Autonomous Software–Defined Radio Receivers for Deep Space Applications

Full coverage of the techniques needed to implement an autonomous software–defined radio system This book introduces the reader to the concept of an autonomous software–defined radio (SDR) receiver, which automatically recognizes attributes of an incoming signal and reconfigures itself to receive it. This is in contrast to conventional software–defined radios, which are reconfigurable but not autonomous. The book explores the challenges of such automatic reconfiguration, and explains the design and development of algorithms that permit its successful operation. Among the topics covered are automatic identification of the carrier frequency, modulation index, data rate, modulation type, and pulse shape, based on observations of the received signal. Each distinct aspect of the design of the receiver is treated in a separate chapter written by one or more leading innovators in the field. Chapters begin with a problem statement and then offer a full mathematical derivation of...