• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2005.07d
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• pp.2570-2572
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• 2005

본 논문에서는 다중 경로 오차 제거를 위해, 4개의 상관값을 제공하는 가중 협대역 상관기(Weighted Narrow Correlator) 구조에 대해 제안한다. 가중 협대역 상관기는 서로 다른 칩 간격을 가지는 여러 상관값 출력에 가중치를 주어 다중경로 신호에 의한 코드 위상 측정 오차를 줄이는 방법이다. 우선 다양한 지연시간 및 신호 감쇄를 가지는 다중 경로 신호에 대하여, 가중치에 대한 수신기의 성능 변화를 분석하고 이를 통해 최적의 가중치를 선택하였다. 제안한 상관기는 일반 수신기와 동일한 신호 획득능력을 가지며, 협대역 상관기보다 개선된 다중경로 오차 제거 능력을 보인다. 가중 협대역 상관기의 성능은 시뮬레이션을 통한 의사거리 측정치의 비교를 통해 검증하였다.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.32 no.10C
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• pp.1032-1041
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• 2007

The global navigation satellite system (GNSS), which is the core technique for the location based service, adopts the direct sequence/spread spectrum (DS/SS) as its modulation method. The success of a DS/SS system depends on the synchronization between the received and locally generated pseudo noise (PN) signals. As a step in the synchronization process, the tacking scheme performs fine adjustment to bring the phase difference between the two PN signals to zero. The most widely used tracking scheme is the delay locked loop with early minus late discriminator (EL-DLL). In the ideal case, the EL-DLL is the best estimator among various DLL. However, in the band-limited multipath environment, the EL-DLL has tracking bias. In this paper, the timing offset range of correlation function is divided into advanced offset range (AOR) and delayed offset range (DOR) centering around the correct synchronization time point. The tracking bias results from the following two reasons: symmetry distortion between correlation values in AOR and DOR, and mismatch between the time point corresponding to the maximum correlation value and the synchronization time point. The former and latter are named as the type I and type II tracking bias, respectively. In this paper, when the receiver has finite bandwidth in the presence of multipath signals, it is shown that the type II tracking bias becomes a more dominant error factor than the type I tracking bias, and the correlation values in AOR are not almost changed. Exploiting these characteristics, we propose a novel tracking bias mitigation scheme and demonstrate that the tracking accuracy of the proposed scheme is higher than that of the conventional scheme, both in the presence and absence of noise.