Coherent Hybrid DS-SFH Spread-Spectrum Multiple-Access Communications

The performance of synchronous and asynchronous hybrid direct-sequence/slow-frequency-hopped spread-spectrum multiple-access communications over additive white Gaussian noise channels is examined. Systems employing binary or quaternary phase-shift-keying modulation with coherent demodulation are investigated. Both deterministic and random signature sequences and frequency-hopping patterns are considered and several possible assignments for them are discussed. It is shown that the multiple-access capability of hybrid spread-spectrum is superior to that of pure frequency-hopped spread-spectrum, and inferior to that of pure direct-sequence spread-spectrum for systems with identical bandwidth expansion which employ the same data modulation and demodulation scheme and random hopping patterns and signature sequences.