A game theoretic DRA approach for improved spread spectrum frequency hopped waveforms performance in the presence of smart jammers

Anti-jamming is an important capability for satellite communication (SATCOM) systems, when critical communication links may need to be maintained in hostile environments with smart jammers trying to disrupt the communications. The protection of SATCOM links from intended radio frequency interference (RFI) is a complex task. Anti-jamming (AJ) can be done in multiple domains: space, time, frequency, modulation, and coding. In this paper, a game theoretic dynamic resource allocation (DRA) approach is presented to enhance AJ performance of spread spectrum frequency hopped waveforms used in SATCOM. The game theoretic optimization is obtained through resource allocation such as, frequency, bandwidth, power, transmission time, modulation and coding (MODCOD) against smart jammers.