Performance Analysis of a Maximum-Likelihood FFH/MFSK Receiver with Partial-Band-Noise Jamming over Frequency-Selective Fading Channels

A maximum-likelihood (ML) receiver is proposed for a fast frequency-hopping M-ary frequency-shift-keying system. The effects of frequency-selective Rayleigh-fading channels, partial-band-noise jamming, and additive white Gaussian noise are considered. It is shown that side information on the noise variance, the jamming variance, as well as the power levels of the correlated paths, is required to implement the ML receiver. Analytical bit-error rate expressions are derived for the ML receiver. Our analysis also shows that there exists an optimum diversity order under certain channel conditions.