Robust Satellite Communications Under Hostile Interference

Abstract

Antifragility refers to systems that increase in capability, resilience, or robustness as a result of mistakes, faults, attacks, or failures. An antifragile system is fundamentally different from one that is resilient (able to recover from failure) and robust (able to resist failure). We apply the concept of antifragility to wireless communications where the system stressor is a jammer that intends to disrupt the underlying communications. Through a novel strategy, we exploit the communications jammer, providing an increase in communications capability such as bits per second. We show that an antifragile gain is possible under a wide variety of reactive-jamming scenarios and provide guidelines for realizing these gains by creating an antifragile wave form. The material in this report has been published in the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Enginers (IEEE) Systems Journal.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 20, 2016
Accession Number
AD1009534

Entities

People

  • Jeffrey H. Reed
  • Marc Lichtman

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Electronic Warfare
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Engineered Resilient Systems
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • 4G Wireless Networks
  • Air Force Research Laboratories
  • Amplitude Modulation
  • Artificial Satellites
  • Communication Systems
  • Detection
  • Electronic Jamming
  • Frequency Shift
  • Global Positioning Systems
  • Machine Learning
  • Modulation
  • Multiple Access
  • Multiple Input Multiple Output
  • Spacecraft
  • Supervised Machine Learning
  • Waveforms
  • Wireless Communications

Fields of Study

  • Computer science
  • Engineering

Readers

  • Inertial Navigation Systems.
  • Maritime Combat Support and Expeditionary Logistics.
  • Radio communications and signal processing.

Technology Areas

  • Microelectronics
  • Space