Performance of serially concatenated convolutional codes with DPSK in the presence of pulsed noise jamming

In this paper, the bit error rate of four-state serially concatenated convolutional codes (SCCC) with DPSK, AWGN and pulsed noise jamming is examined. For low signal-to-noise ratios, simulation results are used, while for higher signal-to-noise ratios, an average upper bound is developed. The results show that at higher signal-to-jamming noise ratios, pulsed noise jamming rather than barrage jamming is the worst case. DPSK is not as good as BPSK when used with SCCC. Simulation results also showed that side information is not as useful for DPSK.