Performance Analyses of Fast Frequency Hopping Spread Spectrum and Jamming Systems

Abid Yahya¹, Othman Sidek1, and Junita Mohamad-Saleh²

¹Collaborative MicroElectronic Design Excellence Center, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Malaysia

²School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Malaysia

Abstract: As technology becomes increasingly able to meet the requirements, interest in faster, noncoherent, frequency hopping rates to reduce the jamming of communication has heightened. The focus of this paper is on the performance of the fast frequency hopping spread spectrum system operating in the presence of partial band noise jamming. In this paper we consider a communication system that transmits binary data sequence or M frequency shift keying over a channel. With non-coherent detection, the MFSK tones on a given hop must be separated in frequency by an integer multiple of chip rate to provide orthogonality. The worst case partial-band noise jammer chooses fraction () to maximize the bit error probability (Pb) for a given M and signal to noise ratio. It has been observed from the simulation results that increases with K, illustrating the effectiveness of worst-case jamming () against FH/MFSK signals at typical operating points. It may be noted that   decreases as Eb/NJ gets larger. <!--[if !vml]--><!--[endif]--> <!--[if !vml]--><!--[endif]--> <!--[if !vml]--><!--[endif]-->

Keywords: Frequency hopping spread spectrum, interference, partial band noise jamming.

Received August 23, 2006; accepted February 19, 2007