High-Order Intermodulation Effects in Digital Satellite Channels

The phenomenon of intermodulation generation due to passive and normally linear components is sometimes called passive intermodulation. A unique characteristic of passive intermodulation interference in communications satellites is that the products causing trouble are of high orders. Due to the immense combinatorial complexity of the problem, both exact analysis and direct simulation are almost impossible. In this paper the problem is simplified by considering a composite interference model consisting of 1) the lowest order intermodulation product (of those high-order ones) at a frequency of interest, 2) a constant-envelope carrier with random phase to account for all other intermodulation interferences by direct overlap or spectrum spreading in the vicinity, and 3) white Gaussian noise (receiver noise). An approximation of the tail statistics of this composite interference is derived, and numerical results (checked by simulation) show that the tail distribution may be very different from Gaussian; careful consideration must be rendered before resorting to the a priori Gaussian assumption.     

A nonlinear equivalent circuit method for analysis of passive intermodulation of mesh reflectors

Passive intermodulation(PIM) has gradually become a serious electromagnetic interference due to the development of high-power and high-sensitivity RF/microwave communication systems, especially large deployable mesh reflector antennas. This paper proposes a field-circuit coupling method to analyze the PIM level of mesh reflectors. With the existence of many metal–metal(MM) contacts in mesh reflectors, the contact nonlinearity becomes the main reason for PIM generation. To analyze these potential PIM sources, an equivalent circuit model including nonlinear components is constructed to model a single MM contact so that the transient current through the MM contact point induced by incident electromagnetic waves can be calculated. Taking the electric current as a new electromagnetic wave source, the far-field scattering can be obtained by the use of electromagnetic numerical methods or the communication link method. Finally, a comparison between simulation and experimental results is illustrated to verify the validity of the proposed method.     

Satellite passive intermodulation: systems considerations

Passive intermodulation (PIM) occurring in multicarrier transmission systems can have deleterious effects on system performance by significantly increasing the noise level. An argument is presented for system-level testing for PIM, particularly for high-power communications satellites. In the past, two-carrier, component-level tests were employed to ensure that PIM would not degrade system S/N performance     

Modified fast Fourier transform in FBMC for satellite communications

In this paper,a Doppler scaling fast Fourier transform (Doppler-FFT) algorithm for filter bank multi-carrier (FBMC) is proposed,which can efficiently eliminate the impact of the Doppler scaling in satellite communications.By introducing a Doppler scaling factor into the butterfly structure of the fast Fourier transform (FFT) algorithm,the proposed algorithm eliminates the differences between the Doppler shifts of the received subcarriers,and maintains the same order of computational complexity compared to that of the traditional FFT.In the process of using the new method,the Doppler scaling should be estimated by calculating the orbital data in advance.Thus,the inter-symbol interference (ISI) and the inter-carrier interference (ICI) can be completely eliminated,and the signal to interference and noise ratio (SINR) will not be affected.Simulation results also show that the proposed algorithm can achieve a 0.4 dB performance gain compared to the frequency domain equalization (FDE) algorithm in satellite communications.     

Satellite mobile communication and radio positioning systemplanning aspects

System aspects of mobile communication and position determination by satellite are described. Topics of discussion are the choice of frequency, type of modulation/multiple access and system design, and considering the effects of active and passive intermodulation and multipath interference. Communication performance and position determination analyses are conducted with respect to small-scale domestic mobile communication systems, where the satellite mobile transponder constitutes only a fraction of the otherwise fixed services C-band or Ku-band payload, and where the orbit position of the spare satellite(s) is dictated by considerations other than purely radio positioning. The system tradeoffs and arguments presented lead to a particular modulation/multiple access system, which provides high channel capacity, good ranging accuracy, and high resistance to multipath fading     

基于PSO-ELM的卫星导航欺骗式干扰检测CSCD

近年来,卫星导航系统在军事监测、精细农业、交通监控、资源勘探、灾害评估等领域得到了广泛应用,但由于卫星导航信号结构公开且到达地面时强度微弱,卫星导航系统极易受到各种各样的干扰,其中欺骗式干扰因具有较强的隐蔽性,对卫星导航系统构成巨大的安全威胁。传统的欺骗式干扰检测方法大多采用单一参数进行检测,具有一定局限性。考虑到欺骗干扰源在欺骗过程中会引起一系列参数变化,构造了一个多参数输入的卫星导航欺骗式干扰检测模型,即将多个特征参数作为极限学习机(ELM)的输入,并通过训练和学习将真实信号与欺骗信号区分开,从而实现欺骗式干扰检测。同时,利用粒子群优化(PSO)算法优化ELM中的输入权值矩阵和隐层偏置,改善由于网络参数随机生成导致分类精度低的问题。仿真实验证明了该方法在卫星导航欺骗干扰检测方面的可行性和有效性。     

