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40th Annual PTTI Meeting 2008


Meeting Information

December 01 - 04, 2008

Hyatt Regency Hotel
1800 Presidents Street
Reston, VA 20190

Meeting Officers


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Advance Program

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Papers

Paper 1: COHERENT FREQUENCY REFERENCE GENERATION IN THE NASA DEEP SPACE NETWORK
B. Tucker, J. Lauf, J. Gonzalez, R. Hamell, W. Diener, and R. L. Tjoelker, Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Paper 3: THE MASTER CLOCK BUILDING AT USNO INFRASTRUCTURE
Warren F. Walls, U.S. Naval Observatory

Paper 4: HISTORY AND PERFORMANCE OF FEI SPACE-CLASS OSCILLATORS
M. Bloch, O. Mancini, and T. McClelland, Frequency Electronics, Inc.

Paper 5: ULTRASTABLE OSCILLATORS FOR SPACE APPLICATIONS
Peter Cash, Don Emmons, and Johan Welgemoed, Symmetricom, Inc.

Paper 6: ENHANCING THE ART OF SPACE OPERATIONS - PROGRESS IN JHU/APL ULTRA-STABLE OSCILLATOR CAPABILITIES
Gregory Weaver, Matthew Reinhart, and Robert Wallis, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory

Paper 7: IN-ORBIT PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT OF GIOVE CLOCKS
Pierre Waller, F. Gonzalez, J. Hahn, and S. Binda, European Space Agency - ESTEC
R. Piriz, I. Hidalgo, G. Tobias, GMV
I. Sesia, P. Tavella, and G. Cerretto, INRiM

Paper 8: STANDARDIZING SPACE OVENIZED CRYSTAL OSCILLATORS FOR LOWER COST AND FASTER DELIVERY
Jay Humphrey, Liz Ronchetti, and John Richardson, Wenzel Associates, Inc.

Paper 9: TIME TRANSFER BY LASER LINK - T2L2: AN OPPORTUNITY TO CALIBRATE RF LINKS
Philippe Guillemot, CNES - French Space Agency, Toulouse, France
Etienne Samain, Patrick Vrancken, Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur, Caussol, France

Paper 10: PHASE TRANSFER FOR RADIO ASTRONOMY INTERFEROMETERS, OVER INSTALLED FIBER NETWORKS, USING A ROUND-TRIP CORRECTION SYSTEM
R. McCool, The University of Manchester, Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics
M. Bentley, S. Garrington, R. Spencer, R. Davis, and B. Anderson, Jodrell Bank Observatory

Paper 11: EVALUATION OF OUTPUT PHASE STABILITY IN A FIBER-OPTIC TWO-WAY FREQUENCY DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM
Sven-Christian Ebenhag, Per Olof Hedekvist, Carsten Rieck, Håkan Skoogh, Per Jarlemark, and Kenneth Jaldehag, SP Technical Research Institute of Sweden

Paper 12: DEVELOPMENT OF FREQUENCY TRANSFER VIA OPTICAL FIBER LINK AT NICT
Motohiro Kumagai, Miho Fujieda, Tadahiro Gotoh, and Mizuhiko Hosokawa, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology,

Paper 13: RECENT PROGRESS IN SILICON MEMS OSCILLATORS
Wan-Thai Hsu, Discera, Inc.

Paper 15: TOWARDS AN INTEGRATED OPTIC PHASE-LOCKED OSCILLATOR
Michael R. Watts, Anthony L. Lentine, and William A. Zortman, Applied Photonic Microsystems, Sandia National Labs
Jungwon Kim and Franz X. Kaertner, Research Laboratory of Electronics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Paper 16: PROGRESS ON A PORTABLE RUBIDIUM FOUNTAIN FREQUENCY STANDARD
P. D. Kunz, T. P. Heavner, and S. R. Jefferts, National Institute of Standards and Technology

Paper 17: STUDYING NETWORK TIMING WITH PRECISION PACKET DELAY MEASUREMENTS
Lee Cosart, R&D, Symmetricom, Inc.

Paper 18: NEXT STEPS IN NETWORK TIME SYNCHRONIZATION FOR NAVY SHIPBOARD APPLICATIONS
Karen O'Donoghue, Mark Glass, and Timothy Plunkett, NAVSEA Surface Warfare Center, Dahlgren Division

Paper 20: SYNCHRONIZATION IN PACKET NETWORKS: TIMING METRICS AND MONITORING
Charles Barry and Srinivas Bangalore, Brilliant Telecommunications

Paper 23: STEERING A TIME SCALE
Judah Levine, National Institute of Standards and Technology

Paper 24: ESTIMATING UTC - UTC (APL) AT THE JHU APPLIED PHYSICS LABORATORY
Mihran Miranian, Gregory L. Weaver, and Matthew J. Reinhart, JHU/Applied Physics Laboratory

