关键词: 软扩频信号, 多径信道, 二次功率谱, 伪码周期, 盲估计

Abstract: To estimate pseudo code period of multipath tamed spread spectrum signal, a blind method based on power spectrum reprocessing was proposed to estimate the pseudo code period of the tamed spread spectrum signal in multipath channel. Firstly, the general single path tamed spectrum signal was extended to multipath model. Then, the primary power spectrum of the signal was calculated on the basis of the tamed spread spectrum signal model in multipath environment. Next, the obtained primary power spectrum was used as the input signal to calculate the secondary power spectrum of the signal, and the theoretical analyses showed that the peak line of the secondary power spectrum of the signal would appear in the integral multiple of the pseudo code period. Finally, the pseudo code period of the tamed spread spectrum signal could be estimated by detecting the spacing between the peak spectrum lines. In the comparison experiments with time domain correlation method, the Signal-to-Noise Ratio (SNR) of the proposed method was improved by about 1 dB and 2 dB when the correct rate of pseudo code period was 100% and the length of pseudo code sequence was 127 bits and 255 bits, and the average accumulation times of the proposed method was less under the same condition. The experimental results show that the proposed method not only has less computational complexity, but also improves the estimation correct rate.

Key words: tamed spread spectrum signal, multipath channel, secondary power spectrum, pseudo code period, blind estimation