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Fade Mitigation for Air-to-Ground Communication in Aeronautical Telemetry

by Manisha Bhatt, Gopal Patel, Mukesh Pathela
International Journal of Computer Applications
Foundation of Computer Science (FCS), NY, USA
Volume 56 - Number 6
Year of Publication: 2012
Authors: Manisha Bhatt, Gopal Patel, Mukesh Pathela
10.5120/8892-2906

Manisha Bhatt, Gopal Patel, Mukesh Pathela . Fade Mitigation for Air-to-Ground Communication in Aeronautical Telemetry. International Journal of Computer Applications. 56, 6 ( October 2012), 1-5. DOI=10.5120/8892-2906

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author = { Manisha Bhatt, Gopal Patel, Mukesh Pathela },
title = { Fade Mitigation for Air-to-Ground Communication in Aeronautical Telemetry },
journal = { International Journal of Computer Applications },
issue_date = { October 2012 },
volume = { 56 },
number = { 6 },
month = { October },
year = { 2012 },
issn = { 0975-8887 },
pages = { 1-5 },
numpages = {9},
url = { https://ijcaonline.org/archives/volume56/number6/8892-2906/ },
doi = { 10.5120/8892-2906 },
publisher = {Foundation of Computer Science (FCS), NY, USA},
address = {New York, USA}
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%I Foundation of Computer Science (FCS), NY, USA
Abstract

Aeronautical Telemetry links were comprised of a transmit antenna mounted on the underside of fuselage and a fixed ground station equipped with a tracking antenna. Air-to-ground channel for this telemetry link can be estimated as line of sight propagation. But there is link loss observed at ground control station for certain instant of time. Possible causes of link loss in this case are due to aircraft maneuvering and fading. So analysis of various fade mitigation techniques as well as bit error rate (BER) and signal to noise (SNR) ratio performance comparison between selection diversity, equal gain combining and maximal ratio combining scheme is done. Finally bit error rate performance comparison curve between maximal ratio scheme (MRC) and Alamouti dual antenna transmission scheme is plotted, in order to find out the best scheme for fade mitigation, among all the above mentioned schemes.

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Index Terms

Computer Science
Information Sciences

Keywords

Aircraft maneuvering Aeronautical Telemetry Alamouti code Diversity Fade mitigation SC MRC EGC