High-speed transmission technology is required to provide various services through Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellites. The Consultative Committee for Space Data System (CCSDS) recommends the four Dimension 8-ary Phase Shift Keying Trellis Coded Modulation (4D-8PSK-TCM) system for high-speed transmission of large amounts of data in the X-band. In this paper, we build the 4D-8PSK-TCM system with transmission efficiency of 2.0 bits/channel-symbol using MATLAB Simulink. The performance is evaluated in terms of the Bit Error Rate (BER) and throughput over time through network-level simulator using Riverbed Modeler. The results show that there is no difference between the throughput of 4D-8PSK-TCM and that of other schemes in the X-band regardless of the simulation time. However, the 4D-8PSK-TCM has an advantage of the BER.
This work was supported in part by Basic Science Research Program through the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) funded by the Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning (NRF-2017M1A3A4A01037205).