Performance evaluation of chirp spread spectrum system and Land Mobile Satellite System by computer simulation

The work presented in this dissertation examines the performance of two satellite radio communication systems by computer simulation. Two simulations were separately performed for a spread spectrum chirp system as an analog communications system, and for the Land Mobile Satellite System (LMSS) channel as a digital communications system. For the simulation of analog communications, a spread spectrum system using chirp techniques called ‘Coded Multiple Chirp Spread Spectrum’ was proposed as a simple, cost-effective alternative for conventional spread spectrum systems. Its application as a spread spectrum overlay service on analog FM-TV was examined through the mutual interference analysis and spectral analysis using software programming. For the simulation of digital communications, various digital modulation schemes as well as channel encoding, block interleaving/deinterleaving, and differential encoding techniques were used for a thorough performance evaluation of a Land Mobile Satellite System under fading conditions. For this purpose, an LMSS fading channel simulator capable of simulating diverse fading characteristics for a satellite channel was designed and tested to yield various performance measures such as symbol error rate and average bit error rate.

Name thesis:degree_name

Ph. D.

Level thesis:degree_level

doctoral

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Electrical Engineering

Department dc:contributor.department

Electrical Engineering

Grantor dc:publisher

Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Year dc:date.issued

1988

Author dc:creator

• Kim, Junghwan

Chair dc:contributor.committeechair

• Pratt, Timothy

Committee members dc:contributor.committeemember

• Bostian, Charles
• Yu, Kai-Bor
• Mann, Jerry E.
• Claus, Richard O.

Statement dc:rights

• In Copyright

Licence dc:rights.uri

• http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/

Language dc:language.iso

en_US

Handle dc:identifier.uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10919/53550

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:vtechworks.lib.vt.edu:10919/53550