Convolutionally coded frequency-hopping communications with nonideal interleaving

• Published in: IEEE journal on selected areas in communications Vol. 8; no. 5; pp. 823 - 836
• Main Authors: Laufer, S., Reichman, A.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY IEEE 01.06.1990; Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
• Subjects: Applied sciences; Coding, codes; Constraint optimization; Convolutional codes; Decoding; Diversity reception; Exact sciences and technology; Frequency; Information, signal and communications theory; Interleaved codes; Jamming; Signal and communications theory; System performance; Telecommunications and information theory; Upper bound; Viterbi algorithm; Frequency shift keying; Theoretical study; Delay time; Decoding; Performance; Code; Viterbi decoding; Optimization
• ISSN: 0733-8716
• DOI: 10.1109/49.56389

The interleaving span of coded frequency-hopped (FH) systems is often constrained to be smaller than the decoder memory length, i.e. nonideal interleaving is performed. An upper bound on the performance of a Viterbi decoder of a convolutional code with nonideal interleaving is presented. A soft decision diversity combining technique is introduced, and the performance of combined convolutional and diversity coding subject to worst-case partial band noise jamming is investigated. Optimization of the FH system performance subject to constraints of allowed delay and synthesizer settling time provides the best combination of interleaving span and hopping rate. The FH system considered employs M-ary frequency-shift key (MFSK) modulation and noncoherent demodulation with 2-b soft decision based on Viterbi's ratio-threshold technique.< >