Evaluation & comparison of ranging using Universal Access Transceiver (UAT) and 1090 MHz Mode S Extended Squitter (Mode S ES)

Author

Yu Hsuan Chen ; Lo, Shihmin ; Enge, Per ; Shau Shiun Jan

Author_Institution

Dept. of Aeronaut. & Astronaut., Stanford Univ., Stanford, CA, USA

fYear

2014

fDate

5-8 May 2014

Firstpage

915

Lastpage

925

Abstract

The FAA Alternative Position Navigation and Timing effort is developing technologies to provide navigation service capable of sustaining operations in the event of the loss of Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS). APNT will utilize existing ground infrastructure to support this capability. One effort is to examine the use of the Automatic Dependent Surveillance Broadcast (ADS-B) ground infrastructure for ranging. This paper examines the use the two transmitted ADS-B signals: 1) 1090 MHz Mode S Extended Squitter (Mode ES) and Universal Access Transceiver (UAT). It uses the transmitted, on-air signal to examine multipath, ranging and timing performance.

Keywords

Global Positioning System; radio broadcasting; radio transceivers; surveillance; ADS-B signal transmission; APNT; FAA alternative position navigation and timing; GNSS; alternative position navigation and time; automatic dependent surveillance broadcast; frequency 1090 MHz; global navigation satellite system; ground infrastructure; mode S extended squitter; multipath performance; on-air signal transmission; ranging; universal access transceiver; Aircraft; Distance measurement; Global Positioning System; Surveillance; Synchronization; Transceivers; APNT; Mode S ES; UAT;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Position, Location and Navigation Symposium - PLANS 2014, 2014 IEEE/ION

Conference_Location

Monterey, CA

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-3319-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PLANS.2014.6851456

Filename

6851456