{"title":"Limiter/Discriminator Detection of Narrowband FM in Jamming and Multipath Environments","authors":"M. Simon, Charles C. Wang","doi":"10.1109/MILCOM.1982.4805964","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MILCOM.1982.4805964","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a performance analysis of frequency-hopped (FH) spread spectrum systems for narrowband digital FM with limiter-discriminator (L/D) detection and integrate-and-dump post-detection filtering. The performance improvement provided by using coding and subsymbol diversity is illustrated. It is also demonstrated that a more robust, less complex system can perform better than the conventional system in partial band noise jamming and multipath environments.","PeriodicalId":179832,"journal":{"name":"MILCOM 1982 - IEEE Military Communications Conference - Progress in Spread Spectrum Communications","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1982-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132617229","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Coding for Coherent Frequency-Hopped Spread-Spectrum Communication in the Presence of Jamming","authors":"W. Stark","doi":"10.1109/MILCOM.1982.4805914","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MILCOM.1982.4805914","url":null,"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.","PeriodicalId":179832,"journal":{"name":"MILCOM 1982 - IEEE Military Communications Conference - Progress in Spread Spectrum Communications","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1982-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130486896","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Computer Modeling of the MX Simulcast Radio Network","authors":"D. Brown, S. Lee, H. Sunkenberg, H. dePedro","doi":"10.1109/MILCOM.1982.4805901","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MILCOM.1982.4805901","url":null,"abstract":"Nodes of the MX system can communicate effectively in a trans-or post-attack environment by using a simulcast network that employs groundwave propagation. For a sufficiently dense original network, the simulcast approach is relatively insensitive to degrading channel conditions and loss of nodes and links. Network performance is a complicated function of the radio and antenna designs, terrain in the deployment area, destruction level, network topology and method of control, and channel conditions. In order to systematically evaluate the key parameters affecting performance and, in turn, to optimize their joint selection for various deployment alternatives, the radio network simulator (RNS) was developed. This paper focuses on the application of the RNS to the system design process. After a discussion of the modeling techniques used in the simulation, its utilization for performance assessment and tradeoff evaluation are presented. Specific areas considered include data rate and attack analysis.","PeriodicalId":179832,"journal":{"name":"MILCOM 1982 - IEEE Military Communications Conference - Progress in Spread Spectrum Communications","volume":"111 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1982-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124703631","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Microstrip Array for Troposcatter Communications","authors":"A. Kelly, E. Newman","doi":"10.1109/MILCOM.1982.4806026","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MILCOM.1982.4806026","url":null,"abstract":"A high gain, multi-beam microstrip array, and associated multi-channel low noise front end, has been developed for use in experiments relating to advanced troposcatter communication techniques over the 4.4 to 5.0 GHz band. A 10-foot square antenna provides a cluster of orthogonal beams. Two smaller antennas are included. This array permits angle diversity reception, as well as experiments related to Electronic Counter-Countermeasures (ECCM). The radiating elements are wideband dual polarized slots etched in the common ground plane of a pair of microstrip substrates. Each substrate contains the feed circuitry for one polarization. The multi-channel tunable front end exhibits noise figures less than 3.8 dB. It has been designed for extremely low delay distortion, so as to minimize corruption of the signal. A tunable cavity preselector, GaAs FET LNA and thin-film image-reject mixer-preamplifier comprise each channel. The array has proven to be efficient, and capable of wideband performance. The high end performance was impacted by the choice of element spacing. Future arrays will have tighter spacing, to place the grating lobe further away from real space.","PeriodicalId":179832,"journal":{"name":"MILCOM 1982 - IEEE Military Communications Conference - Progress in Spread Spectrum Communications","volume":"28 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1982-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130189365","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Slow Frequency Hopping Technique that is Robust to Repeat Jamming","authors":"J. E. Blanchard","doi":"10.1109/MILCOM.1982.4805913","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MILCOM.1982.4805913","url":null,"abstract":"A frequency hopping technique capable of defeating the repeat jammer independent of the hop rate is presented. This technique, random frequency shift keying/frequency hopping (FSK/FH), is described and analyzed. Specific results are given for 2-ary, 4-ary and 8-ary random FSK/FH against repeat noise, repeat tone, and combined repeat tone and noise jamming with and without error correction coding. These analyses show that random FSK/FH is an effective countermeasure to the repeat jammer.","PeriodicalId":179832,"journal":{"name":"MILCOM 1982 - IEEE Military Communications Conference - Progress in Spread Spectrum Communications","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1982-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129256613","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Applications of Spread Spectrum Radio to Indoor Data Communications","authors":"R. Eschenbach","doi":"10.1109/MILCOM.1982.4805983","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MILCOM.1982.4805983","url":null,"abstract":"This paper describes an operating, radio communication system intended for indoor use. The problems of multipath are discussed and the use of spread spectrum to overcome these problems is described. Two receiver implementations were constructed and a surface acoustic wave correlator version is described in detail. The system operates at a data rate of 100 Kbps over a range of 1000 meters with a power of 50 milliwatts.","PeriodicalId":179832,"journal":{"name":"MILCOM 1982 - IEEE Military Communications Conference - Progress in Spread Spectrum