A High-Efficiency Doppler Frequency Parallel Acquisition Method Based on A-GPS

Qiongqiong Jia and Yuchen Zhao

Abstract:	Acquisition is a key step for Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) receivers to achieve positioning and other functions, and the acquisition speed directly affects the Time To First Fix (TTFF) of the receiver. The acquisition process typically involves generating local reference signals for all satellite signals and matching them with the received signals. For each satellite signal, this matching involves searching in the unknown Doppler frequency and code phase space. Traditional parallel acquisition methods can only perform parallel processing in either the Doppler frequency dimension or the code phase dimension, and still require linear search in the other dimension. To reduce the computational load and improve the acquisition efficiency, this paper proposes a high-efficiency parallel acquisition method based on A-GPS. This method utilizes the auxiliary information provided by the A-GPS base station to convert the linear search of visible star signals in Doppler frequency into a single parallel search in the Doppler search space, thereby reducing the computational load required for acquisition to 1/N of the conventional method, where Nis the total number of frequency bands searched. The paper verifies through theoretical analysis and experimental results that the proposed method can significantly improve acquisition efficiency while ensuring acquisition performance.
Published in:	Proceedings of the 2025 International Technical Meeting of The Institute of Navigation January 27 - 30, 2025 Hyatt Regency Long Beach Long Beach, California
Pages:	37 - 46
Cite this article:	Jia, Qiongqiong, Zhao, Yuchen, "A High-Efficiency Doppler Frequency Parallel Acquisition Method Based on A-GPS," Proceedings of the 2025 International Technical Meeting of The Institute of Navigation, Long Beach, California, January 2025, pp. 37-46. https://doi.org/10.33012/2025.19973
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