Coding for Coherent Frequency-Hopped Spread-Spectrum Communication in the Presence of Jamming

Abstract

The error probability for coherent frequency-hopped spread-spectrum communications in the presence of partial-band jamming is investigated. We consider both tone and noise jamming and calculate symbol error probabilities for BPSK, QPSK, and M-ary orthogonal signal sets. The error probability with coding is found and tradeoffs between various coding strategies are determined for the worst case partial-band jammer.