Title
Local Frequency Folding Method For Fast Pn-Code Acquisition
Abstract
The large Doppler offset that exists in high dynamic environments poses a serious impediment to the acquisition of direct sequence spread spectrum (DSSS) signals. To ensure acceptable detection probabilities, the frequency space has to be finely divided, which leads to complicated acquisition structures and excessively long acquisition time at low SNR. A local frequency folding (LFF) method designed for combined application with established techniques dedicated to PN-code synchronization is proposed in this paper. Through modulating local PN-code block with a fixed waveform obtained by folding all frequency cells together, we eliminate the need for frequency search and ease the workload of acquisition. We also analyze the performance of LFF and find that the detection performance degradation from folding can be compensated by FFT-based coherent integration. The study is complemented with numerical simulations showing that the proposed method has advantages over unfolding methods with respect to detection probability and mean acquisition time, and the advantage becomes obvious but limited if the folded number gets larger.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.1587/transcom.E97.B.1072
IEICE TRANSACTIONS ON COMMUNICATIONS
Keywords
Field
DocType
PN-code acquisition, local frequency folding, detection probability, mean acquisition time
Pseudorandom noise,Computer science,Speech recognition,Computer hardware,Distributed computing
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
E97B
5
0916-8516
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
1
0.38
3
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Wenquan Feng193.58
Xiaodi Xing210.38
Qi Zhao3209.69
Zulin Wang421629.63