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Effects of correlated fading on frequency-hop communications with Reed-Solomon coding

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The transmission of frequency-hop spread-spectrum signals over a frequency-selective fading channel results in correlation between the amplitudes of signals that occupy different frequency slots. This correlation produces dependent errors among symbols transmitted at different frequencies. For a system that employs block coding, this dependence results in dependent errors, even if the code symbols are interleaved over the dwell intervals. Using an appropriate mathematical model for wideband frequency-selective fading channel, we present analytical results on the code-word error probability for a simple coding scheme and simulation results for more complex codes.

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  1. Clemson University, 102 Riggs Hall, 29634-0915, Clemson, South Carolina

    John H. Gass Jr. & Michael B. Pursley

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Gass, J.H., Pursley, M.B. Effects of correlated fading on frequency-hop communications with Reed-Solomon coding. Int J Wireless Inf Networks 1, 177–186 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02107417

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