8:30 - 12:00, Monday, String 3
310A: Systems, Signals and Receiver Signal Processing I:
Modernized and New Systems & Signals

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For those interested in developing their expertise and obtaining a sound perspective on the characteristics of GPS and other GNSS systems and signals. This session provides a detailed perspective of upcoming changes in Global Navigation Satellite Systems, and begins the description of existing, modernized, and new signals that will be available for use in satellite positioning, navigation and timing.

Dr. John Betz
MITRE

Radionavigation Satellite System (RNSS) Overview and Concepts
• Basics of RNSS
• System and Signal Fundamentals and Tradeoffs
• System Engineering Fundamentals

Present and Future GNSS’s:
Overview of System Architectures and Capabilities
• Global Positioning System (GPS) of the United States
• Modernized GPS, New Capabilities
• GPS Satellite Based Augmentation Systems (SBAS)
• Global Navigation Satellite System (GLONASS) of the Russian Federation
• GALILEO System of the European Community
• Quazi-Zenith Satellite System (QZSS) of Japan
• Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System (IRNSS)
• COMPASS China’s Navigation Satellite System

Level: Knowledge of the GPS system operation is assumed, as well as familiarity with basic signal processing and engineering analysis methods. Proceed to 310B-D to complete the series.

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1:30 - 5:00, Monday, String 3
310B: Systems, Signals and Receiver Signal Processing II:
Modernized and New Systems & Signals

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This session continues the descriptions of existing, modernized, and new signals that will be available for use in satellite positioning, navigation and timing, completing and summarizing GPS, and addressing GLONASS, QZSS, and Galileo. Succinct summaries and comparisons of the different signals are provided.

 Dr. Betz

GPS Signals: Part 2
• Military (M)-code signal
• L5 signals
• L1C signals
• Summary of GPS Signal Characteristics
• GPS SBAS signals

GLONASS and QZSS Signals
• GLONASS Services
• GLONASS Standard Accuracy signal
• GLONASS Precision Accuracy signal
• QZSS services
• QZSS signals

GALILEO Signals
• Overview of planned GALILEO services
• L1 open signals
• L1 Public Regulated Service (PRS) signals
• E6 Commercial Service (CS) signals
• E6 Public Regulated Service (PRS) signals
• E5 signals
• Summary of GALILEO Signal Characteristics

Level: Knowledge of the GPS system operation is assumed, as well as familiarity with basic signal processing and engineering analysis methods and the concepts presented in 310A. Proceed to 310C-D to complete the series.

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8:30 - 12:00, Tuesday, String 3
310C: Systems, Signals and Receiver Signal Processing III:
Advanced Receiver Processing & Performance

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  Dr. Betz

This session builds on the previous sessions’ descriptions of modernized and new GNSS and signals. These new signals have new characteristics that provide advantages over existing signals, while enabling new processing strategies and approaches. This session describes some of the advanced processing techniques that provide particular benefits with new and modernized signals. It emphasizes how the combination of advanced signal designs and advanced processing techniques enable improved performance over what can be obtained with today’s signals.

Overview of Receiver Processing
• Receiver introduction
• Bandlimiting, sampling, and quantization
• Fundamentals of receiver signal processing

Recovering and Using Signal Components
• Time-multiplexed pilot and data components
• Phase-multiplexed pilot and data components
• Galileo E1 signal processing
• AltBOC processing

Initial Synchronization of BOC Spreading Modulations
• Algorithm options and tradeoffs for initial synchronization
• Performance assessment and examples

Level: Knowledge of the GPS system operation is assumed, as well as familiarity with basic signal processing and engineering analysis methods and the concepts presented in 310A-B. (Proceed to 310D to complete the series.)

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1:30 - 5:00, Tuesday, String 3
310D: Systems, Signals and Receiver Signal Processing IV:
Advanced Receiver Processing & Performance

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This session continues the description of the advanced processing techniques used obtain the benefits of new and modernized signals. It continues to emphasize how the combination of advanced signal designs and advanced processing techniques enable improved performance over what can be obtained with today’s signals.

 Dr. Betz

Code Tracking of BOC Spreading Modulations
• RMS bandwidth and code tracking
• Review of code tracking loops and discriminators
• Code tracking performance

Using Pilot Components
• Phase-locked loop benefits
• Increasing receiver sensitivity

Case Study:
Receiver Processing of Galileo E1 OS and GPS L1C Signals
• Initial synchronization processing
• Code tracking
• Carrier tracking
• Data message processing
• Summary; Questions and Answers

Level: Knowledge of the GPS system operation is assumed, as well as familiarity with basic signal processing and engineering analysis methods and the concepts presented in 310A-C.