IF GPS Signal Simulator Development and Verification

关于GPS信号仿真和验证的一篇论文，摘要如下：

A software-based intermediate frequency (IF) GPS signal simulator for the L1 C/A code

signal is developed and verified in this thesis. The signal simulator is implemented in

MATLAB with some key functions coded in C to accelerate speed of operation. A

mathematical signal model is developed that expresses the digitized IF GPS signal as a

function of various errors during propagation, such as satellite clock error, ionosphere

error, and troposphere error; and user defined parameters, such as date and GPS time,

user trajectory, expected C/N0, noise density, intermediate frequency, sampling rate,

front-end bandwidth, and quantization bit. The simulator is verified by comparing the

simulated signal with the hardware-collected IF GPS signal in the time, frequency,

correlation and position domains.

Partially for the simulator verification purpose, a software GPS receiver was developed

and verified, which was used to process the simulated signal to get the pseudorange and

carrier phase measurements. The signal acquisition and tracking techniques originally

studied and verified in this thesis were used for the first generation software receiver

developed by the PLAN group of the Department of Geomatics Engineering. The

receiver consists of the following modules: signal acquisition, signal tracking, bit

synchronization, sub-frame synchronization and the navigation solution. It is verified by

using a set of real GPS signal measurements collected by a commercial hardware front-

end and comparing the tracking results and navigation solution with the corresponding

results of a hardware GPS receiver.