Effects of Non-Uniform Windowing on the Performance of a Fast Frequency- Hopped Noncoherent MFSK Receiver Over Rician Fading Channels with Partial-Band Interference and Doppler Shift

Abstract

An error probability analysis is done for a DFT based, M-ary frequency-shift keying (MFSK) communications system employing fast frequency- hopped spread spectrum signals. A linear combination procedure referred to as noise-normalization is employed at the receiver to minimize the effects of partial-band interference, which is modeled as additive Gaussian noise. The performance of the receiver is studied as a function of signal Doppler shift and type of windowing used in the DFT. The use of fast frequency-hopped spread spectrum is found to improve the performance of the DFT based receiver in all but the most severe cases of Doppler shift. The use of a non-uniform window (i. e., a Hamming window) to improve receiver performance is effective only in the presence of large Doppler shifts. The amount of Doppler shift necessary to warrant the use of a non-uniform window depends on the amount of jamming noise power at the receiver, but is relatively insensitive to the frequency hop rate used.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 01, 1991
Accession Number
ADA245762

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People

  • Thomas W. Vece

Organizations

  • Naval Postgraduate School

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  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Classification
  • Computers
  • Detectors
  • Doppler Effect
  • Electrical Engineering
  • Engineering
  • Frequency
  • Frequency Agility
  • Frequency Shift
  • Gaussian Noise
  • Integrals
  • Noise
  • Probability
  • Probability Density Functions
  • Random Variables
  • Spread Spectrum
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  • Engineering

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  • Radio communications and signal processing.