METEOR BURST COMMUNICATION

BY AJAI KRISHNA.V 1MV08EC005

CONTENT S
What are meteoroids ? Role of Meteor trials in communication Procedure of Meteor Burst Communication Advantages Disadvantages Developments and its Technological Breakthroughs

What are Meteoroids???

Meteoroids are small sand

like particles of debris in the solar system.

These particles orbit

around the sun and coincide with the earths orbit.

Thousands enter the atmosphere with a very high velocity and get vaporized into ions

Role of Meteor Trails in communication

Meteor trails are created

due to friction when meteoroids enter earths atmosphere. Trail of positive-charged ions and free electrons are left behind which last for a short duration of time.

 Meteor trails redirect the radio waves using

overdense trail and underdense trail.

Overdense trails contain free electron density

great enough to reflect wave back to the earth much like a light reflecting from a mirror. Occur rarely.

Underdense trails allow penetration of the waves

and electrons act like small dipole antennas and reflect the wave back . Occur frequently.

 Occurrence of number of meteor trails depend on

the time of day and month of the year.

Early Morning have more number of trails than evening.

MBC have more effect from July to September Trail length is anywhere between 10 to 20 miles long and with average radius of about 1 meter at head of the trail.

Meteor rate against Time and Month

Procedure of Meteor Burst Communication

Frequency of range between 20 and 120 MHz. Transmissions can be either simplex , half duplex or

full duplex.

 Master Station transmits a probe which the remote

receiver station tuned to same frequency. Probe bounces against meteor trails until suitable path exists for transmission. Receiver sends acknowledgement with same

 The period of searching between usable trails is

known as wait time.

Wait times vary in proportion to the usable time of

the trial.

 Use of Forward Error Correction (FEC) and Automatic

Repeat Request (ARQ) is responsible for data transmission when no suitable path exists. Data rates range between 75 to 100 words per minute if it is unencrypted. Upto 15 words per minute if encrypted.

Useful for low volume users who depend on

accurate data.

ADVANTAGES
Independent of Satellites for systems which

depend on satellite for communication.

Communication between two stations unlikely to

be compromised.

 MBC is advantageous

over High Frequency systems.

MBC equipment is light

and durable and manpack is deployable.

MBC has the ability to

survive a nuclear war when satellites and ground stations are off high priority targets.

DISADVANTAGES

Low Data Rate where large data cant be sent in a

short span of time.

Short distance coverage of 1200 miles max.

It is incompatible to voice signal .

DEVELOPMENTS AND TECHNOLOGICAL BREAKTHROUGHS

The first ever MBC system was JANET y a canadian

system in 1954. ARQ was not used and had 0.1 to 4 percent error rate.

In 1965 ,NATO developed MBC system which used

ARQ and error rates reduced dramatically.

In 1970s AMBCS (Alaskan Meteor Burst

Communications Systems) was used by some government agencies where it was of great use due to the fact that MBC did not experience the auroral interference common to high frequency communications.

 IA Research Corporation, an american company

developed a VHF converter which converts VHF radio to an MBC terminal.

An equipment that allows Adaptive Signaling Rates

senses SNR and sets the signal rate accordingly, which in turn allows transmission of larger volumes of data.

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