LINK DEPENDENT ADAAPTIVE RADIO PERFORMANCE ON DYNAMIC CHANNEL

Abstract

This paper includes analysis of aeronautical channel dynamics in flight simulations of the Link Dependent Adaptive Radio (LDAR). LDAR system includes realistic measurement of the throughput gain with the adaptation of the modulation and coding parameters for telemetry applications. To increase the accuracy, channel dynamics have been incorporated in the simulation. Dynamic channel simulator is developed by the customized two ray ground reflection channel model including Doppler shift, delay spread, and other channel dynamics. This paper shows the comparison of the performance of LDAR using both static and dynamic channel. The impact of creating accurate simulation results with this dynamic channel simulator reaches beyond LDAR and will help the telemetry community to improve the accuracy of computer simulation in the design and pre-test stages.