A power reduction method for pilot channel of LEO satellite based on dynamic compensation

Abstract

Since the lower power requirement of code division multiple access (CDMA) than that of other multiple access, the CDMA technology is suitable to be used in low earth orbit (LEO) satellite communication system whose space power is limited due to the small size of satellite. The pilot channel of CDMA technology is very important for earth mobile station (EMS) in LEO system to recover carrier and code, but the power requirement of pilot channel is very higher than that of other channels. In this paper, a power reduction method for pilot channel is proposed. By the new method, the power of pilot channel transmitted from LEO satellite is reduced to a lower level. For improving the signal to noise ratio (SNR) of pilot channel with lower power, coherent integration is employed in EMS at the pre-processing stage. Considering the high dynamic situation of LEO satellite, the long period of time for integration will deteriorate the receiving performance of EMS, therefore, a dynamic compensation module is added to carrier tracking loop against the high dynamic. Meanwhile, the transfer function of the new tracking loop and the condition for steady-state zero error are deduced. Numerical examples are provided to demonstrate effectiveness of the proposed approach.