ITC/USA 2014 Conference Proceedings / The Fiftieth Annual International Telemetering Conference and Technical Exhibition / October 20-23, 2014 / Town and Country Resort & Convention Center, San Diego, CA / In some flight test scenarios the telemetry link is noise limited at long slant ranges or during signal fade events caused by antenna pattern nulls. In these situations, a mitigation technique such as forward error correction (FEC) can add several decibels to the link margin. The particular FEC code discussed in this paper is a variant of a low-density parity check (LDPC) code and is coupled with SOQPSK modulation in the hardware tested. This paper will briefly cover lab testing of the flight-ready hardware then present flight test results comparing a baseline uncoded telemetry link with a LDPC-coded telemetry link. This is the first known test dedicated to this specific FEC code in a real-world test environment with flight profile tailored to assess the viability of an LDPC-coded telemetry link.
Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:arizona.edu/oai:arizona.openrepository.com:10150/578364 |
Date | 10 1900 |
Creators | Temple, Kip |
Contributors | Edwards Air Force Base |
Publisher | International Foundation for Telemetering |
Source Sets | University of Arizona |
Language | en_US |
Detected Language | English |
Type | text, Proceedings |
Rights | Copyright © held by the author; distribution rights International Foundation for Telemetering |
Relation | http://www.telemetry.org/ |
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