Architecture of a Real-Time Safety of Life Receiver

M. Cuntz, L.A. Greda, M. Heckler, A. Konovaltsev, M. Meurer, L. Kurz, G. Kappen, T.G. Noll

Abstract:	It is well known that interference is a serious threat for the new Galileo services especially in the E5 and E6 bands, as it has already been pointed out in the open literature. Especially for the Safety-of–Life (SoL) applications high power pulsed radars are a major concern. To cope with such interference it is essential for the development of a SoL receiver to consider the impact of interference on each part of the receiving chain. For this reason a new project has been launched by the Institute of Communications and Navigation of the German Aerospace Center (DLR). The aim of this project is to perform the necessary pre-development research as well as to develop, build and demonstrate an integrated SoL receiver system, which is robust against interference and multipath effects. Since array antennas with digital beamforming offer a very high potential for suppression of interference and multipath signals, the integration of an array antenna has been included in the receiver design from the early beginning of the project.
Published in:	Proceedings of the 22nd International Technical Meeting of the Satellite Division of The Institute of Navigation (ION GNSS 2009) September 22 - 25, 2009 Savannah International Convention Center Savannah, GA
Pages:	402 - 412
Cite this article:	Cuntz, M., Greda, L.A., Heckler, M., Konovaltsev, A., Meurer, M., Kurz, L., Kappen, G., Noll, T.G., "Architecture of a Real-Time Safety of Life Receiver," Proceedings of the 22nd International Technical Meeting of the Satellite Division of The Institute of Navigation (ION GNSS 2009), Savannah, GA, September 2009, pp. 402-412.
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