A Joint Time Multiplex Receiver for UMTS and Galileo

Currently the future satellite navigation system Galileo and the third generation mobile communications system UMTS are on their way to the market in Europe. cdma2000 is under development in the USA and, furthermore, a new civil GPS signal in L2 band and the new frequency band L5 are added. In a hybrid receiver for satellite navigation and mobile radio communications, the possibility of an additional usage of the mobile radio signals for navigation purposes could also be a remedy to one problem of satellite navigation systems, which is the reduced location accuracy inside of buildings and urban canyons. A hybrid receiver with two fully separated receiver branches would lead to an increased bill of material and to increased power consumption in the receiver. This paper, therefore, introduces a hybrid receiver capable of evaluating Galileo/GPS as well as UMTS/cdma2000 signals with reduced computational efforts. Furthermore, the proposed structure performs a constructive superposition of the incoming paths to improve location accuracy.