Systems Engineering and Electronics ›› 2025, Vol. 47 ›› Issue (11): 3792-3801.doi: 10.12305/j.issn.1001-506X.2025.11.26

• Guidance, Navigation and Control • Previous Articles    

Monitoring and evaluation of time offsets between satellite navigation systems

Hong ZHANG1,2,*, Jihai ZHANG1,2, Haibo YUAN1,2,3, Shaowu DONG1,2,3,4   

  1. 1. National Time Service Center,Chinese Academy of Sciences,Xi’an 710600,China
    2. Key Laboratory of Time Reference and Applications,Chinese Academy of Sciences,Xi’an 710600,China
    3. College of Materials Science and Opto-Electronic Technology,University of Chinese Academy of Sciences,Beijing 100049,China
    4. School of Astronomy and Space Science,University of Chinese Academy of Sciences,Beijing 100049,China
  • Received:2024-09-12 Online:2025-11-25 Published:2025-12-08
  • Contact: Hong ZHANG

Abstract:

To evaluate the GNSS inter-system time offset monitoring results using global navigation satellite system (GNSS) time and coordinated universal time (UTC) offsets information, which published by the Bureau International des Poids et Mesures (BIPM), the traceability offsets of system time broadcast by each GNSS and the GNSS monitoring data referenced to local realization of UTC are utilized. Based on the single-station time offset monitoring technique, inter-system time offset monitoring results are comparatively analyzed with broadcast inter-system time offset information and the offset information between each system time and UTC, to achieve real-time monitoring and evaluation of GNSS inter-system time offsets. Comparing with GNSS time and UTC offsets information, which published by the BIPM, the results indicate that the maximum deviation between the system time offset broadcast in GNSS messages and BIPM’s published data is better than 6 ns, with a residual standard deviation below 3 ns. Additionally, the deviation between the UTC offset broadcast in GNSS messages and BIPM’s results remains within 6 ns, and the residual standard deviation is below 2.5 ns, which meet the interoperability requirements of most users for navigation systems.

Key words: global satellite navigation system (GNSS), time interoperability, time offsets monitoring and evaluation

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