Time Series Generators to Simulate Earth Satellite Links Affected by Scintillations

The earth satellite links may in some cases be affected by signal scintillations due to the propagation through ionosphere and more precisely due to the occurrence of electron density bubbles inside the ionosphere. These signal scintillations affect the navigation systems performance. In order to assess the receiver capabilities to operate in such an environment it is of interest to generate signals exhibiting the same random characteristics for testing receivers testing. The algorithm allowing creating such a signal is the object of this paper. (4 pages)