简介:Amodifiednon-coherentsequentialdetectiondecisionlogicbasedoncontinuousaccumulationtoachievefastPNcodeacquisitionisproposed.Tosimplifythedesignandanalysis,theequivalentrelationshipbetweenthelikelihoodratioofthecurrentsampleandthatofalltheprevioussamplesisdeduced.Theschemeisprovedtobeanoptimumsequentialdetectionundercertainassumptions.Becausetheaveragesamplenumber(ASN)cannotbecalculatedthroughthemethodsappliedtotheconventionalsequentialdetection,analgorithmisalsoprovided,whichcanestimateboththeprobabilitydensityfunction(pdf)andtheupperthresholeofASN.Thedesiredprobabilitiesoffalsealarmanddetection,aswellasfasterPNcodeacquisitioncomparedtotheconventionalsequentialdetectioncanbeachievedbyemployingthisstructure.Inaddition,Rayeigh-fadedreceptioncaseisalsotakenintoconsideration.Performancesoftheproposedschemesareobtained,whichsuggestthattheproposednon-coherentsequentialdetectionismoredesirable.