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http://dx.doi.org/10.11003/JPNT.2021.10.1.1

Design of SDR-based Multi-Constellation Multi-Frequency GNSS Signal Acquisition/Tracking Module  

Yoo, Won Jae (Department of Electronics and Information Engineering, Korea Aerospace University)
Kim, Lawoo (Department of Electronics and Information Engineering, Korea Aerospace University)
Lee, Yu Dam (Department of Electronics and Information Engineering, Korea Aerospace University)
Lee, Taek Geun (Department of Electronics and Information Engineering, Korea Aerospace University)
Lee, Hyung Keun (Department of Electronics and Information Engineering, Korea Aerospace University)
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Journal of Positioning, Navigation, and Timing / v.10, no.1, 2021 , pp. 1-12 More about this Journal
Abstract
Due to the Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) modernization, the recently launched GNSS satellites transmit signals at various frequency bands of L1, L2 and L5. Considering the Korea Positioning System (KPS) signal and other GNSS augmentation signals in the future, there is a high probability of applying more complex communication techniques to the new GNSS signals. For the reason, GNSS receivers based on flexible Software Defined Radio (SDR) concept needs to be developed to evaluate various experimental communication techniques by accessing each signal processing module in detail. In this paper, we introduce a multi-constellation (GPS/Galileo/BeiDou) multi-band (L1/L2/L5) SDR by utilizing Ettus USRP N210. The signal reception module of the developed SDR includes down-conversion, analog-to-digital conversion, signal acquisition, and tracking. The down-conversion module is designed based on the super-heterodyne method fitted for MHz sampling. The signal acquisition module performs PRN code generation and FFT operation and the signal tracking module implements delay/phase/frequency locked loops only by software. In general, it is difficult to sample entire main lobe components of L5 band signals due to their higher chipping rate compared with L1 and L2 band signals. Experiment result shows that it is possible to acquire and track the under-sampled signals by the developed SDR.
Keywords
SDR; multi-GNSS; multi-constellation; signal acquisition; signal tracking;
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