Communications","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1982-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129510583","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Effects of Mutual Coupling upon the LMS Adaptive Antenna Array Algorithm","authors":"S. Alexander, J. Kauffman","doi":"10.1109/MILCOM.1982.4805990","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MILCOM.1982.4805990","url":null,"abstract":"The Least Mean Squares (LMS) algorithm has been frequently used for adapting the weighting multipliers of array elements which form the resulting antenna pattern. While significant performance gain has been reported for such applications as forming a pattern maximum in the direction of a desired signal and adaptively nulling strong jammers, many of the current results have assumed no mutual coupling between array elements. This paper examines the effects of mutual element coupling upon two properties of the LMS algorithm: (1) convergence rate, and (2) steady state pattern. Analysis is developed which displays the effects of mutual coupling explicitly via the elemental coupling coefficients. It is shown that both amplitude and phase of the elemental coupling in general degrades the convergence rate of the LMS algorithm and causes the pattern maximum to appear at a look-direction other than the angle of desired signal arrival. Several examples then illustrate LMS performance in representative coupled environments.","PeriodicalId":179832,"journal":{"name":"MILCOM 1982 - IEEE Military Communications Conference - Progress in Spread Spectrum Communications","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1982-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130862148","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Spread Spectrum and Frequency Management","authors":"Lawrence F. Chesto","doi":"10.1109/MILCOM.1982.4805981","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MILCOM.1982.4805981","url":null,"abstract":"Because there is a growing number of spread spectrum systems being developed and these systems do not fit the normal frequency allocation and assignment scheme, there is an urgent requirement to improve the process for radio frequency supportability and assignment of systems employing spread spectrum techniques. Spectrum supportability is required before major telcommunications systems can be developed, however, for spread spectrum operations it is hampered by spectrum allocation and compatibility problems. Current policy on spectrum allocation and use does not address spread spectrum technology as such. Comprehensive electromagnetic compatibility analysis and testing is required to achieve approval for operation. This paper addresses some of the problems and solutions for obtaining spectrum support and frequency assignment for spread spectrum systems. It is hoped the reader will become more aware of the radio frequency support and assignment requirements, and utilize this knowledge to avoid the cost of developing a spread spectrum system in a band where no or minimal spectrum support can be obtained.","PeriodicalId":179832,"journal":{"name":"MILCOM 1982 - IEEE Military Communications Conference - Progress in Spread Spectrum Communications","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1982-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116905995","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
D. Baker, J. Wieselthier, A. Ephremides, D. McGregor
{"title":"Distributed Network Reconfiguration in Response to Jamming at HF","authors":"D. Baker, J. Wieselthier, A. Ephremides, D. McGregor","doi":"10.1109/MILCOM.1982.4805946","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MILCOM.1982.4805946","url":null,"abstract":"The use of relays is known to increase the resistance of communication links to interference. In a multi-user network it is necessary to establish robust management techniques that allow the users to take advantage of the relaying power a network inherently possesses. In this paper we consider an Intra Task Force (ITF) Network that operates at HF. We employ a network architecture that provides for the automated selection of relay nodes without the need for a central controller. Under this architecture the network reorganizes itself in response to topology changes such as those that result from jamming. Communication range models suitable for a jammed HF channel are presented. We demonstrate that the combination of spread spectrum signaling, error correcting coding, path redundancy through frequency diversity, and adaptive relaying using automated network restructuring provide this network with a strong defense against jamming.","PeriodicalId":179832,"journal":{"name":"MILCOM 1982 - IEEE Military Communications Conference - Progress in Spread Spectrum Communications","volume":"53 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1982-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122877066","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"EHF Power Generation for Tactical, Mobile and Strategic MILSATCOM Terminals","authors":"K. Farber, J. Pan, R. Varley","doi":"10.1109/MILCOM.1982.4806022","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MILCOM.1982.4806022","url":null,"abstract":"EHF MILSATCOM earth terminals are rapidly becoming a reality. EHF power sources (transmitters) are both a high technology and large production cost element of most terminal implementation approaches. To provide the MILSATCOM community with a current technology status, an industry survey has been conducted among several governmental procurement organizations and potential industry suppliers. The survey, as presented in this paper, addresses specific needs of planned terminals at 45 and 30 GHz. Both devices and high-power amplifiers (HPA's) are investigated in the survey, with particular attention given to near-term requirements. The paper considers both TWT and solid-state devices available now as developmental products. IMPATT diodes provide the most extensive effort to date in solid-state device technology, with power FET's offering a long-term solution with some inherent circuit combining advantages. IMPATT diodes are under development applying silicon (Si), gallium arsenide (GaAs), and indium phosphide (InP), materials to device requirements on a frequency selective basis. Current TWT technology is centered around coupled cavity and wound-helix slow-circuit approaches. A brief review of major EHF MILSATCOM earth terminal requirements is presented as it relates to the transmitter power and platform constraints.","PeriodicalId":179832,"journal":{"name":"MILCOM 1982 - IEEE Military Communications Conference - Progress in Spread Spectrum Communications","volume":"32 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1982-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128106051","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}