The Performance of Interferometric Ranging Systems with Hopping Frequencies in Benign Environment and Under Partial-Band Jamming

Interferometric Ranging with Hopping Frequencies (IRHF) is a novel ranging technique with application in anti-jamming navigation and localization systems. This paper explores the performance of IRHF systems in benign environments and under partial-band jamming (PBJ) conditions. The outlier probability is used to evaluate the ranging accuracy of IRHF systems. Employing an approximation tool called the Union Bound (UB), we derive a formula of the outlier probability of the maximum likelihood estimator (MLE) with respect to a few system parameters. Further analysis reveals that the worst-case partial-band jamming for IRHF is full-band jamming. Computer simulations show that the theoretical result is good enough to predict the performance of IRHF under different conditions.