CDM-Qx Satellite Modem

Revision 5

Forward Error Correction Options

MN/CDMQx.IOM

 

Table 6-4. Available TPC Modes

 

 

Code Rate/Modulation

Data Rate Range

Rate 21/44 BPSK

32 kbps to 4.772 Mbps

Rate 5/16 BPSK

32 kbps to 3.125 Mbps

Rate 21/44 QPSK

32 kbps to 10 Mbps

Rate 3/4 QPSK

32 kbps to 15 Mbps

Rate 3/4 8-PSK

288 kbps to 20 Mbps

Rate 3/4 16-QAM

384 kbps to 20 Mbps

Rate 7/8 QPSK

32 kbps to 17.5 Mbps

Rate 7/8 8-PSK

336 kbps to 20 Mbps

Rate 7/8 16-QAM

448 kbps to 20 Mbps

Rate 17/18 QPSK

32 kbps to 18.88 Mbps

Rate 17/18 8-PSK

362.7 kbps to 20 Mbps

6.5.3End-to-End Processing Delay

In many cases, FEC methods that provide increased coding gain do so at the expense of increased processing delay. However, with TPC, this increase in delay is very modest. The table below shows, for the Modem, the processing delays for the major FEC types, including the three TPC modes:

Table 6-5. Turbo Product Coding processing delay comparison

FEC Mode (64 kbps data rate)

End-to-end delay, ms

 

 

Viterbi, Rate 1/2

12

 

 

Viterbi Rate 1/2 + Reed-Solomon

266

 

 

Turbo Product Coding, Rate 3/4

47

 

 

Turbo Product Coding, Rate 21/44, BPSK

64

 

 

Turbo Product Coding, Rate 5/16, BPSK

48

 

 

Turbo Product Coding, Rate 7/8

245 *

 

 

Turbo Product Coding, Rate 17/18

69

 

 

Note that in all cases, the delay is inversely proportional to data rate, so for 128 kbps, the delay values would be half of those shown above. It can be seen that the concatenated Reed-Solomon cases increase the delay significantly (due mainly to interleaving/de- interleaving), while the TPC cases yield delays, which are much less.

*A larger block is used for the Rate 7/8 code, which increases decoding delay.

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