Method and device for receiving an ADS-B message via a satellite

    公开(公告)号:US11463157B2

    公开(公告)日:2022-10-04

    申请号:US17618736

    申请日:2020-06-10

    Abstract: A method for receiving an ADS-B message is disclosed including a synchronisation phase for detecting the start of the message and a decoding phase for recovering a bit stream corresponding to a block of data in the message. The synchronisation phase is based on determining a sequence of log-likelihood ratios having the greatest likelihood of corresponding to a sequence of symbols expected from a preamble of the message. Each log-likelihood ratio corresponds to a ratio between the respective probabilities that a symbol of the signal received corresponds to one of two possible values for a symbol. The decoding phase applies a belief propagation algorithm to a sequence of log-likelihood ratios respectively associated with the symbols in the block of data in the message, with an optimised parity matrix of the cyclic redundancy code of the message.

    Method and system for detecting useful signals with significant respective frequency drifts in an overall signal

    公开(公告)号:US10554291B2

    公开(公告)日:2020-02-04

    申请号:US16323750

    申请日:2017-07-27

    Abstract: A method for detecting useful signals in an overall signal. Each useful signal may be affected with a frequency drift. In the detection phase, frequency spectra for detecting the overall signal for multiple detection time windows are calculated and useful signals according to the detection frequency spectra are detected. In the estimation phase, for each useful signal detected: the frequency of the overall signal for multiple frequency drift values is reset. In the estimation phase, for each useful signal detected, a frequency spectrum is calculated for the estimation of the overall signal for each frequency drift value over an estimation time window having the useful signal detected and of a duration higher than the detection time window. In the estimation phase, for each useful signal detected, the frequency drift is estimated affecting the useful signal detected according to the estimation frequency spectra.

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