Position, Navigation, and Timing Technologies in the 21st Century

where is the prompt correlation. The atan2discriminator remains linear over the full input error range of ± π and could be used without the risk of introducing phase ambiguities. In contrast, a GPS receiver cannot use this discriminator unless the transmitted data bit values of the navigation message are known [54]. Furthermore, while GPS receivers require second‐ or higher‐order PLLs due to the high dynamics of GPS SVs, lower‐order PLLs could be used in cellular CDMA navigation receivers. It was found that the receiver could easily track the carrier phase with a second‐order PLL with a loop filter transfer function given by

(38.9)

where is the damping ratio, and ω nis the undamped natural frequency, which can be related to the PLL noise‐equivalent bandwidth B n,PLLby [55]. The output of the loop filter v PLL, kis the rate of change of the carrier phase error, expressed in rad/s. The Doppler frequency is deduced by dividing v PLL, kby 2 π . The loop filter transfer function in Eq. (38.9)is discretized and realized in state space. The noise‐equivalent bandwidth is chosen to range between 4 and 8 Hz.

DLL:The carrier‐aided DLL employs a non‐coherent dot‐product discriminator given by

where Λ is a normalization constant given by Λ = T c/2 C ; C is the carrier power, which can be estimated from the prompt correlation; and , and are the prompt, early, and late correlations, respectively. The prompt correlation was described in Section 38.5.2.1. The early and late correlations are calculated by correlating the received signal with an early and a delayed version of the prompt PN sequence, respectively. The time shift between and is defined by an early‐minus‐late time t eml, expressed in chips. Since the autocorrelation function of the transmitted cellular CDMA pulses is not triangular as in the case of GPS, a wider t emlis preferable in order to have a significant difference between , and . Figure 38.13shows the autocorrelation function of the cellular CDMA PN code as specified by the cdma2000 standard and that of the C/A code in GPS. It can be seen from Figure 38.13that for t eml≤ 0.5 chips, R c( τ ) in the cdma2000 standard has an approximately constant value, which is not desirable for precise tracking. A good rule of thumb is to choose 1 ≤ t eml≤ 1.2 chips.

The DLL loop filter is a simple gain K , with a noise‐equivalent bandwidth Hz. The output of the DLL loop filter v DLL, kis the rate of change of the code phase, expressed in s/s. Assuming low‐side mixing, the code start time is updated according to

Figure 38.13 Autocorrelation function of GPS C/A code and cellular CDMA PN sequence according to the cdma2000 standard (Khalife et al. [12]).

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In a GPS receiver, the pseudorange is calculated based on the time a navigation message subframe begins, which eliminates ambiguities due to the relative distance between GPS SVs [55]. This necessitates decoding the navigation message in order to detect the start of a subframe. These ambiguities do not exist in a cellular CDMA system. This follows from the fact that a PN offset of one translates to a distance greater than 15 km between BTSs, which is beyond the size of a typical cell [56].

Finally, the pseudorange estimate ρ can be deduced by multiplying the code start time by the speed of light c ; that is,

(38.10)

Figure 38.14shows the intermediate signals produced within the tracking loops of the cellular CDMA navigation receiver: code error; phase error; Doppler frequency; early, prompt, and late correlations; pseudorange; and in‐phase and quadrature components of the correlation.

Demodulating the sync and paging channel signals is performed similarly to the pilot signal but with two major differences: (i) the locally generated PN sequence is furthermore spread by the corresponding Walsh code and (ii) the subaccumulation period is bounded by the data symbol interval. In contrast to GPS signals, in which a data bit stretches over 20 C/A codes, a sync data symbol comprises only 256 PN chips, and a paging channel data symbol comprises 128 chips. After carrier wipe‐off, the sync and paging signals are processed in the reverse order of the steps illustrated in Figures 38.5and 38.7, respectively. It is worth noting that the start of the sync message always coincides with the start of the PN code, and the corresponding paging channel message starts after 320 ms minus the PN offset (expressed in seconds), as shown in Figure 38.15. Recall that the long code is also used to spread the paging message in the downlink (see Figure 38.7). The long code state decoded from a sync message is valid at the beginning of the corresponding paging channel message.