On the Mitigation of Ionospheric Scintillation in Advanced GNSS Receivers

Ionospheric scintillation is one of the major threats and most challenging propagation scenarios affecting Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) and related applications. The fact that this phenomenon causes severe degradations only in equatorial and high latitude regions has led to very few co...

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Autores: Vila-Valls, J, Closas, P, Fernandez-Prades, C, Curran, JT
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2018
País:España
Institución:Centre Tecnològic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya (CTTC)
Repositorio:r-CTTC. Repositorio Institucional Producción Científica del Centre Tecnològic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya (CTTC)
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Palabra clave:Adaptive filtering
Adaptive filters
Communication satellites
Filtration
Ionospheric measurement
Kalman filters
Mathematical models
Receivers (containers)
Robustness (control systems)
Safety engineering
Satellites
Scintillation
Signal receivers
Standards
State space methods
Carrier phase synchronization
Global Navigation Satellite Systems
GNSS
Ionospheric scintillation
Satellite broadcasting
Scintillation model
Global positioning system
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Sumario:Ionospheric scintillation is one of the major threats and most challenging propagation scenarios affecting Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) and related applications. The fact that this phenomenon causes severe degradations only in equatorial and high latitude regions has led to very few contributions dealing with the fundamental scintillation mitigation problem, being of paramount importance in safety critical applications and advanced integrity receivers. The goal of this paper is twofold, first to bring together the most relevant contributions on GNSS receiver design under scintillation conditions, and then, to propose a new GNSS carrier tracking framework and scintillation mitigation methodology. Scintillation complex gain components are modeled as AR processes and embedded into the state-space formulation, providing the filter the capability to distinguish between dynamics and phase scintillation contributions. In addition, the actual need of robust solutions is solved by using an adaptive filtering approach and directly operating with the baseband received signal. Simulation results, using both synthetic and real scintillation data, are provided to support the theoretical discussion and to show the performance improvements of such new approach. © 1965-2011 IEEE.