Error probabilities and performance comparisons of FFH/BFSK receivers with multitone jamming and AWGN

This paper studies the bit-error rate (BER) performance of a fast frequency-hopped (FFH) binary frequency-shift-keying (BFSK) clipper receiver in the presence of multitone jamming (MTJ) and additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN). By using the Taylor-series expansion and the quantization approach, the BER expressions for higher diversity levels can be obtained without much extra computational complexity. The analytical BER results, validated by simulations, show that there is an optimum diversity level for the clipper receiver. Performance comparisons among various receivers demonstrate that the BER performance of the clipper receiver is significantly better than that of the linear-combining receiver. In addition, the clipper receiver also outperforms the product-combining receiver and the self-normalizing receiver provided that the clipping threshold is set at the desired signal power level