A comparison of slow-frequency-hop and direct-sequence spread-spectrum communications over frequency-selective fading channels

IEEE Transactions on Communications

Volumn 47, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 732-741

  Gass Jr , John H ^a   Pursley, Michael B ^b  

^a ITT Aerospace/Communications Division   (United States)

^b CLEMSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Code division multiple access (cdma); Directsequence spread spectrum; Frequency hop communications; Selective fading

Indexed keywords

BIT ERROR RATE; CODE DIVISION MULTIPLE ACCESS; COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); COMPUTER SIMULATION; DECODING; DIRECT SEQUENCE SYSTEMS; ERROR ANALYSIS; ERROR CORRECTION; FADING (RADIO); RADIO RECEIVERS; RADIO TRANSMITTERS; THERMAL NOISE;

SELECTIVE FADING; SLOW-FREQUENCY-HOP (SFH) COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

MOBILE RADIO SYSTEMS;

EID: 0032623627     PISSN: 00906778     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/26.768767     Document Type: Article

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