Thermal noise performance analysis for dual binary phase‐shift keying tracking of standard BOC signals

Abstract

Among the existing binary offset carrier (BOC) signal receiving technologies, the dual binary phase-shift keying tracking (DBT), originally designed for alternate BOC (AltBOC) modulated Galileo E5 signal and then extended to standard BOC signals, has its unique characteristics. It incorporates both single-band and dual-band processing schemes into a unified and simple structure to meet both requirements of improving ranging precision and anti-jamming. However, in this study, the authors propose that it is problematic to directly extend the DBT technique from the AltBOC signal to the standard BOC signal. The root cause of this problem lies in the fact that the cross-correlation functions between the received standard BOC signal and the local replicas in the upper and lower sidebands are not an ideal correlation triangle as the AltBOC case, but with some ripples. This leads to more complex behaviours when the DBT technique is applied to standard BOC signals. The rigorous theoretical analysis of this technique is given in respect of thermal noise performance in this study, which can be used not only to optimise the tracking loop parameters of DBT but also to compare the tracking performance of DBT and other tracking technologies.