BER performance study of HF band FB-MC-SS
Stephen Andrew Laraway, Hussein Moradi, Behrouz Farhang‐Boroujeny · 2016
In a recent paper, we have proposed a filter bank multicarrier spread spectrum (FB-MC-SS) waveform as a new method for wideband spread spectrum communications in HF bands. We have noted that FB-MC-SS is well suited for this application because of its robustness against narrow and partial band interference and because it has good performance over a wide range of delay and Doppler spreads. In this paper, we further our study and analyze the bit error rate (BER) of FB-MC-SS when applied to HF channels. Our study is a comprehensive one and includes time-varying characteristics of HF channels, channel estimation error, and correlation among subcarriers in the proposed FB-MC-SS system.