An Investigation of Aircraft Tracking through Space-based ADS-B Receiver

Nowadays space-based Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B) is widely developed with various methods to improve the quality of ADS-B. The method that can be used to design a space-based ADS-B receiver is creating a system-level simulator. The system-level simulator can be used to investigate performance of the system with scenarios that have been made. This paper presents a modeling of the ADS-B signal receiver system from an aircraft with a Low Earth Orbit (LEO) Satellite. In this model, the position of the aircraft is randomly scattered within the range of the satellite's coverage at an altitude of 5 km - 15 km above the ground level. The satellite's antenna used in this simulation has a 90-degree beamwidth with 5 dBi of maximum gain on the main lobe. The lowest BER value obtained from the aircraft is 1x10
^-8
, located at the satellite nadir and the highest value obtained from the aircraft is 1x10
^-6
, located at the farthest distance from the satellite.