Journal of Systems Engineering and Electronics ›› 2020, Vol. 31 ›› Issue (2): 252-265.doi: 10.23919/JSEE.2020.000003

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Spectral transformation-based technique for reducing effect of limited pre-correlation bandwidth in the GNSS receiver filter in presence of noise and multipath

Salem TITOUNI1(), Khaled ROUABAH1,*(), Salim ATIA1(), Mustapha FLISSI1(), Salaheddine MEZAACHE1(), Mohamed Salim BOUHLEL2()   

  1. 1 Electronics and Advanced Telecommunications Laboratory of Electronics Department, University of Mohamed El Bachir El Ibrahimi, Bordj Bou Arreridj 34031, Algeria
    2 Sciences of Electronics, Technologies of Information and Telecommunications Research Unit, Higher Institute of Biotechnology of Sfax, Sfax 3038, Tunisia
  • Received:2019-04-15 Online:2020-04-01 Published:2020-04-30
  • Contact: Khaled ROUABAH E-mail:salem.titouni@univ-bba.dz;Khaled_rouabah@yahoo.fr;salimattia@ymail.com;flissi_mus@yahoo.fr;mez.salah@gmail.com;medsalim.bouhlel@enis.rnu.tn
  • About author:TITOUNI Salem was born in 1990. He received his Licentiate degree in telecommunications, his M.S. degree in networks and telecommunications from the University of Mohamed EI Bachir El Ibrahimi, Bordj Bou Arreridj, Algeria, in 2012 and 2014. In 2015, he received his M.S. degree in embedded systems form the University of Lorraine, Nancy, France. Since 2015, he has been pursuing his Ph.D. degree in innovative architecture for telecommunications with the Department of Electronics Engineering of the University of Mohamed EI Bachir El Ibrahimi. His research interests include signal processing, communication signals, radio navigation, hybrid satellite communications systems, acquisition and tracking of GNSS signals. E-mail: salem.titouni@univ-bba.dz|ROUABAH Khaled was born in 1974. He received his Engineer degree in electronics from the University of Farhat Abbas, Setif, Algeria, in 1999. He obtained his M.S. degree in telecommunications and networking in 2001 from Higher Institute of Aeronautics and Space, Toulouse, France, his Magister degree in communications and his Ph.D. degree in electronics engineering from the University of Farhat Abbas in 2005 and 2010 respectively. In 2013, he obtained his Ph.D. degree in electronics. Since 2018, he works as a professor at the Electronics Department, University of Mohamed EI Bachir El Ibrahimi, Bordj Bou Arreridj. His research interests include communication signals, geolocation, parallel processing, hardware implementation, signal structure design, mobile computing and spreading communication. E-mail: Khaled_rouabah@yahoo.fr|ATIA Salim was born in 1958. He received his B.S. degree in electronics in 1981 at the University of Constantine Algeria. He received his M.S. degree in electrical engineering from Ohio State University, Ohio, USA, in 1984. He obtained his Ph.D. and HDR degrees in electronics, in 2013 and 2018, respectively. Currently he is a lecturer in Electronics Department, University of Mohamed EI Bachir El Ibrahimi, Bordj Bou Arreridj. His research interests include signal processing of satellite communication, radio communication and radio navigation. E-mail: salimattia@ymail.com|FLISSI Mustapha was born in 1970. He received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in electronics engineering, and his Magister degree in communications in 1995 and 2001 from the University of Farhat Abbas, Setif, Algeria. He received his Ph.D. degree in electronics from the University of M'sila, Algeria, in 2015. In 2018, he obtained his HDR degree in electronics. Since 2014, he has been working as a lecturer at the Electronics Department, University of Mohamed EI Bachir El Ibrahimi, Bordj Bou Arreridj, Algeria. His research interests include satellite navigation, signal structure design and signal processing. E-mail: flissi_mus@yahoo.fr|MEZAACHE Salaheddine was born in 1974. He received his Engineer degree in electronic, and his Magister degree in telecommunication from the University of Ferhat Abbas, Setif, Algeria, in 1997 and 2000, respectively. He received his Ph.D. degree in electronics from the University of M'sila, Algeria, in 2018. Currently, he is a lecturer in the Department of Electrical Engineering at Bordj Bou Arreridj University. His research interests include parallel computing, pattern recognition and computational electro magnetics. E-mail: mez.salah@gmail.com|BOUHLEL Mohamed Salim was born in 1955. He received his Engineering degree from the National Engineering School of Sfax (ENIS) in 1981, his DEA in automatic and in formatic from the National Institute of Applied Sciences of Lyon in 1981, and his Ph.D. degree from the National Institute of Applied Sciences of Lyon in 1983. He is actually the Head of Biomedical Imagery Department, Higher Institute of Biotechnology of Sfax (ISBS). He received the golden medal with the special mention of jury in the first International Meeting of Invention, Innovation and Technology (Dubai) in 1999. He was the vice president of the Tunisian Association of the Specialists in electronics. He is actually the vice president of the Tunisian Association of the Experts in Imagery and president of the Tunisian Association of the Experts in Information Technology and Telecommunication. He is the editor in chief of the International Journal of Electronic, Technology of Information and Telecommunication, the chairman of the international conference: Sciences of Electronic, Technologies of Information and Telecommunication and the member of the program committee of a lot of international conferences. In addition, he is an associate professor at the Department of Image and Information Technology in Higher National School of Telecommunication ENST-Bretagne (France). His research interests include satellite navigation, signal processing, image processing, telecommunications, human machine interaction, encryption and watermarking. E-mail: medsalim.bouhlel@enis.rnu.tn

Abstract:

This paper proposes an efficient scheme to reduce the pre-correlation bandwidth effect in the global navigation satellite system (GNSS) receiver filtering process. It is mainly based on the application of a spectral transformation to the satellite-emitted signal that effectively reduces its band. At the receiver's end, this operation causes the spreading of noise over a much wider band than that used by the radio frequency stage. Consequently, the resulting auto-correlation function in the acquisition process acquires properties that enhance considerably the performance of the receiver in the presence of the multipath and noise disturbing phenomena. The simulation results demonstrate that the proposed method is a plausible solution for both multipath and noise problems in the GNSS applications for any limited value of the pre-correlation bandwidth in the receiver filter.

Key words: precorrelation bandwidth, spectral transformation, multipath, noise