Design of a space channel simulator using virtual instrumentation software

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

Volumn 51, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 912-917

  Horan, Stephen ^a   Wang, Ruhai ^a  

^a NEW MEXICO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Simulation design; Space communications channels; Virtual instrumentation

Indexed keywords

BIT ERROR RATE; COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; INTERNET; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; VIRTUAL REALITY;

CHANNEL DELAY; CHANNEL ERROR-RATE; SPACE CHANNEL SIMULATOR; VIRTUAL INSTRUMENTATION SOFTWARE;

SATELLITE COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 0036825659     PISSN: 00189456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIM.2002.806026     Document Type: Article

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