Investigation of the influence of dispersion distortions of wideband signals on the quality of their delay and frequency shift estimation

Evgeniy M. Lobov, Nikolai A. Kandaurov, Elizaveta O. Lobova, Vladislav I. Lipatkin,
Moscow Technical University of Communications and Informatics, Moscow, Russia,
lobov@srd.mtuci.ru

DOI: 10.36724/2664-066X-2021-7-1-11-16

SYNCHROINFO JOURNAL. Volume 7, Number 1 (2021). P. 11-16.

Abstract

The article investigates the quality of algorithms for esimate the main parameters of wideband signals in the problem of over-the-horizon radar under conditions of dispersion distortions in the Earth’s ionosphere. The boundary values of the variances of the estimates of propagation delay, frequency shift and phase, wideband phase-shift keyed signals are investigated. It is shown that dispersion distortions of the radar signal lead to a correlation between the estimates of the delay and frequency shift. The curves of the dependence of the frequency-time ratio depending on the length of the used pseudo-random sequence and the degree of dispersion distortions are obtained. Analytical curves of the Cramer-Rao lower bounds are constructed for the variances of estimates and the values of the correlation coefficients of the estimated parameters in the presence of dispersion distortions, which are confirmed by the results of simulation.

The reported study was funded by RFBR, project number 19-29-06055

Keywords: broadband signal, ionosphere channel, frequency dispersion, joint estimation, frequency-time ratio, quality of the estimation.

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