Paper 26: A PROTOTYPE CESIUM CLOCK ENSEMBLE FOR THE LORAN-C RADIONAVIGATION SYSTEM
LTjg. Aaron P. Dahlen, United States Coast Guard, Loran Support Unit

Paper 27: FREQUENCY JUMP DETECTION AND ANALYSIS
W. J. Riley, Hamilton Technical Services

Paper 29: THE GPS TOOLKIT: OPEN SOURCE CLOCK TOOLS
Timothy J. H. Craddock, Richard John Broderick, Colin P. Petersen, and Alex Hu, Applied Research Laboratories: The University of Texas at Austin

Paper 30: SEPARATING THE VARIANCES OF A TWO-COMPONENT CLOCK MODEL BY SEQUENTIAL MINQUE
Charles Greenhall, Jet Propulsion Laboratory (CIT)

Paper 31: USING SIGN PATTERNS TO DISTINGUISH FEARED CLOCK EVENTS
Matthias Suess and Ulrich Grunert, German Aerospace Centre (DLR)

Paper 32: GPS CHANGES BEFORE AND AFTER IMPLEMENTATION OF THE ARCHITECTURE EVOLUTION PLAN
M. A. Weiss and A. Masarie, Time and Frequency Division, NIST

Paper 33: AF/NGA GPS MONITOR STATION HIGH-PERFORMANCE CESIUM FREQUENCY STANDARD STABILITY 2007/2008: FROM NGA KALMAN FILTER CLOCK ESTIMATES
Dennis M. Manning, National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
Colin P. Petersen, Applied Research Laboratories: The University of Texas at Austin

Paper 34: GPS RECEIVER PERFORMANCE TEST AT ROA
Hector Esteban, Juan Palacio, Francisco Javier Galindo, and Jorge Garate, Real Instituto y Observatorio de la Armada

Paper 35: ESTIMATION AND PREDICTION OF THE GIOVE CLOCKS
Irene Hidalgo, R. Píriz, A. Mozo, and G. Tobias, GMV, Madrid, Spain
P. Tavella, I. Sesia, and G. Cerretto, Istituto Nazionale di Ricerca Metrologica (INRiM), Torino, Italy
P. Waller, F. González, and J. Hahn, Galileo Project Office, European Space Agency/ESTEC

Paper 36: REMOTE SYNCHRONIZATION EXPERIMENTS FOR FUTURE QUASI-ZENITH SATELLITE SYSTEM USING CURRENT GEOSTATIONARY SATELLITES
Toshiaki Iwata, Tomonari Suzuyama, Michito Imae, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST)
Yuji Hashibe, Space Engineering Development Co., Ltd., Japan
Masato Fukui, University of Tokyo, Japan

Paper 37: INFLUENCE OF IONOSPHERE PERTURBATIONS IN GPS TIME AND FREQUENCY TRANSFER
Sophie Pireaux, Pascale Defraigne, Nicolas Bergeot, Quentin Baire, and Carine Bruyninx, Royal Observatory of Belgium

Paper 38: GPS CARRIER-PHASE TIME AND FREQUENCY TRANSFER WITH DIFFERENT VERSIONS OF PRECISE POINT POSITIONING SOFTWARE
T. Feldmann, D. Piester, A. Bauch, Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB)
T. Gotoh, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT)

Paper 39: ADVANCES IN TIME AND FREQUENCY TRANSFER FROM DUAL-FREQUENCY GPS PSEUDORANGE AND CARRIER-PHASE OBSERVATIONS
François Lahaye, Paul Collins, Geodetic Survey Division, Natural Resources Canada (NRCan)
Giancarlo Cerretto and Patrizia Tavella, Istituto Nazionale di Ricerca Metrologica (iNRiM)

Paper 40: REMOTE FREQUENCY CALIBRATION USING GPS CARRIER-PHASE OBSERVATION MEASUREMENT AT TL
Po-Cheng Chang, Shinn-Yan Lin, and Chia-Shu Liao, National Standard Time & Frequency Lab., TL, Taiwan

Paper 41: STATISTICAL CONSTRAINTS ON STATION CLOCK PARAMETERS IN THE NRCAN PPP ESTIMATION PROCESS
Giancarlo Cerretto, Patrizia Tavella, Istituto Nazionale di Ricerca Metrologica (INRiM) François Lahaye, Paul Collins, Geodetic Survey Division, Natural Resources Canada (NRCan)

Paper 42: TWO-WAY TIME TRANSFER WITH DUAL PSEUDO-RANDOM NOISE CODES
Tadahiro Gotoh and Jun Amagai, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology

Paper 43: GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM TIMING CRITICALITY ASSESSMENT - PRELIMINARY PERFORMANCE RESULTS
Dr. James Carroll, John A. Volpe National Transportation Systems Center
Mr. Kirk Montgomery, Symmetricom, Inc.

