Electronics and Control

Spreading Sequence Estimation Based on Constant Modulus Property for QPSK-DSSS Signals

  • ZHANG Huaguo ,
  • WEI Ping
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  • 1. School of Electronic Engineering, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu 611731, China;
    2. Science and Technology on Communication Information Security Control Laboratory, Jiaxing 314033, China

Received date: 2012-11-10

  Revised date: 2013-02-25

  Online published: 2013-03-01

Supported by

National Natural Science Foundation of China (61201282);Science and Technology on Communication Information Security Control Laboratory Foundation (9140C130304120C13064)

Abstract

In this paper, a spreading sequence estimation algorithm based on constant modulus property is proposed for the QPSK-DSSS signals in low signal to noise ratio and non-cooperative scenarios. First, the single-user QPSK-DSSS signal can be equivalently represented as a two-user BPSK-DSSS signal, and then the two-dimensional signal subspace spanned by the in-phase and quadrature binary spreading sequences is estimated by the eigen-decomposition of the covariance matrix. Finally, to estimate the spreading sequences accurately, its constant modulus property is exploited to cope with the unitary matrix ambiguity resulting from eigen-decomposition. The proposed algorithm is simple and easy to implement, and has a lower computational complexity compared to existing methods. And simulation results demonstrate the significant performance gains of the proposed algorithm in low signal to noise ratio situations.

Cite this article

ZHANG Huaguo , WEI Ping . Spreading Sequence Estimation Based on Constant Modulus Property for QPSK-DSSS Signals[J]. ACTA AERONAUTICAET ASTRONAUTICA SINICA, 2013 , 34(6) : 1389 -1396 . DOI: 10.7527/S1000-6893.2013.0126

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