Acm System Description; Table 7-3. Turning Margin Into Additional Capacity - Comtech EF Data CDM-750 Installation And Operation Manual

CDM-750 Advanced High-Speed Trunking Modem
Adaptive Coding and Modulation (ACM) Option
operation provides a higher than contracted level of throughput. Later, a 2.2 dB fade occurs and
the ModCod is adjusted to preserve data integrity, causing an adjustment of the data rate to 51
Mbps, which is substantially above the SLA of 25 Mbps. Still later, the link recovers to 64 Mbps,
followed by a deep fade of 6.9 dB that throttles throughput down to 31 Mbps. Table 7-3
summarizes the capacity:
Parameter
Data Rate
ModCod
7.3

ACM System Description

A generic example of ACM-over-Satellite is shown in Figure 7-3. There are a number of essential
requirements to enable this scheme:
a) A near side modulator and FEC encoder that can instantaneously, when commanded,
change either modulation type, FEC encoder rate or both. This needs to be accomplished
without the corruption of data anywhere in the path. The ModCod must remain fixed
throughout an entire frame and may change to any other ModCod on the next frame.
b) The near side modulator is required to send the value of ModCod at the start of each
frame to inform the far side demodulator/decoder how to configure for the correct
ModCod.
c) A far side demodulator/decoder must be capable of demodulating and decoding the signal
transmitted by the near side modulator without any prior knowledge of when a change
has taken place, based purely on the value of ModCod seen at the start of each Frame.
Again, this needs to be accomplished without the corruption of data anywhere in the path.
d) The far side receiver needs to derive an estimate of the link quality, the received Es/No, and
then communicate this estimate, via a return channel, back to the near side modulator.
e) The near side modulator needs to process the link quality metric from the far side
demodulator and, based upon a pre-determined algorithm, adapt the data rate and change
the ModCod sent to the far side receiver. This closes the loop and maximizes the data rate
for the current link conditions.

Table 7-3. Turning Margin into Additional Capacity

SLA
25 Mbps
QPSK 3/5
Clear 2.2 dB Fade
64 Mbps 51 Mbps
16-APSK 5/6 16-APSK 2/3
7–5
Revision 1
MN-CDM750
6.9 dB Fade
31 Mbps
QPSK 4/5