Scintillation Effects on Deep Space Telecommunication Links through Solar Corona

When radio waves pass through the solar corona and solar wind regions close to the Sun, strong scintillation effects appear at their amplitude, frequency and phase, especially in the regions very close to the Sun. This paper describes the effects in solar corona, and presents a Rician statistical mo...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Published in2009 5th International Conference on Wireless Communications, Networking and Mobile Computing pp. 1 - 4
Main Author Shengbo Hu
Format Conference Proceeding
LanguageEnglish
Published IEEE 01.09.2009
Subjects
Computer simulation
Contracts
Corona
Equations
Laboratories
Markov processes
Packaging
Probability
Propagation delay
Throughput
Online AccessGet full text

Cover

More Information
Summary:When radio waves pass through the solar corona and solar wind regions close to the Sun, strong scintillation effects appear at their amplitude, frequency and phase, especially in the regions very close to the Sun. This paper describes the effects in solar corona, and presents a Rician statistical model of the solar scintillation channel. The simulation results show that the much larger scintillation index at X-band (m = 0xutri37) than at Ka-band (m = 0xutri064) results in a much higher performance degradation, and at BER = 10 nwarr5 , the link performance at X-band degrades more than 8 dB, while the Ka-band performance degrades less than 0.2 dB.
ISBN:9781424436927
1424436923
1424436915
9781424436910
ISSN:2161-9646
DOI:10.1109/WICOM.2009.5302982