Autonomous Software-Defined Radio Receivers for Deep Space Applications

JON HAMKINS, PhD, is the Technical Supervisor of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory's Information Processing Group. Dr. Hamkins, a Senior Member of the IEEE, has been awarded several NASA Tech Briefs for his innovations in signal processing, coding theory, and optical communications. MARVIN K. SIMON, PhD, is a Senior Research Engineer at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. His research in modulation, coding, and synchronization has been instrumental in the design of many of NASA's deep space and near earth missions, for which he has been awarded dozens of patents and awards. This is Dr. Simon's twelfth book.

• Foreword xiiiPreface xvAcknowledgments xviiContributors xixChapter 1: Introduction and Overview 1by Jon Hamkins and Marvin K. SimonChapter 2: The Electra Radio 19by Edgar Satorius, Tom Jedrey, David Bell, Ann Devereaux, Todd Ely, Edwin Grigorian, Igor Kuperman, and Alan LeeChapter 3: Modulation Index Estimation 45by Marvin K. Simon and Jon HamkinsChapter 4: Frequency Correction 63by Dariush DivsalarChapter 5: Data Format and Pulse Shape Classification 85by Marvin K. Simon and Dariush DivsalarChapter 6: Signal-to-Noise Ratio Estimation 121by Marvin K. Simon and Samuel DolinarChapter 7: Data Rate Estimation 193by Andre Tkacenko and Marvin K. SimonChapter 8: Carrier Synchronization BPA 227by Marvin K. Simon and Jon HamkinsChapter 9: Modulation Classification 271by Jon Hamkins and Marvin K. SimonChapter 10: Symbol Synchronization 321by Marvin K. SimonChapter 11: Implementation and Interaction of Estimators and Classifiers 391by Jon Hamkins and Hooman Shirani-MehrReference 408Acronyms and Abbreviations 411Index 417