INCREASING THE UP-LINK CW INTERFERENCE IMMUNITY OF NONCOHERENT DIRECT-SEQUENCE PSEUDONOISE (DSPN) RECEPTION WITH ON-BOARD PROCESSING

The adaptive threshold A/D converter is by now a familiar technique for increasing the CW interference immunity of coherently detected direct sequence pseudonoise (DSPN) spread-spectrum signals, especially where the frequency of the CW interferer may be changing so rapidly and over such a large portion of the signalling bandwidth that well known spectrum excision techniques prove ineffective. The present paper extends the theory to the case of non-coherent reception of direct sequence pseudonoise (DSPN) signals. The A/D converter is found to perform well in both CW and Gaussian interference. Conversion gain is seen to persist even if the interference is intentionally pulsed at an optimally reduced duty factor (from the interferer's point of view) in the attempt to confuse the adaptive threshold. The specific case of 32-chip data symbols is treated, wherein the adaptation is applied strictly to individual symbols. In some cases these restrictions will actually improve performance.