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Anti-interference Methods using Vector-based GPS Receiver Mode

  • Viet, Hoan Nguyen (Dept. of IT Convergence and Application Engineering, Pukyong National University) ;
  • Lee, Suk-Hwan (Dept. of Information Security, Tongmyong University) ;
  • Kwon, Ki-Ryong (Dept. of IT Convergence and Application Engineering, Pukyong National University)
  • Received : 2017.11.06
  • Accepted : 2018.04.14
  • Published : 2018.05.31

Abstract

The Global Positioning System (GPS) has become popular and widely used in many fields from military to civilian applications. However, GPS signals are suffered from interference due to its weak signal over wireless channel. There are many types of interference, such as jamming, blocking multipath, and spoofing, which can mislead the operation of GPS receiver. In this paper, vector-based tracking loop model with integrity check is proposed to detect and mitigate the harmful effect of interference on GPS receiver operation. The suggested methods are implemented in the tracking loop of GPS receiver. As a first method, integrity check with carrier-to-noise ratio (C/No) monitoring technique is applied to detect the presence of interference and prevent contaminated channels out of tracking channels to calculate position. As a second method, a vector-based tracking loop using Extended Kalman Filter with adaptive noise covariance according to C/No monitoring results. The proposed methods have been implemented on simulated dataset. The results demonstrates that the suggested methods significantly mitigate interference of Additive White Gaussian Noise (AWGN) and improve position calculation by 44%.

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