Advances in statistical modeling of ionospheric scintillation

• Ano de defesa: 2013
• Autor(a) principal: Alison de Oliveira Moraes
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: eng
• Instituição de defesa: Instituto Tecnológico de Aeronáutica
• Palavras-chave em Português: Receptores; Sistema de posicionamento global; Cintilação; Propagação ionosférica; Análise estatística; Canais (transmissão de dados); Processamento de sinais; Telecomunicações; Engenharia eletrônica
• Link de acesso: http://www.bd.bibl.ita.br/tde_busca/arquivo.php?codArquivo=2240

Ionospheric scintillation is a phenomenon that occurs daily, especially around the equatorial region, during the summer solstice after the sunset, affecting radio signals that propagate through the ionosphere. Depending on the temporal and spatial situation, ionospheric scintillation can represent a problem in the availability and precision of the Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS). This work is concerned with the statistical modeling and evaluation of the impact of amplitude scintillation on the performance of Global Positioning System (GPS) receivers. In this work the use of ?-? model is proposed to represent the scintillation phenomenon affecting GPS receiver performance. The use of ?-? is also extended for second order statistics. Such a model is compared to a set of experimental data obtained in São José dos Campos, near the peak of the Equatorial Anomaly, during high solar fux conditions, between the months of December 2001 and January 2002. The results obtained with the proposed ?-? model fitted quite well with the experimental data and performed better than two of the widely used models, namely Nakagami-m and Rice. The proposed model requires the estimation of two parameters, instead of a single one used by the models of Nakagami-m and Rice. To facilitate its use, for the situations in which no set of experimental data is available, this work presents parameterized equations for calculating the two parameters required by the ?-? model. Based upon the fact that the proposed model performs better than the one proposed by Nakagami-m, the present investigation derives a model to estimate the carrier and code tracking loop errors on GPS receivers. Such a model not only performed better than Nakagami';s, but also is valid for a wider range of scintillation.