Receiving spread spectrum signals
First Claim
1. A receiver for spread spectrum signals comprising a first part configured to preprocess and digitize a received spread spectrum signal, anda second part configured to track the digitized received spread spectrum signal and comprising a carrier loop and a code loop, wherein the code loop comprises a generator for a reference receiver signal for correlation with the received spread spectrum signal and the code loop is configured to modify the reference receiver signal in order to shape a correlation function between the received spread spectrum signal and the reference receiver signal,wherein one ofthe first part is adapted for multiplying the received spread spectrum signal with a first analog spectral offsetting signal provided for down-converting the received spread spectrum signal to an intermediate frequency IF0 and a sub-carrier frequency fm selected from a set of M sub-carrier frequencies such that the received spread spectrum signal is down-converted and spectrally offset in the analog domain during a time interval covering Lm chips, wherein Lm chips comprises at least one chip of a spreading code of the received spread spectrum signal,orthe first part is adapted for multiplying the received spread spectrum signal with a second analog spectral offsetting signal provided for down-converting the received spread spectrum signal to an intermediate frequency IF0 in the analog domain, for digitizing the down-converted received spread-spectrum signal, and for multiplying the digitized and down-converted received spread spectrum signal with a digital spectral offsetting signal provided for spectrally offsetting the digitized and down-converted received spread spectrum signal in the digital domain to a sub-carrier frequency fm selected from a set of M sub-carrier frequencies such that the digitized and down-converted received spread spectrum signal is spectrally offset in the digital domain during a time interval covering Lm chips, wherein Lm chips comprises at least one chip of a spreading code of the received spread spectrum signal.
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Abstract
A receiver for spread spectrum signals comprising a first part for preprocessing and digitizing a received signal, and a second part for tracking the digitized signal comprising a carrier loop and a code loop. The code loop comprises a generator for a reference receiver signal for correlation with the received signal and the code loop is configured to modify the reference signal to shape a correlation function between the received signal and the reference receiver signal. The first part is adapted to multiply the received spread spectrum signal with a first analog spectral offsetting signal provided for down-converting the received signal to an intermediate frequency and a sub-carrier frequency, selected from a set of sub-carrier frequencies, such that the received signal is down-converted and spectrally offset in the analog domain during a time interval covering at least one chip of a spreading code of the received signal.
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1. A receiver for spread spectrum signals comprising a first part configured to preprocess and digitize a received spread spectrum signal, and
a second part configured to track the digitized received spread spectrum signal and comprising a carrier loop and a code loop, wherein the code loop comprises a generator for a reference receiver signal for correlation with the received spread spectrum signal and the code loop is configured to modify the reference receiver signal in order to shape a correlation function between the received spread spectrum signal and the reference receiver signal, wherein one of the first part is adapted for multiplying the received spread spectrum signal with a first analog spectral offsetting signal provided for down-converting the received spread spectrum signal to an intermediate frequency IF0 and a sub-carrier frequency fm selected from a set of M sub-carrier frequencies such that the received spread spectrum signal is down-converted and spectrally offset in the analog domain during a time interval covering Lm chips, wherein Lm chips comprises at least one chip of a spreading code of the received spread spectrum signal, or the first part is adapted for multiplying the received spread spectrum signal with a second analog spectral offsetting signal provided for down-converting the received spread spectrum signal to an intermediate frequency IF0 in the analog domain, for digitizing the down-converted received spread-spectrum signal, and for multiplying the digitized and down-converted received spread spectrum signal with a digital spectral offsetting signal provided for spectrally offsetting the digitized and down-converted received spread spectrum signal in the digital domain to a sub-carrier frequency fm selected from a set of M sub-carrier frequencies such that the digitized and down-converted received spread spectrum signal is spectrally offset in the digital domain during a time interval covering Lm chips, wherein Lm chips comprises at least one chip of a spreading code of the received spread spectrum signal.
