Title : 
Troposcatter link performance in the presence of two jammers
         
        
            Author : 
Matthews, James W.
         
        
            Author_Institution : 
MITRE Corp., Bedford, MA, USA
         
        
        
        
        
            fDate : 
4/1/1989 12:00:00 AM
         
        
        
        
            Abstract : 
Performance predictions of a Rayleigh fading channel are calculated for a troposcatter radio in the presence of two line-of-sight (LOS) jammers. The receiver incorporates dual main antennas and a sidelobe canceller. The countermeasure approach used is array processing. A communications approach is taken, with the goal of deriving an analytic expression for the bit error rate, in terms of the signal-to-noise ratio. After deriving the general solution, an approximation is introduced and proposed as an alternative measure of performance. It is insensitive to the fine-grain structure of the problem geometry, and it contains a minimal number of parameters, namely, the various signal energies reaching the receiver
         
        
            Keywords : 
fading; interference suppression; jamming; radio links; radiowave propagation; tropospheric electromagnetic wave propagation; BER; Rayleigh fading channel; SNR; antennas; approximation; array processing; bit error rate; countermeasure; interference suppression; line of sight jammers; sidelobe canceller; signal energies; signal-to-noise ratio; troposcatter link performance; Antenna measurements; Array signal processing; Bit error rate; Fading; Jamming; Radio communication countermeasures; Receivers; Receiving antennas; Signal analysis; Signal to noise ratio;
         
        
        
            Journal_Title : 
Communications, IEEE Transactions on