Bit Error Rate Comparison of Repeater and Regenerative Communication Satellites
- Resource Type
- Authors
- Tsou-Chiang Huang; J. Omura; L. Biederman
- Source
- IEEE Transactions on Communications. 28:1088-1097
- Subject
- Repeater
Engineering
Frequency-shift keying
business.industry
Spread spectrum
Physics::Space Physics
Telecommunications link
Bit error rate
Electronic engineering
Communications satellite
Satellite
Electrical and Electronic Engineering
business
Physics::Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics
Phase-shift keying
- Language
- ISSN
- 0096-2244
We evaluate and compare bit error rates for conventional (linear and nonlinear) repeater satellites and regenerative satellites. This work is based on a new formulation for error rates using the generalized moment technique for numerical evaluation of error rates. Both coherent MPSK and noncoherent MFSK modulations are considered with regenerative satellites. The results show that regenerative satellites are especially effective against uplink CW interference when on-board despreading of spread spectrum signals is included as part of the satellite processing.