Experimental assessment of Distance Measuring Equipment and Tactical Air Navigation interference on GPS L5 and Galileo E5a frequency bands

Author

Musumeci, Luciano ; Samson, Jonathan ; Dovis, Fabio

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. & Telecommun., Politec. di Torino, Turin, Italy

fYear

2012

fDate

5-7 Dec. 2012

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

8

Abstract

This paper will provide an experimental assessment of Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) receiver operations under interference generated by other Aeronautical Radio Navigation Systems (ARNS) such as Distance Measuring Equipment (DME) and Tactical Air Navigation (TACAN) transmitting within the GPS L5 and Galileo E5a frequency bands. In detail, results in terms of C/N₀ degradation and error on the pseudorange measurements will be presented. Afterwards, an innovative interference mitigation technique will be introduced and its benefits against the aviation interference environment considered, will be assessed at receiver level by means of software implementation and simulation. Finally, a quick analysis of the potential DME/TACAN interference impact on GNSS receiver in demodulating the Space Based Augmentation System (SBAS) navigation messages, will be described.

Keywords

Global Positioning System; distance measurement; interference suppression; military communication; radio receivers; radiofrequency interference; ARNS; DME-TACAN interference; GNSS receiver operations; GPS L5; Galileo E5a frequency bands; SBAS navigation messages demodulation; aeronautical radio navigation systems; aviation interference environment; distance measuring equipment; global navigation satellite system receiver operations; innovative interference mitigation technique; interference generation; pseudorange measurements; receiver level; software implementation; space-based augmentation system navigation message demodulation; tactical air navigation interference; Blanking; Degradation; Global Navigation Satellite Systems; Global Positioning System; Interference; Noise; Receivers;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Satellite Navigation Technologies and European Workshop on GNSS Signals and Signal Processing, (NAVITEC), 2012 6th ESA Workshop on

Conference_Location

Noordwijk

ISSN

2325-5439

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-2010-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/NAVITEC.2012.6423064

Filename

6423064