Title :
Applications of precise time and frequency to current and future NATO SATCOM
Author_Institution :
SHAPE Tech. Center, The Hague, Netherlands
Abstract :
Precise time and frequency (PT&F) play an increasingly important role in digital communications systems and networks. Precise time is required for entry into the network, network synchronization, and link acquisition. Precise frequency is required to maintain synchronization, and to ensure that the accumulation of frequency offset and time interval error (TIE), which may result in loss of bit count integrity (BCI), is consistent with end-to-end performance objectives
Keywords :
Doppler shift; digital radio; frequency stability; internetworking; jitter; military communication; satellite communication; spread spectrum communication; synchronisation; technological forecasting; time measurement; NATO SATCOM; bit count integrity; digital communications; frequency offset; future; link acquisition; network synchronization; performance; precise frequency; precise time; time interval error; Added delay; Clocks; Digital communication; Doppler shift; Frequency synchronization; Satellites; Spread spectrum communication; Stability; Timing; Uncertainty;
Conference_Titel :
Military Communications Conference, 1993. MILCOM '93. Conference record. Communications on the Move., IEEE
Conference_Location :
Boston, MA
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-0953-7
DOI :
10.1109/MILCOM.1993.408553
