Title
Determining system parameters for optimal performance of hybrid DS/FFH spread-spectrum
Abstract
In recent years there has been great interest in using hybrid spread-spectrum (HSS) techniques for commercial applications in addition to their inherent uses in military communications because they accommodate high data rates with high link integrity, even in the presence of significant multipath effects and interfering signals. A highly useful form of this transmission technique for many types of command, control, and sensing applications is the specific code-related combination of standard direct sequence (DS) modulation with "fast" frequency hopping (FFH), denoted hybrid DS/FFH, wherein multiple frequency hops occur within a single data-bit time. However, the optimum parameter sets for specific HSS applications have not been examined heretofore in the literature. In this paper, an optimization approach is formulated that maximizes the hybrid DS/FFH communication system performance in terms of biterror probability and solves for the resulting system design parameters. The optimization objective function is non-convex and can be solved by applying the Karush-Kuhn-Tucker conditions. Specific system design parameters of interest are the length of the DS code sequence, number of frequency-hopping channels, number of channels corrupted by wide-band jamming, and number of hops per bit. The proposed formulation takes into account the effects from wide- and partial-band jamming, multiuser interference, and/or varying degrees of Rayleigh and Rician multipath fading. Numerical results are used to illustrate the method's viability.
Year
DOI
Venue
2012
10.1109/MILCOM.2012.6415643
MILCOM
Keywords
Field
DocType
rayleigh channels,rician channels,concave programming,frequency hop communication,jamming,military communication,modulation coding,multipath channels,radiofrequency interference,spread spectrum communication,ds code sequence,ds modulation,hss techniques,karush-kuhn-tucker conditions,rayleigh multipath fading channel,rician multipath fading channel,fast frequency hopping channel,hybrid ds-ffh communication system,hybrid ds-ffh spread-spectrum techniques,interfering signals,military communications,multipath effects,multiple frequency hops,multiuser interference,noconvex optimization objective function,optimization approach,partial-band jamming,single data-bit time,standard direct sequence modulation,system design parameters,wideband jamming,hybrid spread-spectrum,rayleigh/rician fading,direct sequence,frequency hopping,multi-user interference,non-convex optimization,wide-band jamming
Multipath propagation,Computer science,Communications system,Electronic engineering,Military communications,Interference (wave propagation),Jamming,Frequency-hopping spread spectrum,Rician fading,Spread spectrum
Conference
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
2155-7578
978-1-4673-1729-0
1
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.37
5
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Xiao Ma1527.33
Olama, M.M.2173.53
teja kuruganti310.37
stephen f smith410.70
Seddik M. Djouadi521642.08