As the complexity of space exploration missions augments,how to enhance the overall performance of communication,ranging or other functions has become a challengeable problem.Considering the integration of communicati...As the complexity of space exploration missions augments,how to enhance the overall performance of communication,ranging or other functions has become a challengeable problem.Considering the integration of communication and ranging,we present a bit-level composite signal for simultaneous ranging and communication.In this composite method,through a specially designed mapping scheme using low-weight codewords,the information sequence is converted to a sparse sequence which is then superimposed on the ranging code.For ranging,the correlation characteristics of the ranging code component can be maintained to calculate the transmitter-receiver distance.For communications,the sparse sequence can be extracted without interference by eliminating the ranging code component.Simulation results show that the proposed composite signal can support communication and ranging simultaneously with limited sacrifice of ranging performance,and the performance loss of ranging can be controlled and minimized by lowering the density of information sequences using different sparsification encoding methods.展开更多
A modiΡed pseudo-noise（PN） code regeneration method is proposed to improve the clock tracking accuracy without impairing the code acquisition time performance.Thus,the method can meet the requirement of high accura...A modiΡed pseudo-noise（PN） code regeneration method is proposed to improve the clock tracking accuracy without impairing the code acquisition time performance.Thus,the method can meet the requirement of high accuracy ranging measurements in short time periods demanded by radio-science missions.The tracking error variance is derived by linear analysis.For some existing PN codes,which can be acquired rapidly,the tracking error variance performance of the proposed method is about 2.6 dB better than that of the JPL scheme（originally proposed by Jet Propulsion Laboratory）,and about 1.5 dB better than that of the traditional double loop scheme.展开更多
基金This work was supported in part by National Natural Science Foundation of China(61671324)the Director’s Funding from Pilot National Laboratory for Marine Science and Technology(Qingdao)(QNLM201712)Zhan Xu was supported in part by National Natural Science Foundation of China(61620106001).
文摘As the complexity of space exploration missions augments,how to enhance the overall performance of communication,ranging or other functions has become a challengeable problem.Considering the integration of communication and ranging,we present a bit-level composite signal for simultaneous ranging and communication.In this composite method,through a specially designed mapping scheme using low-weight codewords,the information sequence is converted to a sparse sequence which is then superimposed on the ranging code.For ranging,the correlation characteristics of the ranging code component can be maintained to calculate the transmitter-receiver distance.For communications,the sparse sequence can be extracted without interference by eliminating the ranging code component.Simulation results show that the proposed composite signal can support communication and ranging simultaneously with limited sacrifice of ranging performance,and the performance loss of ranging can be controlled and minimized by lowering the density of information sequences using different sparsification encoding methods.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (60904090)the Postdoctoral Science Foundation of China(20080431306)the Special Postdoctoral Science Foundation of China (20081458)
文摘A modiΡed pseudo-noise（PN） code regeneration method is proposed to improve the clock tracking accuracy without impairing the code acquisition time performance.Thus,the method can meet the requirement of high accuracy ranging measurements in short time periods demanded by radio-science missions.The tracking error variance is derived by linear analysis.For some existing PN codes,which can be acquired rapidly,the tracking error variance performance of the proposed method is about 2.6 dB better than that of the JPL scheme（originally proposed by Jet Propulsion Laboratory）,and about 1.5 dB better than that of the traditional double loop scheme.
