Abstract: A satellite system is configured to receive and allow direct forwarding of traffic on a time slot by time slot basis without demodulation or decoding. The satellite system may be configured to receive waveforms and configured to separate a waveform of data from a waveform of control information. The satellite system may be configured to switch the waveform of data toward one or more terminals and configured to switch the waveform of control information toward a satellite control unit without demodulation or decoding of the waveforms. A method for satellite communication is also provided.

Abstract: A method for waveform-enabled jammer excision (WEJE) may include performing a jammer measurement during a look-through window when no signal-of-interest (SOI) is present and obtaining a jammer signal. A SOI-plus-jammer measurement may be performed and a SOI-plus-Jammer signal may be obtained when both the jammer signal and the SOI are present. Optimal weights that maximize a SOI-to-jammer power ratio may be determined. SOI-plus-jammer signals from a number of antenna elements may be optimally weighted and combined to copy the SOI and null the jammer signal based on the determined optimal weights.

Abstract: A satellite system is configured to receive and allow direct forwarding of traffic on a time slot by time slot basis without demodulation or decoding. The satellite system may be configured to receive waveforms and configured to separate a waveform of data from a waveform of control information. The satellite system may be configured to switch the waveform of data toward one or more terminals and configured to switch the waveform of control information toward a satellite control unit without demodulation or decoding of the waveforms. A method for satellite communication is also provided.

Abstract: A method for waveform-enabled jammer excision (WEJE) may include performing a jammer measurement during a look-through window when no signal-of-interest (SOI) is present and obtaining a jammer signal. A SOI-plus-jammer measurement may be performed and a SOI-plus-Jammer signal may be obtained when both the jammer signal and the SOI are present. Optimal weights that maximize a SOI-to-jammer power ratio may be determined. SOI-plus-jammer signals from a number of antenna elements may be optimally weighted and combined to copy the SOI and null the jammer signal based on the determined optimal weights.

Abstract: Disclosed are a self-forming ad-hoc network architecture and triplet-based radio waveform for communicating via the network architecture. The self-forming ad-hoc network preferably has a plurality of network nodes including a point-of-presence node, one or more relay nodes that aggregate data (triplet) traffic, one or more sensor nodes that send and receive data from relay nodes, and one or more handheld nodes that send and receive data to and from relay nodes and communicate data between themselves. The communication waveform is defined by orthogonal triplets having multiple time slots, multiple frequency channels, and multiple hop sequences in a channel, that is used to communicate between the network nodes.

Abstract: Disclosed are exemplary apparatus, techniques, algorithms and methods for reducing the size of time domain data with minimal distortion. In general, the exemplary techniques use a digital channelizer to convert a time series in to a set of frequency bins. Frequency bins that have a power less than a predefined threshold are converted to zero. The frequency domain data is then compressed using a compression routine. The compressed frequency domain data may be stored or transmitted. Recovery of the time domain data involves reversing the compaction process. Since the digital channelizer produces perfect reconstruction of the time signals, little distortion of the time domain signals occurs.

Abstract: Disclosed are a self-forming ad-hoc network architecture and triplet-based radio waveform for communicating via the network architecture. The self-forming ad-hoc network preferably has a plurality of network nodes including a point-of-presence node, one or more relay nodes that aggregate data (triplet) traffic, one or more sensor nodes that send and receive data from relay nodes, and one or more handheld nodes that send and receive data to and from relay nodes and communicate data between themselves. The communication waveform is defined by orthogonal triplets having multiple time slots, multiple frequency channels, and multiple hop sequences in a channel, that is used to communicate between the network nodes.

Abstract: Parallel adaptive filters and filtering methods that enable processing of an input signal in a circuit that has an clock speed many times slower than the input rate of the input signal that is processed. A polyphase decimator structure processes a data stream requiring a low pass filtered bandlimited (low-rate) output that is used for high-rate output structures. The filters and methods break an input data stream into parallel paths that efficiently produce a bandlimited (decimated, low-rate) filtered output. Each of the parallel paths is processed at a decimated rate to provide a filtered output signals corresponding to a filtered version of the input signal.

Abstract: Parallel adaptive filters and filtering methods that enable processing of an input signal in a circuit that has an clock speed many times slower than the input rate of the input signal that is processed. The present invention extends the use of a polyphase decimator structure to processes a data stream requiring a low pass filtered bandlimited (low-rate) output that is used for high-rate output structures. The filters and methods break an input data stream into parallel paths that efficiently produce a bandlimited (decimated, low-rate) filtered output.

Abstract: A navigation satellite receiver that nulls interference and enhances satellite signals using differences in their spatial positions and that includes four antennas in a spatial array respectively connected to four amplitude and phase balanced receiver downconverter channels. Five satellite tracking channels are each connected to all four receiver channels and each includes despreaders and I/Q accumulators for early, late and punctual correlation. The despreader and accumulator combinations provide four-by-one vectors called aperture estimates. A code-gated maximum likelihood processor whitens these by multiplication with the mathematical inverse Cholesky factor of the interference data. This vector is generated in a millisecond block "k" and is multiplied by a similarly generated vector formed in a previous millisecond block "k-1". The magnitude of the resulting product is used for code tracking, and the phase of the result provides for carrier tracking.

Abstract: A rawinsonde system embodiment of the present invention includes a digital GPS snapshot buffer and a serial communications controller for transmitting message frames formed of a combination of digital GPS data from the snapshot buffer and digitized hardwired meteorological data input from a humidity-temperature-pressure instrument. The message frames are telemetered at a relatively low rate over a meteorological radio band to a ground station. Substantially all of the conventional GPS digital signal processing is performed by the ground station, including carrier recovery, PRN code locking, pseudo-range extraction, ephemeris data extraction, almanac collection, satellite selection, navigation solution calculation and differential corrections. Ground processing further includes Kalman filter wind velocity calculation.