On the Characterization of Cochannel Interference in an Aeronautical Mobile Environment

Author

Nguyen, Minh A. ; Zaghloul, Amir I.

Author_Institution

Veracity Eng., LLC, Washington, DC

Volume

56

Issue

2

fYear

2007

fDate

3/1/2007 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

837

Lastpage

848

Abstract

In this paper, complex cochannel interference of an aeronautical communication system operating in a heavy-traffic environment of 3000 aircraft is modeled and analyzed using a visualization method. This method transforms the cochannel interference, which is specified in terms of message overlaps, from a visual representation to a matrix representation of message overlaps for further statistical analysis. We show that the statistical Poisson distribution provides the best estimates for the message-overlap statistics results. In addition, its cumulative distribution is found to provide useful information regarding the multimessage-decoding capability of a special type of receiver. The results demonstrate that message-overlap statistics could aid in determining the best approach for mitigating cochannel interference

Keywords

Poisson distribution; aircraft communication; cochannel interference; decoding; electronic messaging; matrix algebra; aeronautical mobile environment; aircraft; cochannel interference; matrix representation; message overlaps; multimessage decoding; statistical Poisson distribution; statistical analysis; visualization method; Communication system traffic; Computer simulation; Costs; Frequency; Interchannel interference; Military aircraft; Noise reduction; Statistical analysis; Statistical distributions; Visualization; Aeronautical; Poisson; aloha; aviation; cochannel interference; high-density traffic; message overlap; national airspace system (NAS); slotted aloha;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Vehicular Technology, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9545

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/TVT.2007.891440

Filename

4138039