数字卫星电视信号模型及性能分析

在基于数字卫星电视信号的无源探测系统中,分析其波形特点,探讨其用于雷达照射源信号的性能,对于整个系统研究来说,具有重要的意义。文中以“鑫诺一号”卫星为例,给出了基于“鑫诺一号”卫星参数为数字卫星电视信号的模型,并对该模型进行了仿真。仿真结果表明,数字卫星直播电视信号作为无源探测雷达的照射源信号具有较强的适应性,是一种优良的照射源信号。     

System aspects and transmission impairments of active phased arrays for satellite communications

The communications link and system aspects of active phased arrays that are used in multiple-beam satellite systems are assessed through measurements and analysis. Three link parameters are investigated and their effects on the overall carrier-to-interference ratio (CIR) are quantified. The first parameter is the intermodulation components that are generated at the nonlinear amplifier outputs and contribute to well-formed interference in the far-field radiation of the array. The second is the bit-error ratio (BER) degradation due to the multi-carrier operation of the active array. Measurement results are shown to demonstrate this effect. The third link parameter is the cochannel interference caused by frequency reuse in multiple-beam systems. The paper starts by reviewing early developments of phased arrays for multiple-beam satellite communications applications. A key component in these developments is the modular monolithic microwave integrated circuit (MMIC) beam-forming matrices that generate a number of simultaneous and independently digitally controlled beams     

基于四阶累积量和小波降噪的干扰抑制算法

针对盲信号分离算法在低信噪比下分离效果较差的情况,提出了一种基于四阶累积量和小波降噪的含噪盲分离算法,并将该算法用于卫星通信干扰抑制。首先,利用基于四阶累积量的盲分离算法进行信扰盲分离;然后对分离出的已被噪声污染的通信信号进行小波降噪处理。最后,对提出的算法在单音干扰下进行了性能仿真。仿真结果表明,该算法不仅使抗噪性能提高了3dB左右,而且在低信噪比下对强单音干扰具有较好的抑制效果。     

基于误码率准则的窄带干扰抑制算法性能分析

采用有效的窄带干扰抑制技术,可极大地改善扩频通信系统的性能.首先详细介绍了频域干扰抑制算法的基本思想,给出了算法实现的模块框图;其次具体分析了算法实现的关键技术：重叠加窗,背景噪声估计,干扰门限确定及干扰消除策略;最后以误码率作为干扰消除算法性能的评判标准,仿真分析了频域窄带干扰抑制技术中干扰强度、干扰频带宽度、干扰频率位置、干扰消除门限、陷幅值、加窗重叠度等因素对系统误码率的影响,为在不同条件下算法最佳参数的选取提供了依据.仿真结果表明：当干扰消除门限值取4aF,陷幅值取2σF～6σF,加窗重叠度为50％时,该算法可获得最佳抗干扰性能.     

基于空时自适应处理的GPS宽带干扰抑制技术

分析研究了GPS宽带干扰抑制的各种空时自适应处理算法,提出了期望信号协方差矩阵的计算方法,该方法使得最大信干噪比方法和最小均方误差方法可以实现。仿真结果表明：和无干扰的GPS接收机相比,基于空时自适应的干扰抑制技术不会引起很大的定位误差。     

Some practical strategies for reducing intermodulation in satellitecommunications

Various heuristic procedures for obtaining practical solutions to the general one-level carrier frequency assignment problem are described. The problem treated is general in the sense that it accommodates the case where L of the N slots may be explicitly designated as prohibited and unavailable for assignment. This problem occurs in satellite transmission with many small carriers accessing the same transponder where, due to multipath and TV interference from crosspolarized transponders of the same satellite and from copolarized transponders of the adjacent satellites, some portions of the bandwidth of the considered transponder cannot be used. To permit comparison with respect to the intermodulation advantage and central-processing-unit time required, the case without prohibited slots is considered. The sequential insertion procedure in which, starting with two carriers at the two end slots, one additional carrier at a time is optimally inserted into one of the unassigned slots is found best when the ratio between the available bandwidth and the total carrier bandwidth is greater than about 125%. All the heuristic procedures produced assignments whose intermodulation advantages are all greater than the bandwidth ratio     

地球敏感器月球自主干扰保护异常分析及对策

针对某同步三轴稳定卫星地球敏感器自主干扰保护异常的问题,分析了地球敏感器受月球干扰的机理,详细比较了地面与星载月球干扰预报算法,挖掘比对了星载干扰保护软件数据,通过分析遥测数据及事后地面仿真计算软件处理验证,对异常点进行了准确定位,得出了星载月球干扰预报算法的局限性会导致卫星自主干扰保护异常的结论。并在此基础上,提出了在轨卫星地球敏感器受月球干扰自主保护异常时的处置对策,对后续同平台卫星相关设计提出了修改建议。     

