PREDICTION OF PROPAGATION PARAMETERS IN FREQUENCY-HOPPING SPREAD-SPECTRUM

Frequency hopping spread spectrum (FH-SS) has found a number of applic ations in both CDMA and TDMA cellular systems, wireless local loop, an d wireless local area networks. Propagation studies and statistical an alysis are employed to show that the frequency hopped channel displays improved short-term characteristics when compared to the non-hopped c ase. Furthermore, novel analyses of the short-term statistics of the f requency-hopped channel enable prediction of the performance of an FH system.