Spread Spectrum Acquisition and Tracking.

Abstract

This report discusses the following subjects: An acquisition scheme for a frequency-hopped SS signal received over a Rayleigh multipath channel with random delay time. We consider relatively fast FH with a hopping rate of 1 KHZ and 127 different hopping frequencies. The received signal is embedded in white Gaussian noise. While the above problem appears to be specific the approach given below is general and can be generalized further. In this case, ignoring the spreading effect, there will be a possible overlapping between only three adjacent frequencies. For such a case we propose an optimum receiver and acquisition scheme whose characteristics are analyzed mathematically and by computer simulation. We characterize the performance of the acquisition scheme by the probability of detection for given probability of false acquisition when the input signal is white Gaussian noise only. The probability of detection is the probability that, at the end of the observation period, the desired signal code sequence is detected. Keywords include: Spread spectrum; Acquisition; Simulation; Direct sequence; and Frequency hopping.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Nov 08, 1985
Accession Number
ADA162442

Entities

People

  • Donald L. Schilling
  • H. Kayser

Organizations

  • City College of New York

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acquisition
  • Air Force
  • Carrier Frequencies
  • Communication Systems
  • Delay Lines
  • Electrical Engineering
  • False Alarms
  • Fokker Planck Equations
  • Frequency
  • Frequency Agility
  • Frequency Shift
  • Probability
  • Probability Density Functions
  • Random Variables
  • Simulations
  • Spread Spectrum
  • Stochastic Processes

Fields of Study

  • Engineering

Readers

  • Computational Modeling and Simulation
  • Radio communications and signal processing.