Performance analysis of MBOC, AltBOC and BOC modulations in terms of multipath effects on the carrier tracking loop within GNSS receivers Export

@proceedings{citeulike:5888475, abstract = {The objective of the work is the evaluation of the impact of new modulation strategies foreseen for the galileo signal in space (SIS) on the carrier tracking operation within the global navigation satellite systems (GNSS) receiver (namely frequency locked loop (FLL)/phase locked loop (PLL)) in presence of multipath. Although multipath has more relevant effects in term of measurement errors on the code tracking, its consequences on the carrier tracking can not be neglected in high accuracy applications that rely on the carrier phase measurement such as, for example, real time kinematics (RTK) survey. Particular attention is addressed to the multiplexed binary offset carrier (MBOC) signals and the alternate BOC (AltBOC) signals. The investigation is conducted considering a two ray model with the aim of producing an error diagram showing the multipath effect in the carrier tracking: the delay locked loop (DLL) PLL interaction is considered in a static - low dynamic environment. Closed loop simulations are conducted by means of specific software tools based on the GNSS fully software receiver developed by the NavSAS group. Performance verification is done for a noisy environment. Results show loops performance in a multipath affected environment and the effects of noise in the carrier tracking operations. The PLL performance evaluation under multipath conditions, considering as input MBOC and AltBOC modulated signals, is important to understand the behavior of the new modulations especially in case of carrier tracking based applications that are the more demanding in terms of final positioning performance (i.e. geodetic applications).}, author = {Fantino, M. and Marucco, G. and Mulassano, P. and Pini, M.}, citeulike-article-id = {5888475}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/PLANS.2008.4570092}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?arnumber=4570092}, day = {03}, doi = {10.1109/PLANS.2008.4570092}, journal = {Position, Location and Navigation Symposium, 2008 IEEE/ION}, keywords = {altboc, boc, galileo, gnss, loop, mboc, multipath, receiver, tracking}, month = {September}, pages = {369--376}, posted-at = {2009-10-05 08:39:03}, priority = {2}, title = {Performance analysis of MBOC, AltBOC and BOC modulations in terms of multipath effects on the carrier tracking loop within GNSS receivers}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/PLANS.2008.4570092}, year = {2008} }

TY - CONF ID - citeulike:5888475 L3 - citeulike-article-id:5888475 N2 - The objective of the work is the evaluation of the impact of new modulation strategies foreseen for the galileo signal in space (SIS) on the carrier tracking operation within the global navigation satellite systems (GNSS) receiver (namely frequency locked loop (FLL)/phase locked loop (PLL)) in presence of multipath. Although multipath has more relevant effects in term of measurement errors on the code tracking, its consequences on the carrier tracking can not be neglected in high accuracy applications that rely on the carrier phase measurement such as, for example, real time kinematics (RTK) survey. Particular attention is addressed to the multiplexed binary offset carrier (MBOC) signals and the alternate BOC (AltBOC) signals. The investigation is conducted considering a two ray model with the aim of producing an error diagram showing the multipath effect in the carrier tracking: the delay locked loop (DLL) PLL interaction is considered in a static - low dynamic environment. Closed loop simulations are conducted by means of specific software tools based on the GNSS fully software receiver developed by the NavSAS group. Performance verification is done for a noisy environment. Results show loops performance in a multipath affected environment and the effects of noise in the carrier tracking operations. The PLL performance evaluation under multipath conditions, considering as input MBOC and AltBOC modulated signals, is important to understand the behavior of the new modulations especially in case of carrier tracking based applications that are the more demanding in terms of final positioning performance (i.e. geodetic applications). JF - Position, Location and Navigation Symposium, 2008 IEEE/ION EP - 376 TI - Performance analysis of MBOC, AltBOC and BOC modulations in terms of multipath effects on the carrier tracking loop within GNSS receivers SP - 369 KW - altboc KW - boc KW - galileo KW - gnss KW - loop KW - mboc KW - multipath KW - receiver KW - tracking AU - Fantino, M AU - Marucco, G AU - Mulassano, P AU - Pini, M PY - 2008/09/03/ UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/PLANS.2008.4570092 ER -