Scintillation Simulator Test Results: Hardware-in-the-Loop Emulation of Ionospheric Scintillation

Author

Sward, William S. ; Swanson, Taylor ; Williams, McKay

Author_Institution

Welkin Sci., LLC, Colorado Springs, CO, USA

fYear

2014

fDate

6-8 Oct. 2014

Firstpage

1361

Lastpage

1367

Abstract

Ionospheric scintillation induces distortion onto RF communication and radar signals that propagate through the ionospheric medium. Unless properly accounted for, this scintillation may greatly impact the performance of military and commercial satellite signals. Accurate verification of satellite systems and associated ground equipment is achievable through the use of hardware-in-the-loop (HWIL) scintillation simulators. Test results of a scintillation simulator are presented and compared with theoretical performance of Rayleigh, Rician, and Nakagami-m fading.

Keywords

distortion; ionospheric electromagnetic wave propagation; military communication; radar signal processing; radiowave propagation; satellite communication; HWIL; Nakagami-m fading channel; RF communication; Rayleigh channel; Rician channel; associated ground equipment; commercial satellite signal system; distortion; hardware-in-the-loop emulation; ionospheric medium; ionospheric scintillation; military signals; radar signals; scintillation simulator test; Bandwidth; Doppler effect; Noise; Rayleigh channels; Rician channels; Testing; MASS; communications; fading; hardware in the loop testing; ionosphere; radar; satellite; scintillation; simulator;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Military Communications Conference (MILCOM), 2014 IEEE

Conference_Location

Baltimore, MD

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MILCOM.2014.226

Filename

6956946