Frequency-hopped spread spectrum in the presence of a follower partial-band jammer

A countermeasure to a partial-band follower jammer is proposed for frequency-hopped spread-spectrum communications. This technique randomizes the transmission technique used by the transmitter (and receiver). Either the information is carried by M tones which are transmitted in a frequency slot, or by M frequency slots which contain signal energy. As a counter-countermeasures, the jammer randomizes between jamming the same frequency slot being used by the communicator, or jamming a subset of the slots not being used by the communicator. The performance for randomized strategies for the communicator and jammer is investigated. It is shown that the proposed technique enhances the system's performance.<
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