Radio SciencePub Date : 2024-11-01DOI: 10.1029/2023RS007895
I. Bronfman;Y. Ben-Shimol;N. Blaunstein
{"title":"Effects of tropospheric turbulence on radio signal data passing atmospheric communication links","authors":"I. Bronfman;Y. Ben-Shimol;N. Blaunstein","doi":"10.1029/2023RS007895","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1029/2023RS007895","url":null,"abstract":"This paper analyzes the effects of turbulent structures of different sizes on the structural parameter of the refractive index and, consequently, on the scintillation index of radio waves passing through atmospheric channels with fading. The relationships between these parameters are analyzed and discussed not only for weak turbulence, but also for moderate and strong turbulences occurring in the mid-latitude troposphere. By using the relationship between the scintillation index of signal intensity and the well-known Rician K parameter of fast fading, and by obtaining the relationships between the signal data stream parameters, capacity, spectral efficiency, and bit error rate, and K factor of fast fading, we have numerically analyzed various cases of data transmission over tropospheric communication links with fading. This analysis considers the effects of weak, moderate, and strong turbulence on the quality of data transmission over such communication links. The results of this study can be used to improve the design and performance of tropospheric communication links in the presence of turbulence.","PeriodicalId":49638,"journal":{"name":"Radio Science","volume":"59 11","pages":"1-19"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2024-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142777714","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Modeling and design of improved-gain wideband magneto-electric dipole antenna for micro-BTS applications","authors":"Zhale Amiri;Keivan Kaboutari;Changiz Ghobadi;Javad Nourinia;Majid Shokri;Stanislav Maslovski","doi":"10.1029/2024RS008037","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1029/2024RS008037","url":null,"abstract":"A wideband Magneto-Electric Dipole (MED) antenna with high gain is proposed for the 700/800/850/900 MHz frequency bands for cellular network applications. The antenna comprises a half-wavelength bow-tie-shaped dipole, an elongated magnetic loop and a ground reflector with four Elevated Ground Planes (EGPs) at reflector's corners. The EGPs enhance the antenna gain and Front-to-Back Ratio (FBR), which is a promising technique in the MED antenna design. The antenna is excited by a Γ-shaped coupling element. An analytical model of the proposed antenna is developed by employing Schelkunoff's model for dipole antennas and the transmission line theory complemented by radiation resistance corrections. The antenna design is validated with full-wave numerical simulations. The antenna is fabricated using cut and bent metallic plates and tested in an anechoic chamber. The analytical, numerical and experimental results are in a good agreement. The experimental results confirm that the proposed MED antenna with dimensions of 1.44λ × 1.44λ × 0.27λ achieves a bandwidth of 61.53% (623.1–1176.8 MHz) for VSWR < 1.5 and a stable gain of 9.8 ± 1.9 dBi. By employing the EGPs, the realized peak gain and FBR are enhanced by 0.52 dBi and 1.1 dB, respectively.","PeriodicalId":49638,"journal":{"name":"Radio Science","volume":"59 11","pages":"1-13"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2024-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142777920","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Radio SciencePub Date : 2024-11-01DOI: 10.1029/2024RS008002
Ravandran Muttiah
{"title":"Pseudo-random code generator design for satellite transponder of 5G wireless networks","authors":"Ravandran Muttiah","doi":"10.1029/2024RS008002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1029/2024RS008002","url":null,"abstract":"In satellite communication systems, a data stream for a direct sequence spread spectrum transmitter is multiplied by a pseudo-random code. It can then be transmitted over the same microwave channel as multiple users. Correlating the received composite signal with the provided pseudo-random code at the receiver end will extract the original data stream without interference. The proposed transponder models here are to achieve the objective of minimizing the satellite onboard components, increasing the speed of operations for higher bandwidth, and transmitting more information to a large group of users. However, taking advantage of this technology and overcoming the challenges of implementing it in a real-time environment, a satellite transponder was designed at a speed of 128 bps. The satellite transponder here is to accommodate satellites interconnecting 5G wireless networking systems. This paper describes the useful roles of pseudo-random code generations and the methods of applications to track the desired binary data bit sequences according to the preferred carrier frequency channels. The designed transponder schematic circuit was tested for the received uplink signal at the carrier frequency 13 GHz and transmit downlink signal at 11 GHz. To evaluate the designed onboard transmitter system performance, initially, the system was analyzed in terms of energy per bit-to-noise power spectral density ratio, bit error rate, and finally signal-to-noise power ratio. The design system was measured for the operations with minimum bandwidth of 100 MHz upto 1.28 GHz for the input bit rates of 200 Mbps upto 2.56 Gbps respectively.","PeriodicalId":49638,"journal":{"name":"Radio Science","volume":"59 11","pages":"1-20"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2024-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142777713","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Radio SciencePub Date : 2024-10-01DOI: 10.1029/2024RS007990
