Coding and Modulation Techniques for Frequency-Hopped Spread-Spectrum Communications Over a Pulse-Burst Jammed Rayleigh Fading Channel

In this paper, the results of comparing the performance of various forward error correction techniques and several modulation formats when used over a nonselective Rayleigh fading channel in the presence of a pulse-burst jammer are presented. Both binary and nonbinary codes are considered, as well as concatenated codes consisting of either a block or a convolutional inner code and a Reed-Solomon outer code. Finally, the use of side information to allow the decoding of both erasures and errors is also analyzed.