Impact of baseband filtering on the SGLS waveform

Author

Nguyen, Tien M. ; Wang, Charles C. ; Parker, Andrew S. ; Yoh, James ; Charroux, John M.

Author_Institution

Aerosp. Corp., Los Angeles, CA, USA

Volume

5

fYear

1999

fDate

1999

Firstpage

23

Abstract

This paper investigates the effects of the baseband filtering on the data performance of the Space-Ground Link Subsystem (SGLS) uplink. The uplink SGLS waveform investigated in this paper includes data, command, and ranging signals. The performance of the data channel will be evaluated analytically for ideal conditions, namely, perfect carrier/sub-carrier tracking, frequency synchronization, timing recovery, and filtering. For imperfect conditions, a computer simulation model has been developed to examine the impacts of baseband filtering on the power spectral density (PSD) of the uplink signal and bit error rate (BER) performance of the data channel. It was found that (1) the baseband filter improves the out-of-band attenuation by about 35 dB, and (2) the additional bit signal-to-noise (SNR) degradation due to baseband filtering is about 0.5 dB. In addition, to optimize BER performance when inserting the baseband filter, it is necessary to adjust the effective modulation indices

Keywords

data communication; digital simulation; filtering theory; satellite links; signal detection; synchronisation; telecommunication computing; 0.5 dB; 35 dB; BER performance; SGLS waveform; Space-Ground Link Subsystem uplink; baseband filter; baseband filtering; bit error rate performance; carrier/sub-carrier tracking; computer simulation model; data channel; data performance; effective modulation indices; filtering; frequency synchronization; out-of-band attenuation; power spectral density; signal-to-noise degradation; timing recovery; uplink signal; Attenuation; Baseband; Bit error rate; Computer simulation; Degradation; Filtering; Frequency synchronization; Performance analysis; Power filters; Timing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Aerospace Conference, 1999. Proceedings. 1999 IEEE

Conference_Location

Snowmass at Aspen, CO

Print_ISBN

0-7803-5425-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/AERO.1999.790186

Filename

790186