Autonomous Software-Defined Radio Receivers for Deep Space Applications (eBook)

JON HAMKINS, PhD, is the Technical Supervisor of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory's Information Processing Group. Dr. Hamkins, a Senior Member of the IEEE, has been awarded several NASA Tech Briefs for his innovations in signal processing, coding theory, and optical communications. MARVIN K. SIMON, PhD, is a Senior Research Engineer at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. His research in modulation, coding, and synchronization has been instrumental in the design of many of NASA's deep space and near earth missions, for which he has been awarded dozens of patents and awards. This is Dr. Simon's twelfth book.

Foreword xiii

Preface xv

Acknowledgments xvii

Contributors xix

Chapter 1: Introduction and Overview 1
by Jon Hamkins and Marvin K. Simon

Chapter 2: The Electra Radio 19
by Edgar Satorius, Tom Jedrey, David Bell, Ann Devereaux, Todd Ely, Edwin Grigorian, Igor Kuperman, and Alan Lee

Chapter 3: Modulation Index Estimation 45
by Marvin K. Simon and Jon Hamkins

Chapter 4: Frequency Correction 63
by Dariush Divsalar

Chapter 5: Data Format and Pulse Shape Classification 85
by Marvin K. Simon and Dariush Divsalar

Chapter 6: Signal-to-Noise Ratio Estimation 121
by Marvin K. Simon and Samuel Dolinar

Chapter 7: Data Rate Estimation 193
by Andre Tkacenko and Marvin K. Simon

Chapter 8: Carrier Synchronization BPA 227
by Marvin K. Simon and Jon Hamkins

Chapter 9: Modulation Classification 271
by Jon Hamkins and Marvin K. Simon

Chapter 10: Symbol Synchronization 321
by Marvin K. Simon

Chapter 11: Implementation and Interaction of Estimators and Classifiers 391
by Jon Hamkins and Hooman Shirani-Mehr

Reference 408

Acronyms and Abbreviations 411

Index 417