Tutorial: Clock and Clock Systems Performance Measures

Abstract

This tutorial contains basic material - familiar to many. This will be used as a foundation upon which we will build - bringing forth some new material and equations that have been developed especially for this tutorial. These will provide increased understanding toward parameter estimation of clock and clock system's performance. There is a very important ITU Handbook being prepared at this time which goes much further than this tutorial has time to do. I highly recommend it as an excellent resource document. The final draft is just now being completed, and it should be ready late in 1996. It is an outstanding handbook; Dr. Sydnor proposed it to the ITU-R several years ago, and is the editor with my assistance. We have some of the best contributors in the community from around the world who have written the ten chapters in this handbook. The title of the Handbook is, "Selection and use of Precise Frequency and Time Systems." It will be available from the ITU secretariat in Geneva, Switzerland, but NAVTEC Seminars also plans to be a distributor.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 01, 1995
Accession Number
ADA518410

Entities

People

  • David W. Allan

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Human Systems
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Accuracy
  • Algorithms
  • Atomic Beam Masers
  • Atomic Clocks
  • Clocks
  • Estimators
  • Frequency
  • Frequency Standards
  • Loran
  • Measurement
  • Oscillators
  • Random Walk
  • Sine Waves
  • Square Roots
  • Standards
  • Time Intervals
  • White Noise

Readers

  • Academic Conference Management
  • Business Analytics
  • Positioning, Navigation, and Timing (PNT) Technology.