Interception of Frequency-Hopped Spread-Spectrum Signals

IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 1990, Pages 853-870

  Beaulieu, Norman C ^a   Hopkins, Wendy L ^a,b   McLane, Peter J ^a  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b NORTEL NETWORKS   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROBABILITY; RADIO RECEIVERS; SIGNAL DETECTION;

FALSE ALARM PROBABILITY; FREQUENCY-HOPPED SPREAD-SPECTRUM SIGNALS; MAXIMUM-LIKELIHOOD DETECTION; NEYMAN-PEARSON DETECTION THEORY; SIGNAL INTERCEPTION;

RADIO TRANSMISSION;

EID: 0025446965     PISSN: 07338716     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/49.56391     Document Type: Article

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