Statistical demodulators for frequency shift keying with fast frequency hopping

Abstract

This work is devoted to the problems of information transmission with frequency shift keying and fast frequency hopping in special channels where the signal/noise ratio is low, and a high energy interfering signal is present. We propose a demodulation algorithm that is significantly more stable to the influence of a powerful interfering signal as compared to other known algorithms. Under these conditions, we show a statistical criterion that lets one significantly reduce error probability on the demodulator’s output. For the chosen criterion we prove several lemmas that let us speed up the demodulation algorithm. Computer modeling results show that the proposed demodulation algorithm has better correcting ability under a powerful interfering signal than previously known ones.