High-Sensitivity Acquisition of Ultrahigh Dynamic Direct Sequence Spread Spectrum Signals in Space Communications

According to the requirements of the high-sensitivity acquisition of Direct Sequence Spread Spectrum(DSSS) signals under ultrahigh dynamic environments in space communications, a three-dimensional joint search of the phase of Pseudo-Noise-code(PN-code),Doppler frequency and its rate-of-change is presented to achieve high sensitivity in sensing high-frequency dynamics. By eliminating the correlation peak loss caused by ultrahigh Doppler frequency and its rate-of-change offset,the proposed method improves the acquisition sensitivity by increasing the non-coherent accumulation time. The validity of the algorithm is proved by theoretical analysis and simulation results. It is shown that signals with a carrier- to-noise ratio as low as 39 dBHz can be captured with high performance when the Doppler frequency is up to ±1 MHz and its rate-of-change is up to ±200 kHz/s.

一种窄波束信号的快速捕获方法

为了适应飞行器不断提高的作用距离和越来越大的动态,采用Ka频段进行飞行器测控是未来的发展方向,但是Ka频段在提供增益的同时增加了信号的捕获难度。针对Ka频段天线波束窄和目标动态大的问题,设计出了一种空间信号快速搜索方法和低信噪比下信号多普勒频率捕获方法。给出了空间目标搜索和多普勒频率捕获的理论分析,并进行了模型仿真。仿真结果表明该方法可以在Eb/N0=0 dB时完成空间目标搜索和多普勒频率快速捕获。