Anti-follower jamming wide gap multi-pattern frequency hopping communication method

This paper deals with the follower jamming (FJ) resistance for the frequency hopping (FH) communication system over additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN) channel. Conventional FH systems are susceptible to be jammed by FJ, and multi-pattern frequency hopping (MPFH) has good resistance to FJ. To further improve the FJ rejection capability of MPFH, we propose a wide gap multi-pattern frequency hopping (WGMPFH) scheme. WGMPFH uses channels to represent messages, and the data channel and complementary channel are hopping on orthogonal frequency slots according to wide gap FH patterns. The transmitted signal lures FJ to aim at the data channel and the complementary channel is away from FJ by adopting wide gap frequency patterns. FJ does not affect the complementary channel but increases the signal energy in the data channel, thus the effect of FJ is reduced. Its bit error rate (BER) is derived under FJ and the effects of three FJ parameters (tracking success probability, jamming duration ratio and jamming bandwidth ratio) on the BER performance of WGMPFH are investigated versus the conventional FH/BFSK and MPFH system. Numerical and simulation results show that when under the worst-case FJ, the proposed WGMPFH outperforms the MPFH by about 1–3 dB and outperforms the conventional FH/BFSK by more than 4 dB. The proposed WGMPFH shows superior jamming rejection performance under FJ especially in severe signal-to-jamming ratio (SJR).