Performance Evaluation of Frequency-Hopped Spread Spectrum Multi-Hop Networks

Abstract

Primary and secondary multiple-access interference processes are characterized for multi-hop packet radio networks, in which users are assumed to be Poisson-distributed in the plane and to use frequency hopped spread-spectrum signaling with a receiver-oriented assignment of frequency-hopping patterns. The throughput per node and the average forward progress are then evaluated for frequency-hopped multi-hop networks that employ (i) random forward routing with fixed transmission radius (RFR) and(ii) most forward progress routing with fixed transmission radius (MFR). The optimal average number of neighbors and transmission radius are derived for these cases when Reed-Solomon forward-error- control coding with minimum distance decoding or binary convolutional coding with Viterbi decoding is employed.

Open PDF

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Nov 02, 1988
Accession Number
ADA200950

Entities

People

  • E. A. Geraniotis
  • J. W. Gluck

Organizations

  • United States Naval Research Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Code Division Multiple Access
  • Coding
  • Communication Systems
  • Communications Techniques
  • Decoders
  • Decoding
  • Electrical Engineering
  • Engineering
  • Frequency
  • Frequency Agility
  • Military Research
  • Modulation
  • Multiple Access
  • Notation
  • Spread Spectrum
  • Systems Engineering
  • Universities

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Computer Networking
  • Radio communications and signal processing.