Open Access Research Article

A Time-Domain Fingerprint for BOC Signals

B Muth1*, P Oonincx1 and C Tiberius2

Author Affiliations

1 Faculty of Military Sciences, Netherlands Defence Academy, Het Nieuwe Diep 8, AC Den Helder 1781, The Netherlands

2 Department of Earth Observation and Space Systems (DEOS), Delft University of Technology, Kluyverweg 1, HS Delft 2629, The Netherlands

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EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing 2007, 2007:056104  doi:10.1155/2007/56104


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Received: 3 November 2006
Accepted: 10 April 2007
Published: 25 July 2007

© 2007 Muth et al.

This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Binary offset carrier (BOC) describes a class of spread-spectrum modulations recently introduced for the next generation of global navigation satellite systems (GNSSs). The design strategies of these BOC signals have so far focused on the spectral properties of these signals. In this paper, we present a time-domain fingerprint for each BOC signal given by a unique histogram of counted time elapses between phase jumps in the signal. This feature can be used for classification and identification of BOC-modulated signals with unknown parameters.

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