Adaptive acquisition of PN code in multipath fading mobile channels

The adaptive acquisition processor (AAP), which controls false alarms and reduces miss detection of multipath signals by estimating the threshold level after censoring some highest samples in the sliding window, was introduced by the present author. In addition, an AAP was analysed in a single path situation. Here, the detection performance of an AAP in multipath situations, which may exist in the sliding window, is investigated. Results show that the AAP has good performance if the number of excision samples, Ne, is greater than or equal to the number of multipath signals in the window