Design Consideration and Performance of Networked Narrowband Waveforms for Tactical Communications

Abstract

An air-interface architecture to ensure reliable signal acquisition and synchronisation for a narrowband networking waveform is presented. Simulation results show that a relatively simple preamble design can be used to ensure sufficiently reliable estimates of the unknown physical layer synchronisation parameters i.e. phase, frequency offset and timing errors. Results are presented comparing the error variance of the synchronisation parameters with the lower bounds for an unbiased estimator. The results enable system designers to select the operating noise tolerances for a given radio and modify the preamble architecture accordingly.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 2010
Accession Number
ADA584154

Entities

People

  • Colin Brown
  • Jeff Pugh
  • Phil Vigneron

Organizations

  • Communications Research Centre Canada

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acquisition
  • Algorithms
  • Command And Control Systems
  • Communication Systems
  • Data Rate
  • Demodulation
  • Digital Communications
  • Estimators
  • Frequency
  • Military Communications
  • Modulation
  • Narrowband
  • Signal Processing
  • Simulations
  • Tactical Communications
  • Tactical Networks
  • Waveforms

Readers

  • Adaptive Control and Estimation with Uncertainty in Dynamic Systems.
  • Computer Networking