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Estimation of the error performance objectives for satellite communication systems
Author(s) -
Kim Sooyoung,
Yeo Sungmoon,
Shin Dongseok,
Song Sang Seob
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
international journal of satellite communications and networking
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.388
H-Index - 39
eISSN - 1542-0981
pISSN - 1542-0973
DOI - 10.1002/sat.919
Subject(s) - computer science , bit error rate , turbo code , forward error correction , burstiness , block error rate , algorithm , convolutional code , word error rate , error detection and correction , statistics , decoding methods , telecommunications link , telecommunications , network packet , mathematics , speech recognition , computer network
We consider the physical layer error performance parameters and design criteria for digital satellite systems established by ITU‐R Recommendation S.1062, where the performance objectives are given in terms of the bit error rate (BER) divided by the average number of errors within a cluster. It is well known that errors on satellite links employing forward error correction (FEC) schemes tend to occur in clusters. The resulting block error rate is the same as if it was caused by randomly occurring bit errors with an error‐event ratio of BER/ α , where α is the average number of errors within a cluster. The factor, α , accounts for the burstiness of the errors and also represents the ratio between the BER and the error‐event ratio. This paper proposes theoretical methods to estimate the factor, α . Using the weight distributions of the FEC codes, we derive a set of expressions for the factor, α , as well as their compact lower bounds. We present lower bounds for various FEC schemes including binary BCH codes, block turbo codes, convolutional codes, and turbo codes. The simulation results show that the proposed lower bounds are good estimates in the high signal‐to‐noise ratio region. Copyright © 2008 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.