Detection of Frequency Hopped Signals Timing Information Using the Temporal Correlation Function

Abstract

This work extends earlier work derived by Overdyk and investigates the use of wavelet transform and image processing tools to estimate hopping times occurring in frequency hopping schemes. The detection algorithm identifies frequency hopping time locations found in FH schemes from the information provided by the two-dimensional short-term signal temporal correlation function. Hopping time locations are shown to be provided by identifying TGF phase discontinuities. The detection scheme has three main stages: I. Derive the analytic version of the FH signal and compute the resulting TGF function; 2. Enhance discontinuities via the one-dimensional Wavelet transform; 3. Apply morphological image processing operations and the Hough transform to estimate hopping time locations. Results show that for FH signals imbedded in additive White Gaussian noise reliable detection performance may be obtained for SNR levels above 3 dB and good detection performance for SNR levels above 6dB for 5% to 20% detection accuracy.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 2008
Accession Number
ADA488673

Entities

People

  • Yuan-pin Cheng

Organizations

  • Naval Postgraduate School

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Human Systems
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Accuracy
  • Additives (Chemicals)
  • Algorithms
  • Change Detection
  • Detection
  • Discontinuities
  • Electrical Engineering
  • Frequency
  • Frequency Agility
  • Frequency Response
  • Gaussian Noise
  • Gray Scale
  • Image Processing
  • Signal Processing
  • Sine Waves
  • Two Dimensional
  • Wavelet Transforms

Fields of Study

  • Engineering

Readers

  • Calculus or Mathematical Analysis
  • Image Processing and Computer Vision.
  • Radio communications and signal processing.