The effects of transmitter/receiver clock time base instability on coherent communication system performance
Abstract
The purpose of this paper is to present a model and associated analysis of the deleterious effects which both transmitter and receiver data clock time-base instability have on bit error probability. The types of time-base instability modeled and analyzed include bit jitter (epoch jitter), bit jitter rate (time interval jitter) and data asymmetry. The bit error probability is determined as a function of the statistical characteristics of the time-base instability, the data transition density, the signal-to-noise ratio in the bit rate bandwidth and the mechanizations of both the data bit detector and bit synchronizer. Numerical results are provided.
- Publication:
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NTC '81; National Telecommunications Conference, Volume 3
- Pub Date:
- 1981
- Bibcode:
- 1981ntc.....3....1C
- Keywords:
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- Bit Error Rate;
- Bit Synchronization;
- Coherent Radiation;
- Pulse Communication;
- Transmitter Receivers;
- Signal To Noise Ratios;
- Statistical Analysis;
- Space Communications, Spacecraft Communications, Command and Tracking