Space-Time Coded ARTM CPM for Aeronautical Telemetry

This paper shows that burst-based orthogonal spacetime block-coded ARTM CPM is capable of solving the two-antenna problem in aeronautical telemetry, but detection requires a prohibitively complex trellis detector. In single-input, single-output (SISO) applications, pulse truncation and state-space partitioning reduce the computational complexity of the trellis detector with only modest bit error rate (BER) performance penalties. In this paper it is shown that layering pulse truncation and state-space partition complexity-reducing techniques with a burst-based orthogonal space-time block-code does not introduce additional BER performance losses relative to the SISO case.