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Abstract
Mariner 10 (MVM’73) uses a threshold-type algorithm to acquire frame synchronization. In reviewing this scheme, the question arose as to why a threshold approach was selected over a maximum likelihood detection scheme. This paper answers that question in the context of an uncoded telemetry link over a binary symmetric channel. For a given communication link it is demonstrated that, at the expense of a variable acquisition time, a threshold scheme can simultaneously achieve a lower probability of false sync acquisition and a smaller expected acquisition time than its maximum likelihood counterpart.
Details
- Volume
- 42-25
- Published
- February 15, 1975
- Pages
- 84–87
- File Size
- 353.2 KB