Error probabilities of an FFH/BFSK self-normalizing receiver in a Rician fading channel with multitone jamming

Abstract

We derive the analytical bit-error rate (BER) expressions for a fast frequency-hopped binary frequency-shift keying self-normalizing receiver over a fading channel with the worst-case band multitone jamming (MTJ) and additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN). The desired signal and MTJ are assumed to undergo independent Rician fading and our analyses, validated with simulation results, show that the system performance is not sensitive to different types of MTJ fading conditions. The self-normalizing receiver is found to be superior to the linear-combining receiver when the signal amplitude does not experience severe fading, while the converse is true under Rayleigh fading signal conditions. Under a Rician fading channel and AWGN conditions, the worst-case MTJ and the worst-case partial-band noise jamming are shown to have similar effects on the BER performance of the self-normalizing receiver with diversity.