Abstract
With the continuous construction and improvement of global navigation satellite systems (GNSSs), the number of navigation signals broadcast by GNSSs has increased significantly, and the spectrum resources are becoming increasingly scarce. In order to solve the contradiction between limited spectrum resources and the growing demand for positioning, navigation and timing services, some scholars have proposed a multicarrier modulation scheme which multiplexes narrow-band signals in several adjacent spectrum slots into a composite wide-band signal. On the one hand, multicarrier modulation signals can make full use of the spectrum resources, and on the other hand such signals can provide diversified processing strategies. Based on the idea of cognitive receivers and the inherent characteristics of multicarrier signals, we propose two different unambiguous tracking techniques named energy aggregation method and multi-dimensional loop tracking method respectively. In the first method, the energy of different signal components is aggregated, which can improve the positioning performance while maintaining the unimodal characteristic of the correlation function. In the second method, the potential high-precision ranging performance of high-frequency subcarriers in the multicarrier signal is further exploited. By introducing additional subcarrier loop, the one-dimensional correlation function is extended to two-dimensional. In the dimension of subcarrier, the correlation function is sharper and still has the characteristic of multiple correlation peaks, but in the dimension of pseudo-random noise (PRN) code, the correlation function presents the unimodal characteristic, so it can assist the subcarrier loop to eliminate ambiguity. The proposed tracking methods can be embedded in the architecture of cognitive receivers, where GNSS receivers can flexibly configure the receiving parameters according to the internal and external environment, and select proper receiving strategy. For example, in scenarios where the requirement in positioning precision is moderate, the system could select single-component receiving and processing strategy. In scenarios with high requirement for positioning performance, the system will choose multicomponent receiving mode. Simulation results show that in the above two methods, multicomponent wideband reception can improve the ranging accuracy successfully. Besides, the ranging accuracy of the second method is much better than that of the first method.
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
References
Yao, Z., Ma, J., Zhang, J., Lu, M.: Multicarrier constant envelope composite signal – a solution to the next generation satellite navigation signals. In: Proceedings of the 30th International Technical Meeting of the Satellite Division of The Institute of Navigation (ION GNSS+ 2017), Portland, Oregon, September 2017, pp. 1520–1533 (2017)
Yao, Z., Guo, F., Ma, J., Lu, M.: Orthogonality-based generalized multicarrier constant envelope multiplexing for DSSS signals. IEEE Trans. Aerosp. Electron. Syst. 53(4), 1685–1698 (2017)
Betz, J.W.: Signal structures for satellite-based navigation: past, present, and future. In: Proceedings of the ION 2013 Pacific PNT Meeting, Honolulu, Hawaii, April 2013, pp. 131–137 (2013)
Shivaramaiah, N.C., Dempster, A.G.: Cognitive GNSS receiver design: concepts and challenges. In: Proceedings of the 24th International Technical Meeting of the Satellite Division of The Institute of Navigation (ION GNSS 2011), Portland, OR, September 2011, pp. 2782–2789 (2011)
Fine, P., Wilson, W.: Tracking algorithm for GPS offset carrier signals. In: Proceedings of the 1999 National Technical Meeting of The Institute of Navigation, San Diego, CA, January 1999, pp. 671–676 (1999)
Julien, O., Macabiau, C., Cannon, M., Lachapelle, G.: ASPeCT: Unambiguous sine-BOC(n, n) acquisition/tracking technique for navigation applications. IEEE Trans. Aerosp. Electron. Syst. 43(1), 150–162 (2007)
Hodgart, M.S., Blunt, P.D.: Dual estimate receiver of binary offset carrier modulated signals for global navigation satellite systems. Electron. Lett. 43(16), 877–878 (2007)
Acknowledgment
This research was supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 61771272), and Young Innovation Foundation of Beijing National Research Center for Information Science and Technology (Grant No. BNR2021RC01015).
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Corresponding author
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2021 The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd.
About this paper
Cite this paper
Ma, J., Yao, Z., Lu, M. (2021). Unambiguous Tracking Technique for Multicarrier Modulation Signals in the Framework of Cognitive Receivers. In: Yang, C., Xie, J. (eds) China Satellite Navigation Conference (CSNC 2021) Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol 774. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-3146-7_37
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-3146-7_37
Published:
Publisher Name: Springer, Singapore
Print ISBN: 978-981-16-3145-0
Online ISBN: 978-981-16-3146-7
eBook Packages: EngineeringEngineering (R0)