The Interplanetary Network Progress Report

Volume 42-156

Joseph H. Yuen
Editor in Chief


February 15, 2004

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National Aeronautics and
Space Administration

Jet Propulsion Laboratory
California Institute of Technology
Pasadena, California


Contents

Preface

Preliminary Image Compression Results from the Mars Exploration Rovers
A. Kiely and M. Klimesh

Concatenation of Hamming Codes and Accumulator Codes with High-Order Modulations for High-Speed Decoding
D. Divsalar and S. Dolinar

Performance of a Coded Non-Square Quadrature Amplitude Modulation Scheme over Fading Channels
L. Li, D. Divsalar, and S. Dolinar

Performance of Coded Offset Quadrature Phase-Shift Keying (OQPSK) and MIL-STD Shaped OQPSK (SOQPSK) with Iterative Decoding
L. Li and M. K. Simon

Conceptual Design of an Optical Array Receiver, with Preliminary Experimental Results
V. Vilnrotter, K. Andrews, C. Lau, and M. Srinivasan

A Multi-Tiered Safety System for Free-Space Laser Transmission from the Optical Communications Telescope Laboratory
J. P. Wu

Distributed Network Scheduling
B. J. Clement and S. R. Schaffer

Hard Horn Design for Quasi-Optical Power Combining Using Solid-State Power Amplifiers
W. S. Pickens, L. W. Epp, and D. J. Hoppe

Development of the Advanced Deep Space Transponder
B. Cook, M. Dennis, S. Kayalar, J. Lux, and N. Mysoor


The research described in this publication was carried out by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, under a contract with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Reference herein to any specific commercial product, service, process, or service by trade name, trademark, manufacturer, or otherwise, does not constitute or imply its endorsement by the United States Government or the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology.


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