Performance of Serially Concatenated Convolutional Codes with Binary Modulation in AWGN and Noise Jamming over Rayleigh Fading Channels

This is a NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CA report procured by the Pentagon and made available for public release. It has been reproduced in the best form available to the Pentagon. It is not spiral-bound, but rather assembled with Velobinding in a soft, white linen cover. The Storming Media report number is A543793. The abstract provided by the Pentagon follows: In this dissertation the bit error rates for serially concatenated convolutional codes (SCCC) for both BPSK and DPSK modulation with different channel conditions and with (and without) spread spectrum are considered. For low signal-to-noise ratios simulation results are used while for higher signal- to-noise ratios an average upper bound is developed to illustrate the achievable performance of SCCC. The theoretical bounds for SCCC BPSK and SCCC DPSK with AWGN, noise jamming Rayleigh fading and spread spectrum are developed analyzed and compared with simulation results. The differences in performance between SCCC BPSK and SCCC DPSK are described. Implications for the military communications user and jammer are also discussed,