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9. A method for receiving spread spectrum signals comprising the following steps:
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preprocessing and digitizing a received spread spectrum signal, tracking the digitized received spread spectrum signal by means of a carrier loop and a code loop, wherein the tracking comprises generating a reference receiver signal for correlation with the received spread spectrum signal in the code loop and shaping a correlation function between the received spread spectrum signal and the reference receiver signal by modifying the reference receiver signal in the code loop, wherein one of the received spread spectrum signal is multiplied with a first analog spectral offsetting signal provided for down-converting the received spread spectrum signal to an intermediate frequency IF0 and a sub-carrier frequency fm selected from a set of M sub-carrier frequencies such that the received spread spectrum signal is down-converted and spectrally offset in the analog domain during a time interval covering Lm chips, wherein Lm chips comprises at least one chip of a spreading code of the received spread spectrum signal, or the received spread spectrum signal is multiplied with a second analog spectral offsetting signal provided for down-converting the received spread spectrum signal to an intermediate frequency IF0 in the analog domain, for digitizing the down-converted received spread-spectrum signal, and for multiplying the digitized and down-converted received spread spectrum signal with a digital spectral offsetting signal provided for spectrally offsetting the digitized and down-converted received spread spectrum signal in the digital domain to a sub-carrier frequency fm selected from a set of M sub-carrier frequencies such that the digitized and down-converted received spread spectrum signal is spectrally offset in the digital domain during a time interval covering Lm chips, wherein Lm chips comprises at least one chip of a spreading code of the received spread spectrum signal; wherein the first analog spectral offsetting signal is defined by ej(2π
(fRF +IF0 +fm )(t−
τest,prec )+φm ), and the second analog spectral offsetting signal is defined by ej(2π
(fRF +IF0 )(t−
τest,prec )) and the digital spectral offsetting signal is defined by ej(2π
(fm )(t−
τest,prec )+φm )with t being a time variable, fm being a sub-carrier frequency selected from the set of M sub-carrier frequencies and applied during a time interval covering Lm chips, τ
est,prec being a time offset, which is used for synchronization and is a function of the actual propagation delay τ
of the transmitted signal up to the receiver and is estimated in a τ
est,prec generator from at least one of the past outputs of the code loop and/or carrier loop of the receiver, and/or is estimated by an external estimator of the propagation delay to the receiver and processed by the τ
est,prec generator, andφ
m being a phase which ensures that the argument of the exponential term is continuous at a transition between two consecutive sub-carrier frequencies fm and fm+1. - View Dependent Claims (10, 11)
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12. A method for receiving spread spectrum signals comprising the following steps:
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preprocessing and digitizing a received spread spectrum signal, tracking the digitized received spread spectrum signal by means of a carrier loop and a code loop, wherein the tracking comprises generating a reference receiver signal for correlation with the received spread spectrum signal in the code loop and shaping a correlation function between the received spread spectrum signal and the reference receiver signal by modifying the reference receiver signal in the code loop, wherein one of the received spread spectrum signal is multiplied with a first analog spectral offsetting signal provided for down-converting the received spread spectrum signal to an intermediate frequency IF0 and a sub-carrier frequency fm selected from a set of M sub-carrier frequencies such that the received spread spectrum signal is down-converted and spectrally offset in the analog domain during a time interval covering Lm chips, wherein Lm chips comprises at least one chip of a spreading code of the received spread spectrum signal, or the received spread spectrum signal is multiplied with a second analog spectral offsetting signal provided for down-converting the received spread spectrum signal to an intermediate frequency IF0 in the analog domain, for digitizing the down-converted received spread-spectrum signal, and for multiplying the digitized and down-converted received spread spectrum signal with a digital spectral offsetting signal provided for spectrally offsetting the digitized and down-converted received spread spectrum signal in the digital domain to a sub-carrier frequency fm selected from a set of M sub-carrier frequencies such that the digitized and down-converted received spread spectrum signal is spectrally offset in the digital domain during a time interval covering Lm chips, wherein Lm chips comprises at least one chip of a spreading code of the received spread spectrum signal, wherein the steps of down-converting and digitizing of the received spread spectrum signal comprises either the synthesizing of frequency references for down-converting the received spread spectrum signal to the intermediate frequency IF0 and the sub-carrier frequency fm and for digitizing the down-converted received spread spectrum signal, or the synthesizing of frequency references for down-converting the received spread spectrum signal to the intermediate frequency IF0 and for digitizing the down-converted received spread spectrum signal and for spectrally offsetting the down-converted digital spread spectrum signal to the sub-carrier frequency fm. - View Dependent Claims (13, 14)
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15. A method for receiving spread spectrum signals comprising the following steps:
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preprocessing and digitizing a received spread spectrum signal, tracking the digitized received spread spectrum signal by means of a carrier loop and a code loop, wherein the tracking comprises generating a reference receiver signal for correlation with the received spread spectrum signal in the code loop and shaping a correlation function between the received spread spectrum signal and the reference receiver signal by modifying the reference receiver signal in the code loop, wherein one of the received spread spectrum signal is multiplied with a first analog spectral offsetting signal provided for down-converting the received spread spectrum signal to an intermediate frequency IF0 and a sub-carrier frequency fm selected from a set of M sub-carrier frequencies such that the received spread spectrum signal is down-converted and spectrally offset in the analog domain during a time interval covering Lm chips, wherein Lm chips comprises at least one chip of a spreading code of the received spread spectrum signal, or the received spread spectrum signal is multiplied with a second analog spectral offsetting signal provided for down-converting the received spread spectrum signal to an intermediate frequency IF0 in the analog domain, for digitizing the down-converted received spread-spectrum signal, and for multiplying the digitized and down-converted received spread spectrum signal with a digital spectral offsetting signal provided for spectrally offsetting the digitized and down-converted received spread spectrum signal in the digital domain to a sub-carrier frequency fm selected from a set of M sub-carrier frequencies such that the digitized and down-converted received spread spectrum signal is spectrally offset in the digital domain during a time interval covering Lm chips, wherein Lm chips comprises at least one chip of a spreading code of the received spread spectrum signal, wherein as spread spectrum signal a signal with any pulse shape type and particularly a Binary-Phase-Shift-Keying—
BPSK(N)—
modulated spread spectrum signal such that the combination of the reference receiver signal multiplied with the offsetting signal can be replaced with a Binary Offset Carrier (BOC) (K,N) reference receiver signal if the set of M sub-carrier frequencies contains only 2 frequencies +fK and −
fK and the duration of the time intervals when +fk is applied is identical to the duration of the time intervals when −
fk is applied, is received. - View Dependent Claims (16, 17)
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