A Packet Error Rate of AIS Messages Measurement System

This article discussed a packet error rate of Automatic Identification System messages measurement system. Packet Error Rate is the only verdict conditions of the receive-performance of shipboard AIS, but so far there is no relative equipment. In this paper a measurement scheme is proposed, and there is an arbitrary waveform generator used for generating standard measurement signals and a personal computer used to receive VDM messages via serial port and calculate the packet error rate. Experiments show that this scheme can meet the functional requirement and has some practice value.