Optimum rate Reed-Solomon codes for frequency-hopped spread-spectrum multiple-access communication systems

The authors consider a multiple-access frequency-hopped spread-spectrum communication system with Reed-Solomon codes. The performance measures of interest are an achievable region and the channel throughput. The achievable rate region is the set of all pairs of code rate and number of users for which communication is possible with error probability below a fixed value. The throughput measures the expected number of successful codeword transmissions per unit bandwidth. Two models of interference are considered. For these two models, the authors determine the optimal number of users for a given bandwidth and the optimal rate Reed-Solomon code that maximize the throughput. They also determine the achievable region for these models