Research Article
Pointing Errors Analysis for Inter-satellite MRR PNC System
@INPROCEEDINGS{10.1007/978-3-031-96146-5_11, author={Hangfei Zhang and Audrey Christine Guo and Lu Lu and Yanmei Jia}, title={Pointing Errors Analysis for Inter-satellite MRR PNC System}, proceedings={Smart Grid and Innovative Frontiers in Telecommunications. 8th EAI International Conference, EAI SmartGIFT 2024a, Santa Clara, United States, March 23-24, 2024, Proceedings}, proceedings_a={SMARTGIFT}, year={2026}, month={9}, keywords={Modulated retro reflector Inter-satellite optical communication Micro-satellite networking Physical layer network coding}, doi={10.1007/978-3-031-96146-5_11} }- Hangfei Zhang
Audrey Christine Guo
Lu Lu
Yanmei Jia
Year: 2026
Pointing Errors Analysis for Inter-satellite MRR PNC System
SMARTGIFT
Springer
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-96146-5_11
Abstract
Large-scale networking of micro-satellites needs to meet the requirements of rapid interaction, information sharing and autonomous management, which requires low SWaP communication terminals for multi-point communication. We propose a physical layer network coding (PNC) architecture based on modulated retro-reflector (MRR) that can fulfill the new requirements in micro-satellites with symmetric channels. We evaluate performance of MRR PNC under Additive White Gaussian Noise (AWGN) channel with pointing errors. We obtain the impact of pointing error to the outage probability and bit error rate (BER) by theoretical calculation and numerical simulation. Parameters used are designed under joint constraints. Simulation results indicate the proposed scheme’s BER performance and outage probability can achieve better than level.