Estimating Signal Suppression under Hard-Limiting

This paper presents methods for determining small signal suppression as signals pass through a hard-limiter. Methods presented will be useful to the systems engineer who wishes to obtain a network power balance for satellite communications networks supported by a hard limited satellite transponder. This class of problem requires the calculation of suppression on satellite links numbered in the hundreds. Therefore speed of calculation becomes important. The key feature of the methods presented is their adaptability to a small desk-top computer and their reduction of processing time.