HF channel modeling for real-time packet transmission
Mehdi Rostami, Joao Angeja, João Tavares, António Navarro · Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE · 2003
The recent rapid growth of multimedia communications has efficiently allowed delivering different services, formats and contents over an enormous variety of digital networks with IP acting as an integration protocol. The main objective of this research work is to evaluate the performance of an high frequency (HF) wireless network for transporting multimedia services according to UDP/IP protocol stack. Besides, allowing civil/amateur communications, HF bands are also used for long distance wireless military communications. Therefore, our work is based on NATO Link and Physical layer standards, STANAG 5066 and STANAG 4539, respectively. A typical transmission bandwidth is about 3 kHz resulting in a varying bit rate in the range between 75 and 12800 bps. This very low bit rate by itself imposes serious challenges for reliable real time multimedia communications. This paper discusses optimal combinations of channel coders, modulators and packet sizes in order to achieve the greatest throughput in function of the signal-to-noise ratio and HF channel conditions.