Date of Award
1999
Document Type
Thesis
Publication Status
Version of Record
Submission Date
October 2026
Thesis/Dissertation Advisor [Chair]
Aalo, Valentine A.
Abstract
In this thesis, we study the effect of Rice fading on the performance of Global Positioning System (GPS) receivers. The field-theoretic foundation of pseudo-random-noise (PRN) codes, their implementation, and their use in generating unique navigation messages in the GPS receiver is reviewed. The processing of the spread-spectrum signals within the digital delay locked loop (DDLL) in the receiver is also considered. In particular, we derive numerical expressions that can be easily evaluated for the probability error and the mean-time to lose-lock, for a DDL operating in an additive white gaussian noise (AWGN) channel in the presence of Rice fading. The results obtained generalize results in the literature for the Rayleigh fading environment.
Extent
132 p.
Recommended Citation
Jodoin, Claude., "Detection of direct-sequence spread-spectrum signals in a multipath fading environment" (1999). Electronic Theses and Dissertations 1990 - 1999. 1433.
https://digitalcommons.fau.edu/etd_general_4/1433
Identifier
FADT15712
Comments
College of Engineering and Computer Science|FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection|Thesis (M.S.E.E.)--Florida Atlantic University, 1999.|College of Engineering and Computer Science