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Burst Mode AGC Loop and Preamble Detector for VDL Mode-2  

Gim, Jong-Man ((주)파인텔레콤 연구 2 팀)
Eun, Chang-Soo (충남대학교 전기정보통신공학부)
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The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences / v.34, no.7C, 2009 , pp. 706-714 More about this Journal
Abstract
In this paper, we proposed a burst mode AGC loop and preamble detector applicable for VDL(VHF Digital Link) mode-2 using D8PSK modulation scheme and the performance analysis of proposed schemes is described. Generally the AGC scheme can be divided into two types, continuos and burst mode AGC. The continuos mode is performed well only with an analog feedback AGC loop. But the analog feedback AGC loop is not suitable for burst mode since its gain lock time is more than preamble duration, which causes the preamble detector misses preamble. Hence a fast digital AGC loop is required for burst mode. Also the AGC loop has to be designed with full gain during idle time to detect bursts although the signal level is very low. If the time to acquire gain lock is slow, the preamble detector fail to detect burst due to saturation of a lot of preamble samples. The receiver performance might be down even if the burst was detected because the preamble is used to estimate several parameters need to demodulation at receiver. In this paper we analysed relationships between the AGC loop and preamble detector. we present an AGC loop and preamble detector in burst mode.
Keywords
VOL Mode-2; D8PSK; Burst Mode AGe Loop; Preamble Detection; VGA;
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