Performance of a noncoherent RAKE receiver and convolutional coding with Ricean fading and pulse-noise jamming

Author

Kowalske, Kyle ; Robertson, R. Clark

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Naval Postgraduate Sch., Monterey, CA, USA

Volume

2

fYear

2003

fDate

13-16 Oct. 2003

Firstpage

1143

Abstract

The effect of pulse-noise jamming noncoherent RAKE receiver with convolutional coding in the presence of Ricean fading is analyzed. The effect of additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN) is also included in the analysis. The maximum-likelihood RAKE receiver for the combination of pulse noise and AWGN is derived. Pulse jamming usually has a significant effect when soft decision decoding is used, however, we show that the maximum-likelihood RAKE receiver effectively mitigates pulse noise jamming. Hard decision decoding reduces the effect of pulse noise jamming, however, the maximum-likelihood RAKE with soft decision decoding performs better than hard decision decoding in the presence of pulse-noise jamming.

Keywords

AWGN; Rician channels; convolutional codes; jamming; maximum likelihood decoding; radio receivers; AWGN; Ricean fading; additive white Gaussian noise; convolutional coding; maximum-likelihood RAKE receiver; noncoherent RAKE receiver; pulse-noise jamming; soft decision decoding; AWGN; Additive white noise; Convolutional codes; Density functional theory; Fading; Gaussian noise; Jamming; Maximum likelihood decoding; Multipath channels; RAKE receivers;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Military Communications Conference, 2003. MILCOM '03. 2003 IEEE

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8140-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MILCOM.2003.1290354

Filename

1290354