The Impact of the Galileo Signal in Space in the Acquisition System

This paper is about the impact of the Galileo signal in space on the Acquisition system of a GNSS receiver. The Galileo signal definition presents features allowing improvements of the acquisition and tracking performance, but these differences with respect to GPS must be taken into account in the receiver design phase. In this paper the classical acquisition blocks designed for GPS will be revisited, from a statistical point of view and in terms of performance, looking to the issues that longer codes, BOC modulations and pilot channels will introduce on the Galileo Open Service (OS)

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