Spreading signal generating method, generating device, receiving method and receiving device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10027371-B2
Application number	US-201414436456-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Dec 4, 2014
Priority date	Dec 6, 2013
Publication date	Jul 17, 2018
Grant date	Jul 17, 2018

Abstract

The application relates to a spreading signal generating method, generating device, receiving method and receiving device. The spreading signal generating method comprises: generating a first spreading signal component and a second spreading signal component, wherein the first spreading signal component and the second spreading signal component each comprise a spreading code and a binary subcarrier, the spreading code of the first spreading signal component is the same as the spreading code of the second spreading signal component, the binary subcarrier of the first spreading signal component is different from the binary subcarrier of the second spreading signal component; and modulating the first spreading signal component and the second spreading signal component with radio frequency (RF) carriers so as to generate the spreading signal, where a phase of RF carrier for modulating the first spreading signal component is different from a phase of RF carrier for modulating the second spreading signal component.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A spreading signal generating method, comprising:
using a spreading signal component generating circuit to generate a first spreading signal component and a second spreading signal component, wherein the first spreading signal component and the second spreading signal component each includes a spreading code and a binary subcarrier, wherein the spreading code of the first spreading signal component is the same as the spreading code of the second spreading signal component, and the binary subcarrier of the first spreading signal component is different from the binary subcarrier of the second spreading signal component; and
modulating the first spreading signal component with a first RF carrier and the second spreading signal component with a second RF carrier so as to generate a unified spreading signal, wherein a phase of the first RF carrier is different from a phase of the second RF carrier, wherein a phase difference between the phase of the first RF carrier and the phase of the second RF carrier is set to adjust a cross-correlation component between the first spreading signal component and the second spreading signal component in the time domain.

2. The method as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the binary subcarrier is a binary coded symbol BCS subcarrier.

3. The method as claimed in claim 2 , the method further comprising:
setting the phase difference θ as ±π/2 so as to adjust the cross-correlation component between the first spreading signal component S 1 and the second spreading signal component S 2 in the time domain as being zero.

4. The method as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the binary subcarrier is a binary offset carrier BOC subcarrier.

5. The method as claimed in claim 4 , the method further comprising:
setting the phase difference θ as ±π/2 so as to adjust the cross-correlation component between the first spreading signal component S 1 and the second spreading signal component S 2 in the time domain as being zero.

6. The method as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the unified spreading signal generated is:
S RF =S 1 ·cos(ω RF t )+ S 2 ·cos(ω RF +θ)

S 1 =A 1 ·c ( t )· q 1 ( t )· d ( t )

S 2 =A 2 ·C ( t )· q 2 ( t )· d ( t ),

where S RF stands for the spreading signal, S 1 and S 2 stand for the first spreading signal component and the second spreading signal component respectively, A 1 and A 2 stand for an amplitude of S 1 and an amplitude of S 2 respectively, c(t) stands for the spreading code of S 1 and S 2 , q 1 (t) and q 2 (t) stand for the binary subcarrier of S 1 and the binary subcarrier of S 2 respectively, d(t) stands for a data message, ω RF stands for an angular frequency of RF carrier, and θ stands for a phase difference between the phase of the first RF carrier and the phase of the second RF carrier.

7. The method as claimed in claim 6 , further comprising:
determining the value of the phase difference θ based on a demodulation performance index and a tracking performance index as required at the receiving of the spreading signal.

8. The method as claimed in claim 6 , further comprising:
setting the phase difference θ as ±π/2 so as to adjust the cross-correlation component between the first spreading signal component S 1 and the second spreading signal component S 2 as being zero.

9. A spreading signal generating device, comprising:
a spreading signal component generating circuit, wherein the spreading signal component generating circuit is operable to generate a first spreading signal component and a second spreading signal component, wherein the first spreading signal component and the second spreading signal component each includes a spreading code and a binary subcarrier, wherein the spreading code of the first spreading signal component is the same as the spreading code of the second spreading signal component, and the binary subcarrier of the first spreading signal component is different from the binary subcarrier of the second spreading signal component; and
a spreading signal generating circuit, wherein the spreading signal generating circuit is operable to modulate the first spreading signal component with a first RF carrier and the second spreading signal component with a second RF carrier so as to generate a unified spreading signal, wherein a phase of the first RF carrier is different from a phase of the second RF carrier, wherein a phase difference between the phase of the first RF carrier and the phase of the second RF carrier is set to adjust a cross-correlation component between the first spreading signal component and the second spreading signal component in the time domain.

10. The generating device as claimed in claim 9 , wherein the spreading signal generating circuit further comprises:
a phase difference setting module operable to set the phase difference so as to adjust a cross-correlation component between the first spreading signal component S 1 and the second spreading signal component S 2 in the time domain; and
a signal generating module operable to generate the unified spreading signal S RF based on the phase difference θ set by the phase difference setting module.

11. The generating device as claimed in claim 10 , wherein the phase difference setting module is operable to determine the value of the phase difference θ based on a demodulation performance index and a tracking performance index as required at the receiving of the unified spreading signal.

12. The device as claimed in claim 9 , wherein the spreading signal generating circuit generates the unified spreading signal consistent with the following equations:
S RF =S 1 ·cos(ω RF t )+ S 2 ·cos(ω RF t +θ)

S 1 =A 1 ·c ( t )· q 1 ( t )· d ( t )

S 2 =A 2 ·c ( t )· q 2 ( t )· d ( t ),

where S RF stands for the spreading signal, S 1 and S 2 stand for the first spreading signal component and the second spreading signal component respectively, A 1 and A 2 stand for an amplitude of S 1 and an amplitude of S 2 respectively, c(t) stand for the spreading code of S 1 and S 2 , q 1 (t) and q 2 (t) stand for the binary subcarrier of S 1 and the binary subcarrier of S 2 respectively, d(t) stand for a data message, ω RF stand for an angular frequency of RF carrier, and θ stands for a phase difference between the phase of the first RF carrier and the phase of second RF carrier.

Assignees

• Univ Tsinghua

Inventors

• Yao Zheng
• Lu Mingquan

Classifications

• G01S19/30

  code related {(G01S19/246 takes precedence)} · CPC title

• H04L27/22

  Demodulator circuits; Receiver circuits · CPC title

• H04B1/7087 Primary

  Carrier synchronisation aspects · CPC title

• G01S19/02

  Details of the space or ground control segments · CPC title

• G01S1/04 Primary

  Details · CPC title