High data rate meteor-burst communications
Donald L. Schilling, G.R. Lomp, L.A. Lundberg · 1990
Results of an experimental study of the meteor-burst channel which illustrates its time-varying bursty nature are presented. In addition, the authors describe an innovative approach to data transmission over meteor-burst systems, that is, the use of the feedback-adaptive variable-rate (FAVR) system, which allows the maximum amount of information to be transmitted over each meteor-burst channel. For underdense meteor channels the FAVR performance is compared with that of optimum system, i.e. a system capable of changing its bit rate instantaneously to channel conditions so as to maintain a constant SNR in each bit, and with that of a constant optimum-rate/burst system. It is shown that FAVR can result in a throughput increase of 17 times over that of the optimal fixed-rate system.>