Mixing Position Estimation of AIS Mixed Signal Based on Double-Sliding Window Method

Abstract

With the development of the shipping industry, Automatic Identification System (AIS) used for ship communication becomes more and more important. Aiming at the problem of mixing position estimation of AIS mixed signals, this paper improves the double sliding-window detection algorithm to estimate the mixing position of miscellaneous signals accurately. There is a significant difference in energy between the aliased and unmixed parts of the mixed signal. When unmixed parts just enter one of the energy detections windows, the decision function reaches its peak value by establishing a proper decision function, that is to say, the position of the beginning and end of the mixing part is estimated. The simulation results show that the proposed algorithm which is compared with the frequency and amplitude detection algorithm can achieve the mixing position estimation with low complexity and strong robustness, and the estimation accuracy is close to the Cramer-Rao Bound under the condition of the high signal-to-noise ratio.