Method and apparatus for providing energy dispersal using frequency diversity in a satellite communications system
First Claim
1. An apparatus for dispersing energy over a wide bandwidth when communicating digital data having a predetermined data rate comprising:
- means for modulating the digital data by a predetermined carrier frequency;
means for generating a plurality of M adjacent channels, M being an integer multiple of two less than or equal to sixteen, wherein each channel has a sinusoidal waveform in a mathematical relationship to each sinusoidal waveform of each other channel and each channel has a predetermined phase relationship to the digital data having the predetermined data rate; and
means for dispersing the modulated digital data on the M channels, wherein each channel contains the same modulated digital data.
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Abstract
A satellite communications system for dispersing energy over a wide bandwidth includes a transmitter, a communication link, and a receiver. The transmitter takes a digital data signal and modulates that signal at a prescribed carrier frequency. The modulated digital data signal is then spread over M adjacent digital channels (M≧2 and being an integer multiple of 2), each channel containing the same information, to disperse the energy over a wide frequency range. The spectral bandwidth of the adjacent digital channels is chosen with compressed spacing to conserve bandwidth. Next, the spread modulated data signal is transmitted via the communication link to the receiver. In particular, a waveform generator at the transmitter generates a phase-aligned multichannel frequency diversity waveform according to a data clock at a predetermined phase relationship to the digital data. At the receiver, the spread modulated data signal received is mixed with a despreading waveform generated in a similar manner to the waveform spectrum generated at the transmitter to recover the modulated data signal. The despreading waveform is generated according to a symbol clock signal recovered from the received modulated data signal. A demodulator recovers the original digital data from the modulated data signal. To achieve higher spreading factors, multichannel frequency diversity may be utilized with known spread spectrum techniques to achieve high data recovery rates during adverse weather (fading) conditions at high radio frequencies in the microwave and higher regions of the radio spectrum.
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77 Claims
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1. An apparatus for dispersing energy over a wide bandwidth when communicating digital data having a predetermined data rate comprising:
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means for modulating the digital data by a predetermined carrier frequency; means for generating a plurality of M adjacent channels, M being an integer multiple of two less than or equal to sixteen, wherein each channel has a sinusoidal waveform in a mathematical relationship to each sinusoidal waveform of each other channel and each channel has a predetermined phase relationship to the digital data having the predetermined data rate; and means for dispersing the modulated digital data on the M channels, wherein each channel contains the same modulated digital data. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4)
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5. A communications system for transmitting and receiving digital data at a predetermined data rate comprising:
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first channel generating means for generating a plurality of adjacent digital channels, each channel having a sinusoidal waveform in a mathematical relationship to each sinusoidal waveform of each other channel and a phase relationship to the predetermined data rate; means for modulating the digital data by a carrier frequency; means responsive to said first generating means and said modulating means for forming a composite signal by impressing the modulated digital data onto each channel; means for transmitting the composite signal; means for receiving the composite signal; clock recovery means for recovering a data clock based on the predetermined data rate of the received composite signal; second channel generating means, responsive to the data clock, for generating each channel generated by said first channel generating means, each channel having a sinusoidal waveform in the mathematical relationship to each sinusoidal waveform of each other channel and the phase relationship to the predetermined data rate prescribed by said first channel generating means; means, responsive to said second channel generating means, for coherently combining channels generated by said second channel generating means with the composite signal to recover the modulated digital data; and demodulating means for demodulating the digital data. - View Dependent Claims (6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19)
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20. In a system for receiving a modulated data signal transmitted at a predetermined data rate via a communication link, a receiving apparatus comprising:
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clock recovery means for recovering a data clock based on the predetermined data rate from the modulated data signal; periodic waveform generating means, responsive to the data clock, for generating a plurality of adjacent digital channels, each channel having a sinusoidal waveform having a first mathematical relationship to each sinusoidal waveform of each other channel and a phase relationship to the predetermined data rate; means, responsive to said waveform generating means, for recovering digital data from the modulated data signal based on each sinusoidal waveform of each channel; and demodulating means for demodulating the digital data. - View Dependent Claims (21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31)
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32. In a system for transmitting digital data having a predetermined data rate via a communication link to a receiver, a transmitting apparatus comprising:
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periodic waveform generating means for generating a plurality of adjacent digital channels, each channel having a sinusoidal waveform having a mathematical relationship to each sinusoidal waveform of each other channel and a phase relationship to the predetermined data rate; means for modulating the digital data by a carrier frequency; and means responsive to said waveform generating means and said modulating means for forming a composite signal by impressing the modulated digital data onto each channel. - View Dependent Claims (33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42)
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43. A method of dispersing energy over a wide bandwidth when communicating digital data having a predetermined data rate, said method comprising the steps of:
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modulating the digital data by a predetermined carrier frequency; generating a plurality of M adjacent channels, M being an integer multiple of two less than or equal to sixteen, wherein each channel has a sinusoidal waveform mathematically related to each sinusoidal waveform of each other channel and each channel has a predetermined phase relationship to the digital data having the predetermined data rate; and dispersing the modulated digital data on the M channels, wherein each channel contains the same modulated digital data. - View Dependent Claims (44, 45)
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46. In a communications system for transmitting and receiving digital data at a predetermined data rate a method comprising the steps of:
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a) generating a plurality of adjacent digital channels, each channel having a sinusoidal waveform having a mathematical relationship to each sinusoidal waveform of each other channel and a phase relationship to the predetermined data rate; b) modulating the digital data by a carrier frequency; c) impressing the modulated digital data onto each channel to form a composite signal; d) transmitting the composite signal from a first station; e) receiving the composite signal at a second station; f) recovering a data clock based on the predetermined data rate of the received composite signal; g) generating sinusoidal waveforms based on the recovered data clock, the sinusoidal waveforms corresponding to each channel generated at said step a), each sinusoidal waveform having the mathematical relationship to each other sinusoidal waveform and the phase relationship prescribed at said step a); h) recovering the modulated digital data from the composite signal based on the sinusoidal waveforms generated at said step g); and i) demodulating the digital data. - View Dependent Claims (47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58)
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59. A method of receiving a modulated data signal transmitted at a predetermined data rate via a communication link, comprising the steps of:
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recovering a data clock from the modulated data signal based on the predetermined data rate; in response to the data clock, generating sinusoidal waveforms, each sinusoidal waveform corresponding to at least one of a plurality of adjacent digital channels, each sinusoidal waveform having a mathematical relationship to each other sinusoidal waveform and a phase relationship to the predetermined data rate; recovering modulated digital data from the modulated data signal based on the generated sinusoidal waveforms; and demodulating the digital data. - View Dependent Claims (60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68)
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69. A method of transmitting digital data having a predetermined data rate via a communication link to a receiver comprising the steps of:
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generating a plurality of adjacent digital channels, each channel having a sinusoidal waveform having a mathematical relationship to each sinusoidal waveform of each other channel and a phase relationship to the predetermined data rate; modulating the digital data by a carrier frequency; and impressing the modulated digital data onto each channel to form a composite signal. - View Dependent Claims (70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77)
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