Practical wideband channel sounding system for air-to-ground measurements at C Band

Author

Yu Song Meng ; Yee Hui Lee

Author_Institution

Sch. of Electr. & Electron. Eng., Nanyang Technol. Univ., Singapore, Singapore

fYear

2009

fDate

5-7 May 2009

Firstpage

771

Lastpage

775

Abstract

This paper reports a practical design and construction of a wideband channel sounding system for air-to-ground measurements at C band. A high precision Global Positioning System (GPS) time-stamped system is developed using the virtual instrument (VI) concept. With the implementations of the spread spectrum technique and through matched filter detection, the performance of the designed sounding system is analyzed. Extensive laboratory test is performed and there is good agreement between experimental and theoretical results.

Keywords

Global Positioning System; aircraft communication; matched filters; microwave landing systems; spread spectrum communication; virtual instrumentation; wireless channels; C band; GPS time-stamped system; air-to-ground measurement; global positioning system; matched filter detection; microwave landing system; spread spectrum technique; virtual instrument concept; wideband channel sounding system; Electric variables measurement; Frequency; Global Positioning System; Instruments; Multilevel systems; Paper technology; Performance evaluation; Radio transmitters; Spread spectrum communication; Wideband; channel measurement; spread spectrum; virtual instrument; wideband;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference, 2009. I2MTC '09. IEEE

Conference_Location

Singapore

ISSN

1091-5281

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-3352-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IMTC.2009.5168554

Filename

5168554