Conditions of Informational Signal Receiving by Land Based Adaptive Antenna Arrays of Global Navigation Satellite Systems

This paper presents a methodology for assessing the possibility to receive the signals from the Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) by the receivers with the Adaptive Antenna Arrays (AAA). The methodology is based on the estimation of the steady-state Signal-to-Noise Ratio (SNR) at the AAA output. The SNR is estimated over all the possible directions of the signal source angular locations. This methodology is demonstrated by using the examples of the steady-state behavior of the widely used Side Lobe Canceller (SLC) AAA and the Linearly Constrained (LC) AAA with the beam constraint. The simulation demonstrates that the satellite signals can be received from about 30% directions of the spherical angular space in the case of a rectangular AAA with <tex xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">$2 \times {4}$</tex> antennas after the suppressing of 7 interfering signals. It is about a 10% bigger value comparing to that of the AAA in the initial nonadaptive stage. If to consider the upper hemisphere of space only, then this value is doubled. In this experiment, both of the considered AAA demonstrate about the same performance from the interference suppression and informational signals receiving points of view. This efficiency might be different in another scenario. The generic architecture and computational procedures of the AAA used in the considered simulations and computations are also presented. The procedures are based on the usage of the Recursive Least Squares adaptive filtering algorithm.