Performance evaluation of digital beamforming strategies for satellite communications

Smart antennas are becoming one of the promising technologies to meet the rapidly increasing demands for more capacity of satellite communication systems. A main component in a smart antenna system is beamforming. Because of the limitations of analog beamforming, digital beamforming will be employed in future satellite communication systems. We evaluate the performance of various digital beamforming strategies proposed in the literature for satellite communications: 1) single fixed beam/single user, 2) single fixed beam/multiple users, 3) single adaptive beam/single user, and 4) single Chebyshev dynamic beam/multiple users. Multiple criteria including coverage, system capacity, signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratio (SINR), and computation complexity are used to evaluate these satellite communication beamforming strategies. In particular, a Ka-band satellite communication system is used to address the various issues of these beamforming strategies. For the adaptive beamforming approach, subarray structure is used to obtain the weights of a large 2D antenna array, and a globally convergent recurrent neural network (RNN) is proposed to realize the adaptive beamforming algorithm in parallel. The new subarray-based neural beamforming algorithm can reduce the computation complexity greatly, and is more effective than the conventional least mean square (LMS) beamforming approach. It is shown that the single adaptive beam/single user approach has the highest system capacity.     

空间信息网络中面向双卫星的频谱共享方法

认知无线电能为缓解空间信息网络中日益增长的服务需求与紧张的频谱资源之间的矛盾提供有效的解决途径。论文针对静止轨道卫星系统和低轨道卫星系统提出一种基于频率动态分配的频谱共享方法。基于用户信号质量最差场景的干扰分析,定义波束隔离区域以避免同频干扰。此外,针对卫星运动引起的时空动态性,通过卫星星历、频率配置方案以及天线方向图等共享信息来预测可能出现的干扰,在此基础上提出频率动态分配算法来实现频谱共享。仿真结果表明,频谱共享方法在保护主用户的同时可有效提高次级用户的信号质量。     

RFI suppression for ultra wideband radar

An estimate-and-subtract algorithm is presented for the real-time digital suppression of radio frequency interference (RFI) in ultrawideband (UWB) synthetic aperture radar (SAR) systems used for foliage- and ground-penetrating imaging. The algorithm separately processes fixed- and variable-frequency interferers. Excision of estimated targets greatly reduces bias in RFI estimates, thereby reducing target energy loss and sidelobe levels in SAR imagery. Performance is demonstrated on data collected with the Army Research Laboratory's UWB rail SAR.     

通信系统中无源互调失真的测量

介绍了无源器件互调失真的测量方法，重点阐述了现代无源互调分析仪的测量原理，测量系统的建立和提高测量准确度的方法。     

考虑任务合成的成像卫星调度问题

某些成像卫星的侧摆机动性能较差,限制了卫星的观测能力,需要考虑任务合成以提高观测效率.建立了考虑任务合成的成像卫星调度问题模型,并提出了求解该模型的快速模拟退火算法(VFSA).算法针对元任务及合成任务分别构造邻域,采用合成邻域、分解邻域实现调度过程中任务动态合成操作.采用"冒险"的接受概率和快速退火计划,提高算法的求解速度.采用回火机制及3种分化策略,避免算法陷入局部最优.大规模测试算例验证了算法的效率.     

运动单阵元被动合成阵列波达方向估计

 提出了一种运动单阵元被动合成阵列波达方向(DOA)估计算法。该算法基于被动合成阵列(PSA)的概念,结合空间谱估计的思想构建了运动单阵元被动合成阵列模型,通过多次不同速度合成阵列过程实现对信号DOA的无模糊估计。通过对单次匀速合成阵列过程进行分析得到,在假设信号频率已知条件下,合成阵列算法能够达到与同孔径实阵列多重信号分类（MUSIC）算法相当的DOA估计性能。仿真验证了被动合成阵列与同孔径实阵列的渐近等效性及算法的有效性。     

考虑任务合成的成像卫星调度问题

某些成像卫星的侧摆机动性能较差,限制了卫星的观测能力,需要考虑任务合成以提高观测效率。建立了考虑任务合成的成像卫星调度问题模型,并提出了求解该模型的快速模拟退火算法(VFSA)。算法针对元任务及合成任务分别构造邻域,采用合成邻域、分解邻域实现调度过程中任务动态合成操作。采用“冒险”的接受概率和快速退火计划,提高算法的求解速度。采用回火机制及3种分化策略,避免算法陷入局部最优。大规模测试算例验证了算法的效率。