Spread-Spectrum Code Acquisition in the Presence of Cell Correlation

A new special function, called the modified generalized Q (MGQ) function, is here defined to analytically express the performance of the pseudonoise code acquisition based on matched filter correlators. In the considered case of two cells per chip, no convergent infinite series have been found in the open literature expressing the probabilities of false alarm and detection. The performance is analyzed in terms of mean acquisition time for signal-to-noise ratios of practical interest