electronics Article Constant Envelope Multiplexing of Multi-Carrier DSSS Signals Considering Sub-Carrier Frequency Constraint Xiaofei Chen 1,2,3,*, Xiaochun Lu 1,2,3, Xue Wang 1,2,3,* , Jing Ke 1,2,3 and Xia Guo 1 1 National Time Service Center, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xi’an 710600, China;
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[email protected] (X.W.) Abstract: With the development of global navigation satellite systems (GNSS), multiple signals mod- ulated on different sub-carriers are needed to provide various services and to ensure compatibility with previous signals. As an effective method to provide diversified signals without introducing the nonlinear distortion of High Power Amplifier (HPA), the multi-carrier constant envelope mul- tiplexing is widely used in satellite navigation systems. However, the previous method does not consider the influence of sub-carrier frequency constraint on the multiplexing signal, which may lead to signal power leakage. By determining the signal states probability according to the sub-carrier frequency constraint and solving the orthogonal bases according to the homogeneous equations, this article proposed multi-carrier constant envelope multiplexing methods based on probability and homogeneous equations. The analysis results show that the methods can multiplex multi-carrier signals without power leakage, thereby reducing the impact on signal ranging performance.