An Innovative Data Demodulation Technique for Galileo AltBOC Receivers

Davide Margaria, Fabio Dovis, Paolo Mulassano

Electronics Department, Politecnico di Torino, Italy.
Navigation Lab, Istituto Superiore Mario Boella, Italy.

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Abstract

Abstract. This paper describes an innovative solution that can be used to recover the navigation data from Alternative Binary Offset Carrier (AltBOC) modulated signals, a modulation scheme foreseen for the Galileo satellite navigation system to transmit four channels in the E5 band (1164-1215 MHz). In this paper a novel data demodulation approach, called Side-Band Translator (SBT), suitable to coherent dual band AltBOC receiver architectures, is introduced and validated from the analytical point of view. This patented approach is based on the idea to perform a “translation operation”: this means that the two separate in-phase components of the AltBOC signal, containing the navigation data, are recovered from the received signal with a proper signal processing, moving the information from the side lobes of the AltBOC spectrum to the baseband. The innovative aspects of this demodulation technique are pointed out in the paper, highlighting the main advantages with respect to already proposed techniques.

Keywords

Data demodulation, Side-Band Translator, E5, AltBOC, Galileo.

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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