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A New Approach to Local Signal Design for Enhanced TMBOC Signal Tracking

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We present a new approach to the design of the signal generated locally to enhance the performance in tracking of the time-multiplexed binary offset carrier (TMBOC) signal. Considering that the advantages of the TMBOC signal such as a high degree resistance to noise and multipath result from its BOC(6,1) segments, we propose to design the local signal with exploiting only BOC(6,1) segments, which is different from the conventional design approach using both BOC(6,1) and BOC(1,1) segments of the TMBOC signal. Separating and re-grouping the components composing the BOC(6,1) segments, we produce a local signal set and develop a special correlation procedure tailored to the local signal set. Numerical results indicate that the proposed approach achieves the TMBOC signal tracking with a higher degree of robustness to noise and multipath influences over that of the conventional approach in various urban canyon environments.

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This research was supported by Basic Science Research Program through the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) funded by the Ministry of Education (2018R1D1A1B07051392 and 2018R1D1A1B07042083).

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  1. College of Information and Communication Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon, Korea

    Seokho Yoon & Keunhong Chae

  2. Department of Electronics Engineering, Konkuk University, Seoul, Korea

    Sun Yong Kim

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Yoon, S., Chae, K. & Kim, S.Y. A New Approach to Local Signal Design for Enhanced TMBOC Signal Tracking. J. Electr. Eng. Technol. 15, 1837–1845 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s42835-020-00451-4

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