Anti-Interference Design Based on Prime Interleaving for a Combined FH and DS Spreading Spectrum System

Abstract

A combined prime interleaving design is proposed for a spreading spectrum system with frequency hopping (FH), direct sequence (DS), and coherent detection. Obtaining a lower bit error rate (BER) is the object of classical anti-jamming communication systems. By employing combined prime interleaving, we get lower BER results compared with conventional block interleaving under the same signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) level by merit of superior storage and interleaving effects. Prime interleaving requires only one row to interleave while both block and random interleaving require the whole interleaving matrix, which results in lower latency time. Simulations reveal that the proposed combined interleaving design has comparative performance with random interleaving, and has advantages in transmission reliability and system delay. Moreover, the prime interleaving outputs slightly worse BER compared with random interleaving over the same SNR. Compared with random interleaving, the proposed combined interleaving has 0.25 dB worse SNR over the same average BER.

Keywords

frequency hopping-direct sequence spread spectrum system / combined prime interleaving / block interleaving / random leaving / bit error rate