

Keywords

direction-of-arrival estimation; meteor burst communication; multimedia communication; radio links; DOA measurements; VHF communication; advanced meteor-burst test bed; digitized-voice communications; hourly data-bit throughput; link-performance; meteor scatter; meteor-burst radio; multi-media communications; text communications; Command and control systems; Government; Image sensors; Laboratories; Modems; Multimedia communication; Scattering; Telemetry; Testing; Throughput;

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.1994.473884

Filename

473884