B. Honarbakhsh
{"title":"Analysis of slitted parallel-plate waveguides using the method of kobayashi potential","authors":"B. Honarbakhsh","doi":"10.1029/2024RS007990","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1029/2024RS007990","url":null,"abstract":"a new solution for the analysis of slitted parallel-plate waveguide is proposed using the method of Kobayashi Potential (KP). The interior and exterior problems are studied for the TE and TM polarizations. Simplified forms of Weber-Schafheitlin (WS) integrals are utilized for problem formulation. The Fourier function space is exploited to construct the governing linear system of equations. A simple strategy is suggested for the evaluation of the required integrals. Numerical results are validated through convergence analysis and available reports based on the Moment Method (MM). It is shown that the KP is superior to the conventional MM in the sense of tracking edge singularities, especially when the radiation problem is of interest.","PeriodicalId":49638,"journal":{"name":"Radio Science","volume":"59 10","pages":"1-22"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2024-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142595847","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Landmine detection using electromagnetic time reversal-based methods: 2. performance analysis of TR-MUSIC","authors":"Hamidreza Karami;André Koch;Carlos Romero;Marcos Rubinstein;Farhad Rachidi","doi":"10.1029/2024RS007972","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1029/2024RS007972","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, a series of numerical simulations are conducted for various 2D and 3D configurations to demonstrate the performance of the Time Reversal Multiple Signal Classification (TR-MUSIC) method. The results reveal the excellent performance of TR-MUSIC, taking into account the effects of noise, soil types (both homogeneous and layered), and their electrical parameters, as well as different types of targets (varying in number, size, shape, and location). Additionally, unlike other electromagnetic TR-based techniques, TR-MUSIC offers very high resolution (on the order of 1/10 or higher) with a reasonable number of sensors, enabling the detection of multiple closely spaced targets. In TR-based methods, reflections from the object(s) or landmine(s) are crucial and are determined by the difference between the constitutive parameters (e.g., permittivity, permeability, and conductivity) of the landmine(s) and their surrounding medium. Therefore, TR-based approaches, similar to conventional GPR-based approaches, are suitable for detecting objects or landmines with significant differences in constitutive parameters compared to their immersion medium. This research primarily focuses on metallic objects or landmines.","PeriodicalId":49638,"journal":{"name":"Radio Science","volume":"59 10","pages":"1-14"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2024-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142595780","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Radio SciencePub Date : 2024-10-01DOI: 10.1029/2024RS008019
Ying Han;Qingjie Liu;Jianping Huang;Zhong Li;Rui Yan;Jing Yuan;Xuhui Shen;Lili Xing;Guoli Pang
{"title":"Automatic extraction of VLF constant-frequency electromagnetic wave frequency based on an improved Vgg16-Unet","authors":"Ying Han;Qingjie Liu;Jianping Huang;Zhong Li;Rui Yan;Jing Yuan;Xuhui Shen;Lili Xing;Guoli Pang","doi":"10.1029/2024RS008019","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1029/2024RS008019","url":null,"abstract":"Constant Frequency Electromagnetic Waves (CFEWs) refer to electromagnetic waves with a constant frequency. Man-made CFEWs are mainly used in wireless communication, scientific research, global navigation and positioning systems, and military radar. CFEWs exhibit horizontal line characteristics higher than the background on spectrograms. In this study, we focus on Very Low Frequency (VLF) waveform data and power spectral data collected by the China Seismo-Electromagnetic Satellite (CSES) Electromagnetic Field Detector (EFD). We utilize deep learning techniques to construct an improved Vgg16-Unet model for automatically detecting horizontal lines on time-frequency spectrogram and extracting their frequencies. First, we transform waveform data into time-frequency spectrogram with a duration of 2 s using Short-Time Fourier Transform. Then, we manually label horizontal lines on the time-frequency spectrogram using the Labelme tool to establish the dataset. Next, we establish and improve the Vgg16-Unet deep learning model. Finally, we train and test the model using the dataset. Statistical experimental results show that the error rate of line detection is 0, indicating high reliability of the model, with fewer parameters and fast computation speed suitable for practical applications. Not only do we detect lines through the model, but we also obtain their frequencies. Additionally, in batch-generated power spectrogram of CFEWs, we discover some unstable phenomena such as frequency shifts and fluctuations, which contribute to understanding the propagation mechanism of CFEWs in the ionosphere and improving the accuracy of related systems.","PeriodicalId":49638,"journal":{"name":"Radio Science","volume":"59 10","pages":"1-14"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2024-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142595787","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Radio SciencePub Date : 2024-10-01DOI: 10.1029/2024RS008042
