Simulation and Performance Evaluations of the New GPS L5 and L1 Signals

Abstract EN

The Global Positioning System (GPS) signals are used for navigation and positioning purposes by a diverse set of users.

As a part of GPS modernization effort L5 has been recently introduced for better accuracy and availability service.

This paper intends to study and simulate the GPS L1/L5 signal in order to fulfill the following two objectives.

The first aim is to point out some important features/differences between current L1 (whose characteristics have been fairly known and documented) and new L5 GPS signal for performance evaluation purpose.

The second aim is to facilitate receiver development, which will be designed and assembled later for the actual acquisition of GPS data.

Simulation has been carried out for evaluation of correlation properties and link budgeting for both L1 and L5 signals.

The necessary programming is performed in Matlab.