Why Are We Hatin' on ARTM CPM

Abstract

Why hasn't the Aeronautical Mobile Telemetry community adopted IRIG 106 compliant ARTM CPM as their preferred waveform for the transmission of telemetry data? Telemetry receivers in the market place today exhibit gains in detection efficiency and resynchronization speed that far exceed products of just a few years ago. Past papers have shown the link performance comparison between SOQPSK-TG, the new waveform standard, and ARTM CPM has narrowed since ARTM CPM was first standardized. This paper will present the latest performance comparison between these two waveforms during a controlled test throughout various flight conditions. The flight testing will be presented and performance comparisons are made between the waveforms using traditional methods coupled with several new performance metrics presented in this paper. A comparison of the one true measure of overall link performance, Link Availability is presented for each waveform.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 01, 2019
Accession Number
AD1075457

Entities

People

  • Kip Temple

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Automatic Gain Control
  • Data Analysis
  • Flight Paths
  • Flight Testing
  • Frequency
  • Ground Stations
  • Modulation
  • Network Science
  • Polarization
  • Radio Frequency
  • Relocation
  • Standards
  • Telemetry
  • Test Equipment
  • Transmitters
  • United States

Fields of Study

  • Engineering

Readers

  • Aerospace Test and Evaluation
  • Radio communications and signal processing.
  • Systems Analysis and Design