5. Important form of encoding for wireless communication.
Transmit either analog or digital data
Analog signal (transmission)
Developed initially for military and intelligence requirements
Spread data over wider bandwidth
Makes jamming and interception harder
Types of spread spectrum
1) Frequency hoping :
Signal broadcast over seemingly random series of frequencies
2) Direct Sequence :
Each bit is represented by multiple bits in transmitted signal
Chipping code
6. Spread spectrum is characterized by :
Wide band width
Low power
jamming and interference have less effect on spread
spectrum becuase it is :
1) Resemble noise
2) Hard to detect
3) Hard to intercept
8. Input fed into channel encoder
Produces narrow bandwidth analog signal around central
frequency
Signal modulated using sequence of digits
Spreading code/sequence
Typically generated by pseudonoise / Pseudorandom number
generator
Increases bandwidth significantly
Spreads the spectrum
Receiver uses same sequence to demodulate signal
Demodulated signal fed into channel decoder
9. Immunity from various noise and multipath
distortion
Including jamming
Can hide/encrypt signals
Only receiver who knows spreading code can retrieve
signal
Several users can share same higher bandwidth
with little interference
o Cellular telephones
Code division multiplexing (CDM) or
Code division multiple access (CDMA)
10. Generated by algorithm using initial seed
(initial value)
Deterministic algorithm
Not actually random
If algorithm good, results pass reasonable tests of
randomness
Pseudorandom numbers
Need to know algorithm and seed to predict
sequence
Only receiver sharing info with transmitter able to
decode the signal successfully.
11. FHSS stands for Frequency Hopping
Spread Spectrum
Signal broadcast over seemingly random
series of frequencies at fixed interval
Receiver hops between frequencies in
syncronious with transmitter to pick
message
Eavesdroppers hear unintelligible blips
Jamming on one frequency affects only a
few bits
12. The data signal is modulated with a narrow band
carrier signal that “ hops ” in a random but
predictable sequence from frequency to frequency
as a function of time over a wide band of
frequencies.
It is used as a multiple access method in the
frequency- hopping code division multiple
access (FH-CDMA) scheme.
13. Typically 2K carriers frequencies forming 2 k
channels
Channel frequency spacing corresponds with
bandwidth of input signal
Each channel used for fixed interval
Eg:300 ms in IEEE 802.11
Some number of bits transmitted using some
encoding scheme
o May be fractions of bit
Sequence dictated by spreading code
Both transmitter & receiver use same code
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15. Frequency shifted every Tc seconds
Duration of signal element is Ts seconds
Slow FHSS has Tc Ts
Fast FHSS has Tc < Ts
Generally fast FHSS gives improved performance in
noise (or jamming)
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17. Typically large number of frequencies used
Improved resistance to jamming
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20. DSSS stands for Direct Sequence Spread
Spectrum
Each bit represented by multiple bits using
spreading code
Spreading code spreads signal across wider
frequency band
In proportion to number of bits used
1,0 bit spreading code spreads signal across
10 times bandwidth of 1 bit code
One method:
Combine input with spreading code using
XOR
Performance similar to FHSS