Paper 44: PTTI CAPABILITIES OF THE MODERNIZED LORAN SYSTEM
Mr. Kirk Montgomery, Symmetricom, Inc.
Michael A. Lombardi, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)

Paper 45: LOCKING A RUBIDIUM OSCILLATOR TO A REMOTE TIME SCALE USING REAL-TIME COMMON-VIEW GPS MEASUREMENTS
Michael A. Lombardi, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) LTjg. Aaron P. Dahlen, Loran Support Unit, United States Coast Guard (USCG)

Paper 46: CALIBRATION OF THE BEV GPS RECEIVER BY USING TWSTFT
A. Niessner, W. Mache, Bundesamt für Eich- und Vermessungswesen, Vienna, Austria
B. Blanzano, O. Koudelka, Joanneum Research Forschungsgesellschaft m.b.H., Graz, Austria
J. Becker, D. Piester, Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt, Braunschweig, Germany
Z. Jiang, and F. Arias, Bureau International des Poids et Mesures, Sèvres, France

Paper 47: TIME TRANSFER FROM COMBINED ANALYSIS OF GPS AND TWSTFT DATA
Pascale Defraigne, Royal Observatory of Belgium (ROB)
M. Carmen Martínez, University of Alicante, Spain
Z. Jiang, Bureau International des Poids et Mesures, France

Paper 48: CALIBRATING GPS WITH TWSTFT FOR ACCURATE TIME TRANSFER
Z. Jiang, Bureau International des Poids et Mesures (BIPM)
A. Niessner, Bundesamt für Eich-und Vermessungswesen, Vienna, Austria

Paper 50: TWO-WAY SATELLITE TIME AND FREQUENCY TRANSFER (TWSTFT) CALIBRATION CONSTANCY FROM CLOSURE SUMS
Demetrios Matsakis, Lee Breakiron, U.S. Naval Observatory
Andreas Bauch, Dirk Piester, Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt, Braunschweig, Germany
Zhiheng Jiang, Bureau International des Poids et Mesures, Paris, France


Posters

Poster 1: PHASE NOISE MODEL FOR AN ARRAY OF COMBINED SOURCES USING DIRECT DIGITAL SYNTHESIS (DDS) (student paper)
Thomas M. Comberiate, J. P. Van't Hof, Laura B. Ruppalt, Keir C. Lauritzen, and Salvador H. Talisa, JHU/Applied Physics Laboratory

Poster 2: RESIDUAL VIBRATION-INDUCED PM NOISE OF A RIGID OPTICAL FIBER SPOOL (student paper)
J. Taylor, C. Nelson, A. Hati, N. Ashby, and D. Howe, National Institute of Standards and Technology

Poster 3: HARDWARE EXPERIMENTS OF RESSOX WITH GROUND STATION EQUIPMENT (student paper)
Masato Fukui, Akira Iwasaki, University of Tokyo, Japan
Toshiaki Iwata and Takashi Matsuzawa, Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Japan

Poster 5: TIME AND FREQUENCY ACTIVITIES AT THE U.S. NAVAL OBSERVATORY
Demetrios Matsakis, U.S. Naval Observatory

Poster 7: TIME AND FREQUENCY TRANSFER ACTIVITIES AT NIST
Victor Zhang and Michael A. Lombardi, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)

Poster 9: TIMING ACTIVITIES AT INRIM IN THE FRAME OF THE GALILEO PROJECT
I. Sesia, G. Cerretto, and P. Tavella, Istituto Nazionale di Ricerca Metrologica (INRiM), Torino, Italy

Poster 10: TIME ACTIVITIES AT THE BIPM
E. F. Arias and G. Panfilo, Bureau International des Poids et Mesures

Poster 13: TIME AND FREQUENCY ACTIVITIES AT THE JHU APPLIED PHYSICS LABORATORY
Mihran Miranian, Gregory L. Weaver, Matthew J. Reinhart, and Richard A.Dragonette, Johns Hopkins University/Applied Physics Laboratory

Poster 14: IMPROVEMENT OF THE TIME SCALE OF NPLI
Suman Sharma, P. Banerjee, and Arundhati Chaterjee, National Physical Laboratory

Poster 20: CALIBRATION OF TWSTFT LINKS THROUGH THE TRIANGLE CLOSURE CONDITION
Z. Jiang, W. Lewandowski, Bureau International des Poids et Mesures (BIPM)
D. Piester, Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB)

Poster 21: NOVEL TILTMETER FOR MONITORING ANGLE SHIFT IN INCIDENT WAVES
S. Taghavi-Larigani and J. VanZyl, Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Poster 22: DATABASE FOR TA (PL) AND UTC (PL)
M. Marszalec and D. Nerkowski, National Institute of Telecommunications (NIT), Warsaw, Poland
A. Czubla, Central Office of Measures (GUM), Warsaw, Poland


Past Meetings >> PTTI 2008