Method for identifying interfering transmitters from a plurality of known satellite transmitters

1. A method for identifying interfering transmitters from among a plurality of known satellite transmitters, wherein a signal is determined for each satellite transmitter present via equidistant sampling of each respective signal strength and a comparison parameter for each satellite transmitter is determined for said signal, the method comprising:

a) subdividing the signal into a number of succeeding signal periods of predefined equal length;

b) mapping each sample value via a constant and monotonically increasing or decreasing normalization function to a normalized sample value within a predefined normal interval;

c) producing a sampling vector having first and second sampling elements for each normalized sample value, a first element of said sampling vector corresponding to the normalized sample value and a second element of said sampling vector being selected such that a vector norm applied to the sampling vector yields a value of 1;

d) entering the first and second sampling elements of the sampling vectors into a signal matrix, elements originating from the same signal period each being entered in the same row of the signal matrix;

e) arranging first and second sampling elements of sampling vectors which were each determined at a specific sampling time instant in relation to sample values determined at a start of a respective signal period in the same column of the signal matrix, separate columns being provided for each of the first and second sampling element;

f) normalizing elements of the signal matrix such that an application of a predefined vector norm to the signal matrix always yields the value of 1, or g) performing a singular value decomposition of the signal matrix into a product representation in accordance with the following relationship:

M=USV † ,

where U and V † are each unitary matrices, M being the signal matrix and S being a matrix; and

h) selecting at least one row of a unitary matrix V † determined for the respective signal as a comparison parameter and assigning the at least one row to the respective signal to prepare the respective signal for the comparison parameter; wherein upon detection of an interfering transmitter for the signal emitted by the interfering transmitter, an interference signal is determined in each case via equidistant sampling for each respective signal strength and the comparison parameter is likewise determined for said interference signal, for the determination of the comparison parameter for the respective signal and the comparison parameter for the interference signal, each of which is performed in accordance with steps a) to h); and wherein the comparison parameter for the interfering transmitter is compared with each of the comparison parameters for the transmitters and, in each case, a dimension value is held available which indicates a degree to which the signal of the interfering transmitter matches the signal of the respective satellite transmitter.

2. The method as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the first and second sampling elements of sampling vectors are each ordered into columns of the signal matrix such that:

first elements originating from an earlier sampling time instant are each arranged into columns having a smaller column index than first elements originating from a later sampling time instant; and second elements originating from an earlier sampling time instant are each arranged into columns having a smaller column index than second elements originating from the later sampling time instant.

3. The method as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the first and second sampling elements of sampling vectors are each ordered into columns of the signal matrix such that, in the signal matrix having n=2l columns one of:

(i) all of the first elements are arranged into columns 1 to l of the signal matrix and all of the second elements are arranged into columns l+1 to 2l of the signal matrix, and

(ii) the first and second elements created at the same i-th sampling time instant are each arranged in the columns 2i−1 and 2l of the signal matrix, where 1≦i≦l, and n, i and l are integers.

4. The method as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the signal is assigned at least one row of the unitary matrix V † as the comparison parameter.

5. The method as claimed in claim 4 , wherein the signal is assigned to the second row of the unitary matrix V † .

6. The method as claimed in claim 1 , further comprising:

determining a maximum value and a minimum value of the sample values of the respective signal to map the respective signal to a normal interval;

wherein, for the maximum sample value, the first element is set to a maximum interval value, and the second element is set to a value of 0; and wherein, for the minimum sample value, the second element is set to the maximum interval value, and the first element is set to the value 0.

7. The method as claimed in claim 6 , wherein the maximum interval value is the value 1.

8. The method as claimed in claim 1 , wherein an entirety of the signal matrix is multiplied by a weighting factor w which corresponds to a reciprocal of a root of half of a number of matrix elements.

9. The method as claimed in claim 8 , wherein the weighting factor w is chosen in accordance with the relationship:

W

=

2

mn

,

where m corresponds to a number of rows and n corresponds to a number of columns of the signal matrix.

10. The method as claimed in claim 1 , wherein sampling time instants and equidistant sampling intervals are predefined in advance within the signal period; wherein an interpolation function having a signal shape predefined by signal values and the sampling time instants and equidistant sampling intervals is determined for the signal; and wherein the comparison parameter for the signal is determined based on a further signal which is determined by sampling the interpolation function at the predefined sampling time instants.

11. The method as claimed in claim 1 , wherein one day or time period equivalent to the one day is used in each case as a duration of the signal periods.

12. The method as claimed in claim 1 , wherein a satellite transmitter for which a dimension value has been determined indicating a great degree of agreement is identified as the interfering transmitter.

13. The method as claimed in claim 12 , wherein the dimension value indicates a greatest degree of agreement.

14. The method as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the predefined normal interval is between 0 and 1.

15. A non-transitory data medium having a stored program, which when executed, performs the method as claimed in claim 1 .