Effectiveness of Data Triplication in Harsh Electromagnetic Environments

Abstract

In this paper, the effectiveness of four variants of data triplication with time or bit diversity are tested and compared under harsh electromagnetic disturbances. By using an in-house built framework, harsh reverberation room conditions are simulated. To compare the four variants, we established a baseline with unprotected data. The results show that certain variants of triplication are better equipped to deal with electromagnetic interference than others, depending on the environmental factors. In all cases, data triplication improves the data error rate of a communication channel. However, we also found that under specific but plausible conditions, all advantages of triplication are lost and the data error rate does not improve compared to unprotected data.