Robust Frequency Hopping for High Data Rate Tactical Communications

Abstract

An adaptive frequency hopping spread-spectrum (FHSS) modulation scheme is proposed which efficiently utilizes available transmission bandwidth, whilst providing robustness to jamming techniques in wireless tactical communication systems. The proposed technique operates by transmitting multiple, single-carrier, parallel transmission sub bands, which may occupy non-contiguous frequency regions. Simulation results demonstrate that the proposed scheme exhibits significant gain in error rate performance, as reduction in either the transmission data rate or an increase in transmitter power. In addition, the proposed scheme can adapt to use the available bandwidth for communicating, thus increasing the overall bandwidth utilization of the system.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 01, 2006
Accession Number
ADA521139

Entities

People

  • Colin Brown
  • Philip J. Vigneron

Organizations

  • Communications Research Centre Canada

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • Bandwidth
  • Coding
  • Data Rate
  • Frequency
  • Frequency Agility
  • Frequency Diversity
  • Military Applications
  • Military Communications
  • Modulation
  • National Security
  • Simulations
  • Spectra
  • Spread Spectrum
  • Tactical Communications
  • Transmitters
  • Waveforms

Fields of Study

  • Computer science
  • Engineering

Readers

  • Radio communications and signal processing.