Tzu-Ming Huang;Yi-Cheng Lin
{"title":"Realizing orthogonal modes in compact cavity-backed dual-polarized antenna through simple feeding structures for millimeter-wave AiP applications","authors":"Tzu-Ming Huang;Yi-Cheng Lin","doi":"10.1029/2024RS008042","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1029/2024RS008042","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a dual-polarized cavity-backed antenna designed for mm-wave applications, featuring simple feeding structures with a high-isolation for 60 GHz compact AiP applications. The dual-polarization design relies on two separate feed ports that excite two orthogonal modes within the same resonant cavity, achieving very high port isolation of up to 40 dB over the entire band. We conducted a detail analysis of the antenna, including its working principles and parametric studies. For verification, we fabricated an antenna test kit using standard printed process on substrates and measured the kit from the back-side of a GSG probing platform. The proposed antenna demonstrates a wide impedance bandwidth, stable radiation patterns, very low cross-polarization levels, and a high radiation efficiency. The co-located cavity-backed design ensures the compactness and facilitates easy integration with ICs in a very small AiP module. These features make the proposed antenna highly suitable for 60 GHz AiP applications, such as high-data-rate wireless communication and mmW polarimetric radar systems.","PeriodicalId":49638,"journal":{"name":"Radio Science","volume":"59 10","pages":"1-15"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2024-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142595808","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Radio SciencePub Date : 2024-10-01DOI: 10.1029/2024RS008038
Guanjun Xu;Lianning Cai;Xianqiang Li;Yanli Shao;Zhaohui Song
{"title":"Channel estimation for deep space communications under the effect of solar scintillation","authors":"Guanjun Xu;Lianning Cai;Xianqiang Li;Yanli Shao;Zhaohui Song","doi":"10.1029/2024RS008038","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1029/2024RS008038","url":null,"abstract":"During probe-to-Earth superior conjunction, deep space communication channels will suffer from solar scintillation, leading to amplitude attenuation of received signals. This study aims to obtain the channel state information (CSI) on deep space channels affected by solar scintillation. Classical least squares (LS) and minimum mean squared error (MMSE) methods are adopted to perform channel estimation and compensate for the channel fading. Simulation results indicate that under the effect of solar scintillation, performing channel estimation technology can significantly improve bit error rate (BER) performance compared to systems without CSI, and the MMSE algorithm outperforms the LS for both BER and normalized mean squared error (NMSE). In addition, we also find that pilot density, geometric parameters, and the outer scale of solar wind turbulence has great influence on the estimation performance.","PeriodicalId":49638,"journal":{"name":"Radio Science","volume":"59 10","pages":"1-10"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2024-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142595829","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Radio SciencePub Date : 2024-10-01DOI: 10.1029/2022RS007632
B. Liu;G. W. Perry;A. T. Chartier
{"title":"An assessment of HF radio wave propagation in antarctica for a radio link between McMurdo and south pole station","authors":"B. Liu;G. W. Perry;A. T. Chartier","doi":"10.1029/2022RS007632","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1029/2022RS007632","url":null,"abstract":"In this work, we analyze data collected by an HF transmitter/receiver radio link, operating as an oblique ionosonde between the McMurdo Station (transmitter) and South Pole Station (receiver) at 4.1, 5.1, 6.0, 6.4, and 7.2 MHz between 28 February and 14 March 2019. To help contextualize the link's data we have performed numerical raytrace simulations to help understand the observations. By considering both the data and simulations, we have identified both single- and two-hop E- and F-region propagation modes in the data, where the multi-hop modes were observed in the hours around sunrise and sunset in the 4.1 and 5.1 MHz channels. This is an unexpected result given the accepted wisdom that multi-hop modes, which require a ground scatter component, cannot be supported in Antarctica because of the highly absorptive ice covering much of the continent. Our results show that multi-hop propagation modes can be supported in the region under specific ionospheric conditions—around sunrise and sunset—if the mode's ground scatter component is collocated with the Transantarctic Mountains. The mountains are located along the great-circle path between the link's transmitter and receiver. However, the combination of favorable ionospheric and ground scattering conditions makes the detection of the multi-hop mode a rare occurrence in the data set analyzed here. These findings are critical to data analysis efforts of any current or future oblique ionosonde systems operating in Antarctica and other regions such as the Arctic.","PeriodicalId":49638,"journal":{"name":"Radio Science","volume":"59 10","pages":"1-17"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2024-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142595781","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}