In this paper, a new effective C/N0 theoretical model for global navigation satellite system (GNSS) receiver is proposed, in the presence of continuous wave interference (CWI). The proposed model is derived based on an interesting finding, correlator may output direct current (DC) in the presence of CWI. The DC introduced by CWI eventually leads to increase of carrier power estimation. It is totally different from current assumption that interference just causes noise power increase after correlation. The proposed model is verified by simulation.

In this paper, an improved GPS/RFID integration method based on Sequential Iterated Reduced Sigma Point Kalman Filter (SIRSPKF) is proposed for vehicle navigation applications. It is applied to improve the accuracy, reliability and availability of satellite positioning in the areas where the satellite visibility is limited. An RFID system is employed to assist the GPS system in achieving high accuracy positioning. Further, to reduce the measurement noise and decrease the computational complexity caused by the integrated GPS/RFID, SIRSPKF is investigated as the dominant filter for the proposed integration. Performances and computational complexities of different integration scenarios with different filters are compared in this paper. A field experiment shows that both accuracy and availability of positioning can be improved significantly by this low-cost GPS/RFID integration method with the reduced computational load.

The major weakness of global navigation satellite system receivers is their vulnerability to intentional and unintentional interference. Frequency domain interference suppression (FDIS) technology is one of the most useful countermeasures. The pseudo-range measurement is unbiased after FDIS filtering given an ideal analog channel. However, with the influence of the analog modules used in RF front-end, the amplitude response and phase response of the channel equivalent filter are non-ideal, which bias the pseudo-range measurement after FDIS filtering and the bias varies along with the frequency of the interference. This paper proposes an unbiased interference suppression method based on signal estimation and spectrum compensation. The core idea is to use the parameters calculated from the tracking loop to estimate and reconstruct the desired signal. The estimated signal is filtered by the equivalent filter of actual channel, then it is used for compensating the spectrum loss caused by the FDIS method in the frequency domain. Simulations show that the proposed algorithm can reduce the pseudo-range measurement bias significantly, even for channels with asymmetrical group delay and multiple interference sources at any location.

This paper proposes a technique for efficient standing multipath mitigation of geostationary earth orbit (GEO) satellites. The performance of traditional filtering methods for GEO multipath errors can be effectively improved by using carrier frequency variation approach. Conventional multipath mitigation methods do not pay much attention to the GEO satellite multipath effects, and they are less effective due to the non-zero average characteristics of GEO multipath errors for short epochs. By varying carrier frequency, the multipath error average becomes approaching zero in short epochs due to the faster multipath carrier phase variation. Therefore, it could enhance the traditional filtering method performance on the multipath signals. By varying the carrier frequency or the carrier phase offset, the average multipath error will approach zero as a result of the frequent multipath carrier phase variations. This method aims to explore the potential for signal pattern design while improving the performance of current satellite navigation systems. The results show that the root mean square error (RMSE) for pseudo-range multipath errors of the proposed approach improves about 0.3m with a frequency variation range of 15MHz.

A novel multipath mitigation algorithm for binary offset carrier (BOC) signals in the global navigation satellite system (GNSS) is presented. Based on the W2 code correlation reference waveform (CCRW) structure, a series of bipolar reference waveforms (BRWs) is introduced to shape the unambiguous s-curve. The resulted s-curve has a single stable zero-crossing point such that the tracking unambiguity in BOC (1,1) can be solved. At the same time, multipath mitigation capability is improved as well. As verified by simulations, the proposed method matches the multipath mitigation performance of W2 CCRW, and is superior to conventional receiver correlation techniques. This method can be applied in GPS L1 and Galileo E1.