Systems Engineering and Electronics ›› 2022, Vol. 44 ›› Issue (12): 3800-3810.doi: 10.12305/j.issn.1001-506X.2022.12.25

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C-band navigation signal modulation mode and performance evaluation of BeiDou system

Yude NI1, Ling ZOU1, Ruihua LIU1,*, Wantong CHEN1, Zhe QIN2, Kai WANG1   

  1. 1. College of Electronic Information and Automation, Civil Aviation University of China, Tianjin 300300, China
    2. Sino-Europe Institute of Aeronautical Engineering, Civil Aviation University of China, Tianjin 300300, China
  • Received:2021-10-25 Online:2022-11-14 Published:2022-11-24
  • Contact: Ruihua LIU

Abstract:

In view of the strict compatibility constraint requirements of C-band satellite navigation signals, continuous phase modulation based on prolate spheroidal wave functions(CPM-PSWF) is exploratorily applied to C-band navigation. After analyzing the influence of key parameters on the power spectrum characteristics of CPM-PSWF signal, four CPM-PSWF sub-families are initially screened as candidate navigation signals for C-band, and their navigation performance indicators are also evaluated. On the basis of weighing the spectrum compatibility of the C-band signal and various navigation performance indicators, it is proposed to use the CPM-PSWF signal with "QM2PSWF(10) C=6" and h=0.5 as the C-band navigation signal of the BeiDou system. The research shows that compared with the current C-band non-CPM-PSWF candidate navigation signal, the proposed CPM-PSWF signal spectrum leakage is less, the out-of-band attenuation is faster, and the code tracking accuracy and anti-multi-path performance are more competitive.

Key words: C-band navigation, continuous phase modulation based on prolate spheroidal wave functions (CPM-PSWF), compatibility, navigation performance

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