Communication system and method for acquiring pseudonoise codes or carrier signals under conditions of relatively large chip rate uncertainty
First Claim
1. In a communication system receiver utilizing a local carrier signal and a local code to respectively determine a carrier frequency of a received signal and a phase and rate of a received signal code, wherein the received signal carrier frequency and code rate each reside within a respective uncertainty region, a signal acquisition unit to acquire a transmitted signal including a code comprising:
- a frequency band module to determine a quantity of frequency bands to employ for said local carrier signal to acquire said transmitted signal, wherein said frequency band module includes a band determination module to identify a quantity of frequency bands sufficient to cover said frequency uncertainty region and a quantity of frequency bands sufficient to cover said code rate uncertainty region, to compare said frequency band quantities for said frequency and code rate uncertainty regions to each other and to select the frequency bands associated with the greatest quantity as said determined quantity of frequency bands to acquire said transmitted signal; and
an acquisition module to employ said determined quantity of frequency bands for said local carrier signal to determine said transmitted signal carrier frequency and said phase and code rate of said transmitted signal code in order to acquire said transmitted signal.
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Abstract
A Spread Spectrum system acquires signals with frequency uncertainty. The present invention independently computes the number of frequency bands necessary to cover the carrier frequency uncertainty and the chip rate uncertainty and uses the largest of the two quantities in the acquisition process. A receiver cycles through pseudonoise code phases until a matched filter output exceeds a threshold. The local code is adjusted based on that code phase and the signal is processed for carrier acquisition, where an FFT estimates the carrier frequency. The code phase and nearest neighbors are used to determine the presence of a false alarm. When a false alarm is absent, the detection is examined for an alias or noise spur. If an alias is absent, the signal search is complete. Otherwise, processing continues to search for a pseudonoise code. The process continues by examining all code phases for each band until a signal is detected.
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1. In a communication system receiver utilizing a local carrier signal and a local code to respectively determine a carrier frequency of a received signal and a phase and rate of a received signal code, wherein the received signal carrier frequency and code rate each reside within a respective uncertainty region, a signal acquisition unit to acquire a transmitted signal including a code comprising:
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a frequency band module to determine a quantity of frequency bands to employ for said local carrier signal to acquire said transmitted signal, wherein said frequency band module includes a band determination module to identify a quantity of frequency bands sufficient to cover said frequency uncertainty region and a quantity of frequency bands sufficient to cover said code rate uncertainty region, to compare said frequency band quantities for said frequency and code rate uncertainty regions to each other and to select the frequency bands associated with the greatest quantity as said determined quantity of frequency bands to acquire said transmitted signal; and an acquisition module to employ said determined quantity of frequency bands for said local carrier signal to determine said transmitted signal carrier frequency and said phase and code rate of said transmitted signal code in order to acquire said transmitted signal. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11)
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12. A method of acquiring a transmitted signal including a code in a communication system receiver utilizing a local carrier signal and a local code to respectively determine a carrier frequency of said transmitted signal and a phase and rate of said transmitted signal code, wherein the transmitted signal carrier frequency and code rate each reside within a respective uncertainty region, said method comprising:
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(a) determining a quantity of frequency bands to employ for said local carrier signal to acquire said transmitted signal, wherein step (a) further includes; (a.1) identifying a quantity of frequency bands sufficient to cover said frequency uncertainty region and a quantity of frequency bands sufficient to cover said code rate uncertainty region; and (a.2) comparing said frequency band quantities for said frequency and code rate uncertainty regions to each other and selecting the frequency bands associated with the greatest quantity as said determined quantity of frequency bands to acquire said transmitted signal; and (b) employing said determined quantity of frequency bands for said local carrier signal to determine said transmitted signal carrier frequency and said phase and code rate of said transmitted signal code in order to acquire said transmitted signal. - View Dependent Claims (13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22)
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