Meteor burst link and network simulator

Author

Kilpatrick, John ; Weitzen, Jay ; Parl, S.

Author_Institution

Signatron Inc., Lexington, MA, USA

fYear

1990

fDate

30 Sep-3 Oct 1990

Firstpage

878

Abstract

A meteor burst link/network simulator that has been developed to facilitate the testing of the next-generation meteor scatter communication equipment and terminals is described. With the capability to interface to 15 terminals configured into an arbitrary network with up to 30 independent links, the simulator will have significant flexibility to test a variety of network architectures. In addition, the 400 kHz simulator bandwidth provides transparency to different modulations at data rates from 75 b/s to 128 kb/s independently of waveform design. The design of the simulator, including the channel modeling, the multiplexing of the hardware to serve all desired links, and the simulator control, is discussed. A number of the potential applications of the simulator in future testing of modems, protocols, terminals. and networks are presented

Keywords

automatic test equipment; digital simulation; meteor burst communications; radio networks; telecommunications computer control; 400 kHz; 75 bit/s to 128 kbit/s; channel modeling; data rates; meteor burst link simulator; meteor scatter communication equipment; meteor scatter terminals; modems; modulations; multiplexing; network architectures; network simulator; protocols; simulator bandwidth; simulator control; testing; waveform design; Communication equipment; Communication system control; Hardware; Modems; Protocols; Radio spectrum management; Real time systems; Scattering; System performance; System testing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Military Communications Conference, 1990. MILCOM '90, Conference Record, A New Era. 1990 IEEE

Conference_Location

Monterey, CA

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MILCOM.1990.117540

Filename

117540