Diversity combining in FH/BFSK systems to combat partial band jamming

A combiner for a frequency-hopped binary frequency-shift keyed (FH/BFSK) system, called the product-combining receiver (PCR), is introduced. The performance of the PCR is evaluated for the cases of an on/off partial-band noise with optimum-jamming fraction, and worst-case, partial-band tone jamming. The performance of PCR is shown to be comparable to that of the clipper receiver. The effect of diversity combining, along with convolutional coding and ratio-threshold technique, is analyzed. Whereas the clipper requires the knowledge of signal-to-noise ratio for threshold adjustments, the PCR does not require this knowledge for this operation.<
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