Antenna array based receivers for third generation global positioning system

Abstract

Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS), such as American GPS, European Galileo, and Russian GLONASS are crucial for applications ranging from traditional civilian aviation to autonomous vehicles. Such applications require a very accurate positioning even in complex scenarios, where multipath components are present. In order to reduce the degradation of multipath components, the third generation of GPS system adds the L1 civil (L1C) pilot code and includes a Time Multiplexed Binary Offset Carrier (TMBOC) to operate alongside the standard Coarse Acquisition (C/A). In this paper, we propose tensor based techniques for antenna array based third generation GPS receivers. As shown in this paper, the tensor based approaches, namely, Canonical Polyadic Decomposition — Generalized Eigenvalue Decomposition (CPD- GEVD) and Higher Order Singular Value Decomposition (HOSVD), combined with the L1C signaling and TMBOC modulation considerably outperform the state-of-the-art solutions.