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Study on the pre-processors to improve the generalized-cross-correlation based time delay estimation under the narrow band single tone signal environments

협대역 단일 주파수 신호 환경에서 일반 상호 상관 시간 지연 추정 향상을 위한 전처리기 연구

  • Received : 2020.03.06
  • Accepted : 2020.03.30
  • Published : 2020.05.31
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Abstract

There are several methods for the time delay estimation between signals to two receivers. Among these methods, Generalized Cross Correlation (GCC), which estimates the relative delay from the cross-correlation between the different signals at the two receivers, is a traditionally well-known method. However, when using a narrow band Continuous Wave (CW) signal, the GCC method degrades the estimation performance from relatively higher signal-to-noise ratio than when using a wideband signal. To improve this phenomenon, this paper examines four different pre-processors for GCC using narrow band single frequency signals. Simulation shows that the performance gain of the preprocessed GCC is up to 9 dB for a 100 msec CW signal as well as up to 4 dB for a 1 s CW signal.

두 개 수신기에 도래한 신호 간의 시간 지연을 추정 방법에는 여러 가지가 존재한다. 그 중에서 두 수신기에 입력되는 서로 다른 신호간의 상호 상관으로부터 상대적인 지연을 추정하는 Generalized Cross Correlation(GCC) 방법은 안정적인 성능을 내는 전통적으로 유명한 방법이다. 그러나 GCC 방법은 단일 주파수 신호를 사용하는 경우에 일반 광대역 신호를 사용하였을 때보다 더 높은 신호 대 잡음비에서부터 추정 성능이 저하된다. 본 논문에서는 이 같은 현상을 개선하기 위해서 협대역 단일 주파수 신호에 대해 GCC를 위한 네 가지 전 처리기를 살펴본다. 시뮬레이션을 통해서 처리기를 사용하였을 때가 전 처리기를 전혀 사용하지 않았을 때보다 100 msec 길이 송신 신호에 대해서 최대 9 dB의 성능 이득을 얻었고, 1 s 길이 송신 신호에 대해서는 최대 4 dB의 성능 이득이 있음을 보인다.

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