An Unambiguous Deterministic Compressed Acquisition Technique for BOC Signal

Abstract

The long PN code in a Binary Offset Carrier (BOC) modulated signal has a higher rate than the GPS C/A code, which makes the acquisition process in the new global navigation satellite system (GNSS) much more complex. To achieve a fast acquisition of the GNSS signal with a reduced number of correlators and low computational complexity, a two-stage deterministic compressed (DS) GNSS acquisition technique has been proposed. Nevertheless, the ambiguous threat of BOC signal isn’t taken into account in the DS technique. To eliminate the ambiguity threat in the acquisition process of BOC (m, n) signal, an unambiguous deterministic compressed acquisition is proposed in this paper. The main idea of the proposed technique is to introduce a simplified GRASS algorithm in the second stage measurement. Theoretical analysis and simulation results show that, at the expense of some performance degradation the proposed technique can completely remove the undesired positive side peaks of BOC (m, n) signal, and reduce the chance of false peak acquisition compared with the DS technique.