Diversity combining antenna array for land mobile satellite communications
A unified approach to adaptive antenna array design and transceiver signal processing architectures is proposed for the user segment of the land mobile satellite communication service. This technique is described in its conceptual form, and compared with steered antenna array configurations currentl...
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| author | Beach, M Swales, S Bateman, A Edwards, D McGeehan, J |
| author_facet | Beach, M Swales, S Bateman, A Edwards, D McGeehan, J |
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| description | A unified approach to adaptive antenna array design and transceiver signal processing architectures is proposed for the user segment of the land mobile satellite communication service. This technique is described in its conceptual form, and compared with steered antenna array configurations currently favored for this class communication system. The proposed system uses established diversity combining techniques previously developed for mobile terrestrial radio. It is suggested that a diversity-based receiver architecture would allow the coherent recombination of the multipath signal energy present at the mobile terminal site, and thereby enhance system performance for a given link budget. The cophasing of the multipath signals can be implemented using a FFSR (feedforward signal regeneration) signal-processing architecture, which uses the presence of a pilot-tone within the communications channel. On transmit, a retrodirective beam is formed towards the active satellite. The economic viability of such a transceiver is also considered. |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:e6bae5f7-6f8c-4a1b-af21-c371e508206f2022-03-27T10:33:11ZDiversity combining antenna array for land mobile satellite communicationsJournal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_dcae04bcuuid:e6bae5f7-6f8c-4a1b-af21-c371e508206fEnglishSymplectic Elements at OxfordIEEE1989Beach, MSwales, SBateman, AEdwards, DMcGeehan, JA unified approach to adaptive antenna array design and transceiver signal processing architectures is proposed for the user segment of the land mobile satellite communication service. This technique is described in its conceptual form, and compared with steered antenna array configurations currently favored for this class communication system. The proposed system uses established diversity combining techniques previously developed for mobile terrestrial radio. It is suggested that a diversity-based receiver architecture would allow the coherent recombination of the multipath signal energy present at the mobile terminal site, and thereby enhance system performance for a given link budget. The cophasing of the multipath signals can be implemented using a FFSR (feedforward signal regeneration) signal-processing architecture, which uses the presence of a pilot-tone within the communications channel. On transmit, a retrodirective beam is formed towards the active satellite. The economic viability of such a transceiver is also considered. |
| spellingShingle | Beach, M Swales, S Bateman, A Edwards, D McGeehan, J Diversity combining antenna array for land mobile satellite communications |
| title | Diversity combining antenna array for land mobile satellite communications |
| title_full | Diversity combining antenna array for land mobile satellite communications |
| title_fullStr | Diversity combining antenna array for land mobile satellite communications |
| title_full_unstemmed | Diversity combining antenna array for land mobile satellite communications |
| title_short | Diversity combining antenna array for land mobile satellite communications |
| title_sort | diversity combining antenna array for land mobile satellite communications |
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