A comparison of full-spectrum and complex-symbol combining techniques for the Galileo S-band mission

Details A comparison of full-spectrum and complex-symbol combining techniques for the Galileo S-band mission A comparison of full-spectrum and complex-symbol combining techniques for the Galileo S-band mission

Feb 1994

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1994tdar.nasa..128m&link_type=abstract

In its The Telecommunications and Data Acquisition Report p 128-162 (SEE N94-29652 08-32)

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Antenna Arrays, Galileo Spacecraft, Signal Processing, Signal Reception, Signal To Noise Ratios, Spacecraft Antennas, Galileo Project, Spacecraft Communication, Ultrahigh Frequencies

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Full-spectrum combining (FSC) and complex-symbol combining (CSC) are two antenna-arraying techniques being considered for the Galileo spacecraft's upcoming encounter with Jupiter. This article describes the performance of these techniques in terms of symbol signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) degradation and symbol SNR loss. It is shown that both degradation and loss are approximately equal at low values of symbol SNR but diverge at high SNR values. For the Galileo S-band (2.2 to 2.3 GHz) mission, degradation provides a good estimate of performance as the symbol SNR is typically below -5 dB. For the following arrays - two 70-m antennas, one 70-m and one 34-m antenna, one 70-m and two 34-m antennas, and one 70-m and three 34-m antennas - it is shown that FSC has less degradation than CSC when the subcarrier and symbol window-loop bandwidth products are above 3.0, 10.0, 8.5, and 8.2 mHz at the symbol rate of 200 sym/sec, and above 1.2, 4.5, 4.0, and 3.5 mHz at a symbol rate of 400 sym/sec, respectively. Moreover, for an array of four 34-m antennas, FSC has less degradation than CSC when the subcarrier and symbol window-loop bandwidth products are above 0.32 mHz at the symbol rate of 50 sym/sec and above 0.8 mHz at the symbol rate of 25 sym/sec.

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