Combined tone and noise jamming against coded FH/MFSK ECCM radios

The authors conjecture that a proper combination of partial-band tone jamming (PBTJ) and full-band noise jamming (FBNJ) under a given total jamming power constraint may be more effective than PBTJ alone, not only for the case with a low (E_s/N_J), but also for the case with high E_s/N_J, since the FBNJ can corrupt the jamming state information (JSI). Assuming this combination of PBTJ and FBNJ jamming, they consider three cases of receiver processing-the hard decision (HD) metric without JSI, the HD metric with perfect JSI, and the maximum-likelihood (ML) metric using Viterbi´s ratio threshold (VRT) to generate a 1-b symbol decision quality indicator. System performance is evaluated in terms of the Chernoff bound on the probability of symbol error. From extensive numerical analysis the authors conclude that, for the case of the HD metric without JSI, PBTJ-only jamming is the worst form of jamming, as expected, since the receiver does not use JSI at all; for the other cases, a combination of PBTJ and FBNJ is the worst, with the worst ratio of PBTJ power to FBNJ power a function of the values of M and E_s/N_J