The approach can be taken further by also measuring the strength of each reply pulse and using that as a discriminate as well.
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The aircraft interrogator locks on to the DME ground station once it recognizes a particular reply pulse sequence has the same spacing as the original interrogation sequence.
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By controlling the strength of the reply pulse, the program mimics a neuron conduction channel, and the neuron reacts as if it were communicating with another neuron, not a computer.
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Lincoln Laboratory exploited the availability of a separate bearing measurement on each reply pulse to overcome some of the problems of garble whereby two replies overlap making associating the pulses with the two replies.
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The DME receiver in the aircraft searches for reply pulse-pairs ( X-mode = 12 microsecond spacing ) with the correct interval and reply pattern to its original interrogation pattern . ( Pulse-pairs that are not coincident with the individual aircraft's interrogation pattern e . g . not synchronous, are referred to as filler pulse-pairs, or squitter.