Abstract

This thesis describes the application of a space-time block code for the legacy continuous phase modulation called "PCM/FM" in the IRIG 106 standard to solve the "two-antenna problem". This problem arises when two transmit antennas are used for full spatial coverage at the cost of self-interference caused by the different delays between the transmit antennas and the ground-based antenna. The space-time block encoder is described using bit-level operations on the input data stream. The space-time decoder uses coherent combining and maximum likelihood sequence estimation to produce an estimate of the data sequence. Simulation results for zero and various non-zero differential delays at the most difficult boundary cases produced by dual-antenna transmission show no bit error rate loss relative to the additive white Gaussian noise case.

Degree

College and Department

Ira A. Fulton College of Engineering; Electrical and Computer Engineering

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