AltBOC navigation signal quality assessment and measurement

In order to ensure that Chinese BeiDou satellite navigation system runs smoothly,the assessment of signal quality has become a significant task.Alternative binary offset carrier(AltBOC)is BeiDou B2 frequency signal.The acquisition of BeiDou signal is processed in off-line mode and the evaluation is performed by taking signal power spectrum,eye diagram,constellation,correlation,loss and s-curve deviation on AltBOC as signal quality evaluation parameters.The results illustrate that the new system signal,namely AltBOC signal,has the best performance in code tracking precision,anti-jamming and anti-multipath.

A double sideband combined tracking method for Galileo E5 AltBOC signals

The Galileo navigation satellite system(Galileo)E5 Alternative Binary Offset Carrier(AltBOC)signal brings various challenges due to its complex modulation,wide bandwidth,and multi-peaked auto-correlation function.While wideband tracking needs to solve the ambiguity problem and design dedicated baseband channels,the single-sideband cannot have the outstanding performance of the AltBOC signal.We propose a new tracking method called“Double Sideband Combined Tracking”(DSCT),which can fully exploit the AltBOC signal’s code tracking accuracy without ambiguity and ensure compatibility with Binary Phase Shift Keying(BPSK)processing channels,easily implemented in hardware.The DSCT employs one phase locked loop and one delay locked loop to track the carrier and code,respectively.The double-sideband correlation results used by the two loops are recovered by coherently combining the singlesideband correlation results of the two BPSK channels.Meanwhile,the combined model,the loop discriminator,and the ambiguity detection of the DSCT are discussed.Furthermore,the code tracking error caused by thermal noise is modeled and analyzed.The test results based on real Galileo E5 signals show that the DSCT exhibits better or comparable code tracking accuracy to the AltBOC wideband tracking method.When the loop falsely locks onto a sidepeak,the DSCT can quickly detect and re-lock on the main peak.