Frequency position modulation using multi-spectral projections

Joel Goodman; Crystal Bertoncini; Michael Moore; Bryan Nousain; Gregory Cowart

doi:10.1117/12.928871

19 October 2012 Frequency position modulation using multi-spectral projections

Joel Goodman, Crystal Bertoncini, Michael Moore, Bryan Nousain, Gregory Cowart

Proceedings Volume 8514, Satellite Data Compression, Communications, and Processing VIII; 85140C (2012) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.928871
Event: SPIE Optical Engineering + Applications, 2012, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

In this paper we present an approach to harness multi-spectral projections (MSPs) to carefully shape and locate tones in the spectrum, enabling a new and robust modulation in which a signal's discrete frequency support is used to represent symbols. This method, called Frequency Position Modulation (FPM), is an innovative extension to MT-FSK and OFDM and can be non-uniformly spread over many GHz of instantaneous bandwidth (IBW), resulting in a communications system that is difficult to intercept and jam. The FPM symbols are recovered using adaptive projections that in part employ an analog polynomial nonlinearity paired with an analog-to-digital converter (ADC) sampling at a rate at that is only a fraction of the IBW of the signal. MSPs also facilitate using commercial of-the-shelf (COTS) ADCs with uniform-sampling, standing in sharp contrast to random linear projections by random sampling, which requires a full Nyquist rate sample-and-hold. Our novel communication system concept provides an order of magnitude improvement in processing gain over conventional LPI/LPD communications (e.g., FH- or DS-CDMA) and facilitates the ability to operate in interference laden environments where conventional compressed sensing receivers would fail. We quantitatively analyze the bit error rate (BER) and processing gain (PG) for a maximum likelihood based FPM demodulator and demonstrate its performance in interference laden conditions.

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Joel Goodman, Crystal Bertoncini, Michael Moore, Bryan Nousain, and Gregory Cowart "Frequency position modulation using multi-spectral projections", Proc. SPIE 8514, Satellite Data Compression, Communications, and Processing VIII, 85140C (19 October 2012); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.928871

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