Performance analysis of an FFH/BFSK product-combining receiver under multitone jamming

The performance of a fast frequency-hopped binary frequency-shift keying (FFH/BFSK) spread-spectrum (SS) communication system is studied in this paper. The FFH system employs a product-combining receiver against the worst case multitone jamming (MTJ) and additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN). The compact characteristic functions of the natural logarithm of the product-combiner outputs are obtained based on the Taylor series expansion. The characteristic functions are then used to derive the bit error rate (BER) expressions that are applicable to higher diversity levels. Our analysis, validated by the simulation results, shows that the band MTJ is generally more harmful than the corresponding independent MTJ. The BER performance of the product-combining receiver is shown to possess good MTJ rejection capability compared to that of the soft-decision linear-combining receiver, especially under both moderate and strong MTJ power conditions