Performance Evaluation of Different Jamming Strategies Over Uncoded Noncoherent Fast Frequency Hopping MFSK Communication Systems

Abstract

The fast frequency hopping technique is considered one of the most effective Electronic Protective Measures (EPM) for military communications systems in order to mitigate the effect of a follower or repeat jammer. This thesis evaluates the performance of different jamming strategies as barrage noise jamming, partial band jamming and multitone band jamming against an uncoded noncoherent FFH/MFSK system with a conventional receiver. The theoretical and simulated results showed that the best jamming strategies for the examined modulation orders M=2,4,8 is the optimum case of multitone band jamming. As a second goal, this thesis also provides a preliminary analysis for an uncoded noncoherent FFH/MFSK system in a Rayleigh fading channel. This analysis includes the theoretical and simulated results for the influence in the performance from a barrage noise jammer along with AWGN. The results of the theoretical analysis and the simulation modeling for both cases can be used as guidelines to analyze more complicated jamming or combinations of jamming strategies against FFH/MFSK communication system.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 2004
Accession Number
ADA427256

Entities

People

  • Konstantinos Karkatzounis

Organizations

  • Naval Postgraduate School

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Communication Systems
  • Countermeasures
  • Electronic Countermeasures
  • Electronic Jamming
  • Electronic Warfare
  • Frequency Bands
  • Information Operations
  • Information Science
  • Jammers
  • Jamming
  • Military Applications
  • Modulation
  • Noise Jammers
  • Noise Jamming
  • Random Variables
  • Simulations
  • Warfare

Readers

  • Radio communications and signal processing.

Technology Areas

  • Fully Networked C3
  • Fully Networked C3 - Command and Control
  • Microelectronics