Field trials of a spread spectrum mobile satellite system using ETS-V satellite

Author

Ikegami, Tetsushi ; Taira, Shinichi ; Arakaki, Yoshiya ; Suzuki, Ryutaro

Author_Institution

Minist. of Posts & Telecommun., Ibaraki, Japan

fYear

1991

fDate

2-5 Dec 1991

Firstpage

1366

Abstract

The performance of a direct sequence spread spectrum (DS/SS) communication system in land mobile satellite channels is evaluated with experiments. Field test results in the L-band with the ETS-V satellite are presented, in which the use of a multibit-quantized coherent matched filter receiver improves the initial acquisition and the bit error rate performances. The bit error rate characteristics in urban and suburban environments are found to agree with those of non-SS BPSK (binary phase-shift keyed) on a nonselective Rician fading channel

Keywords

matched filters; mobile radio systems; radio receivers; radiowave propagation; satellite relay systems; spread spectrum communication; BPSK; DS-SS; DS/SS; ETS-V satellite; SSMA; binary phase-shift keyed; bit error rate; coherent matched filter receiver; field test results; field trials; land mobile satellite; mobile satellite system; nonselective Rician fading channel; spread spectrum multiple access; suburban environments; urban environment; Artificial satellites; Automatic frequency control; Binary phase shift keying; Bit error rate; Circuit testing; Correlators; Matched filters; Performance evaluation; Rician channels; Spread spectrum communication;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Global Telecommunications Conference, 1991. GLOBECOM '91. 'Countdown to the New Millennium. Featuring a Mini-Theme on: Personal Communications Services

Conference_Location

Phoenix, AZ

Print_ISBN

0-87942-697-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/GLOCOM.1991.188593

Filename

188593