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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 20, 1999
Filed:
Feb. 21, 1995
Larry W Koos, Sanford, FL (US);
William M Koos, Jr, Altamonte Springs, FL (US);
Peter E Mallory, New Smyrna Beach, FL (US);
Koos Technical Services, Inc., Longwood, FL (US);
Abstract
A reduced cost, robust data communication scheme for very small aperture terminal satellite communication systems combines non-coherent frequency detection and trellis-coded, multi-frequency modulation. The data code width is associated with the size of a multiple frequency set and the selection of a given combination of frequencies for transmission during a respective baud. One portion the data is convolutionally encoded and points to an orthogonal signal set associated with frequencies of a partitioned multiple frequency set. Another portion of the data identifies the frequency combination within the group pointed to by the one portion. The combined portions encode a multi-frequency transmission waveform. At the receiver, the multi-frequency tone sequence is detected by non-coherent frequency detection. For each baud, matched filters output a most likely set of frequencies transmitted during that baud, as soft decisions to a Viterbi decoder.