Simulation of phase nonlinearity effects in a satellite channel

Author

Tan, Soon Hie

Author_Institution

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

Volume

1

fYear

1997

fDate

9-12 Sep 1997

Firstpage

1

Abstract

This simple channel simulation program is written using MATLAB to determine the influence of phase nonlinearity distortions on the bit error rate performance of BPSK signals transmitted through a satellite transponder and its ground station receiver. For simplicity, the channel is modelled as a cascade of two filters found in the IF section of the satellite transponder and ground station receiver. Coherent (synchronous) detection of the BPSK signal in the ground station receiver is assumed and the binary data is recovered using a sampling and threshold decision device. This simulation method has been applied to the UoSAT-12´s Merlion bent-pipe transponder designed for 1 Mb/s BPSK data transmissions

Keywords

Butterworth filters; data communication; error statistics; phase shift keying; receivers; satellite communication; signal detection; signal sampling; telecommunication channels; telecommunication computing; transponders; 1 Mbit/s; BPSK signals; IF section; MATLAB; UoSAT-12´s Merlion bent-pipe transponder; binary data; bit error rate performance; cascade; coherent detection; data transmissions; filters; ground station receiver; phase nonlinearity distortions; phase nonlinearity effects; sampling; satellite channel; satellite transponder; simulation; synchronous detection; threshold decision device; Binary phase shift keying; Bit error rate; Data communication; Filters; MATLAB; Mathematical model; Phase distortion; Sampling methods; Satellite ground stations; Transponders;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Information, Communications and Signal Processing, 1997. ICICS., Proceedings of 1997 International Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-3676-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICICS.1997.647045

Filename

647045