Effects of ionospheric scintillation on differential demodulation of GPS data

Author

Dana, Roger A.

Author_Institution

Mission Res. Corp., Santa Barbara, CA, USA

Volume

33

Issue

3

fYear

1997

fDate

7/1/1997 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

893

Lastpage

902

Abstract

Global Positioning System (GPS) receivers that must operate under fading propagation conditions can use differential phase-shift keying (DPSK) and reference bits to reliably demodulate GPS data. The demodulation performance of such receivers is analyzed for nonfading and Rayleigh fading channels. Theoretical results derived here are compared with measured error rates taken during scintillation testing of a prototype GPS/DPSK receiver.

Keywords

Global Positioning System; demodulation; differential phase shift keying; error analysis; fading; ionospheric electromagnetic wave propagation; microwave propagation; radio receivers; GPS data; Rayleigh fading; differential demodulation; differential phase-shift keying; fading; global positioning system receivers; ionospheric scintillation; measured error rate; prototype GPS/DPSK receiver; reference bits; scintillation testing; Demodulation; Differential phase shift keying; Differential quadrature phase shift keying; Error analysis; Fading; Global Positioning System; Performance analysis; Prototypes; Rayleigh channels; Testing;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Aerospace and Electronic Systems, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9251

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/7.599264

Filename

599264