Design, Implementation, and Evaluation of a Hybrid DS/FFH Spread-Spectrum Radio Transceiver

Conference · Mon Oct 06 00:00:00 EDT 2014

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1109/MILCOM.2014.227· OSTI ID:1178514

Olama, Mohammed M.; Killough, Stephen M.; Kuruganti, Teja; Carroll, Thomas E.

In recent years there has been great interest in using hybrid spread-spectrum (HSS) techniques for commercial applications, particularly in the Smart Grid, in addition to their inherent uses in military communications. This is because HSS can accommodate high data rates with high link integrity, even in the presence of significant multipath effects and interfering signals. A highly useful form of this transmission technique for many types of command, control, and sensing applications is the specific code-related combination of standard direct-sequence modulation with "fast" frequency-hopping, denoted hybrid DS/FFH, wherein multiple frequency hops occur within a single data-bit time. In this paper, we present the efforts carried out at Oak Ridge National Laboratory toward exploring the design, implementation, and evaluation of a hardware prototypic hybrid DS/FFH spread-spectrum radio transceiver using a single Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA). The high integration within a single FPGA allows the various subsystems to easily communicate with each other and thereby maintain tight synchronization. We investigate various hopping sequences against robustness to interference and jamming. Experimental results are presented to show the receiver sensitivity, radio data rate evaluation, and jamming-rejection capability of the implemented hybrid DS/FFH spread-spectrum system under widely varying design parameters.

• Research Organization: Pacific Northwest National Lab. (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE
• DOE Contract Number: AC05-76RL01830
• OSTI ID: 1178514
• Report Number(s): PNNL-SA-104393
• Resource Relation: Conference: IEEE Military Communications Conference (MILCOMM 2014), October 6-8, 2014, Baltimore, Maryland, 1368-1373
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

Hybrid spread-spectrum
direct-sequence
frequency-hopping
interference
jamming
Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA)
Phase-Locked Loop (PLL)