The Performance of Five Different Metrics Against Pulsed Jamming

Metrics that are effective against white Gaussian noise are not necessarily effective against pulsed jamming that is optimized by an opponent. This paper analyzes and compares the information-bit error rates that result from using the hard-decision, maximum-likelihood, white-noise, automatic gain control, and erasure metrics against pulsed jamming. Practical implementation problems and limitations are identified and discussed.