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A Compensation Method of Timing Signals for Communications Networks Synchronization by using Loran Signals  

Lee, Young-Kyu (한국표준과학연구원 기반표준부 길이/시간센터)
Lee, Chang-Bok (한국표준과학연구원 기반표준부 길이/시간센터)
Yang, Sung-Hoon (한국표준과학연구원 기반표준부 길이/시간센터)
Lee, Jong-Gu (한국표준과학연구원 기반표준부 길이/시간센터)
Kong, Hyun-Dong (국토해양부 제주해양관리단)
Abstract
In this paper, we describe a compensation method that can be used for the situation where Loran receivers lose their phase lock to the received Loran signals when Loran signals are employed for the synchronization of national infrastructures such as telecommunication networks, electric power distribution and so on. In losing the phase lock to the received signals in a Loran receiver, the inner oscillator of the receiver starts free-running and the performance of the timing synchronization signals which are locked to the oscillator's phase is very severly degraded, so the timing accuracy under 1 us for a Primary Reference Clock (PRC) required in the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) G.811 standard can not be satisfied in the situation. Therefore, in this paper, we propose a method which can compensate the phase jump by using a compensation algorithm when a Loran receiver loses its phase lock and the performance evaluation of the proposed algorithm is achieved by the Maximum Time Interval Error (MTIE) of the measured data. From the performance evaluation results, it is observed that the requirement under 1 us for a PRC can be easily achieved by using the proposed algorithm showing about 0.6 us with under 30 minutes mean interval of smoothing with 1 hour period when the loss of phase lock occurs.
Keywords
Time Synchronization; Loran Signal; GPS Backup; Maximum Time Interval Error (MTIE); Phase Compensation Algorithm;
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