Signal integration of metastable information communication system and its limitation

This paper considers the concept of an MSCS (metastable information communications system) for remote transmission of measured data with gradual variations of the transmission frame cycle and proposes a signal integration method for improvement of the transmission characteristics. Based on the proposed method, a signal integration algorithm for a system remotely transmitting measured sensor data from on board a moving body is derived. An improvement of the received SNR (signal‐to‐noise ratio) is demonstrated by simulation. As a specific example, the integration effect and limitation of the number of integrations determined by the relationship between the error ellipse and the speed of movement is derived with a GPS as a measurement sensor. An example result includes a maximum of 7 integrations for an allowable error of ±16 m for the GPS sensor measurement, a frame period of 1 s, and a speed of movement of 2.5 m/s, with the bit error rate improved by 8 dB when the input SNR is 0 dB. © 2004 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Electron Comm Jpn Pt 1, 88(3): 44–52, 2005; Published online in Wiley InterScience (www.interscience.wiley.com). DOI 10.1002/ecja.20154