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Data and Computer

Communications
Chapter 9 Spread Spectrum

Eighth Edition
by William Stallings
Lecture slides by Lawrie Brown

Spread Spectrum
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Spread Spectrum
important encoding method for wireless

communications
analog & digital data with analog signal
spreads data over wide bandwidth
makes jamming and interception harder
two approaches, both in use:

Frequency Hopping
Direct Sequence

General Model of Spread


Spectrum System

Spread Spectrum Advantages


immunity from

noise and multipath

distortion
can hide / encrypt signals
several users can share same higher
bandwidth with little interference

CDM/CDMA Mobile telephones

Pseudorandom Numbers
generated by a deterministic algorithm

not actually random


but if algorithm good, results pass reasonable
tests of randomness

starting from

an initial seed
need to know algorithm and seed to
predict sequence
hence only receiver can decode signal

Frequency Hopping Spread


Spectrum (FHSS)
signal is broadcast over seemingly

random series of frequencies


receiver hops between frequencies in sync
with transmitter
eavesdroppers hear unintelligible blips
jamming on one frequency affects only a
few bits

Frequency Hopping Example

FHSS (Transmitter)

Frequency Hopping Spread


Spectrum System (Receiver)

Slow and Fast FHSS


commonly use multiple FSK (MFSK)
have frequency shifted every Tc

seconds
duration of signal element is Ts seconds
Slow FHSS has Tc Ts
Fast FHSS has Tc

< Ts
FHSS quite resistant to noise or jamming

with fast FHSS giving better performance

Slow MFSK FHSS

Fast MFSK FHSS

Direct Sequence Spread


Spectrum (DSSS)
each bit is represented by multiple bits

using a spreading code


this spreads signal across a wider
frequency band
has performance similar to FHSS

Direct Sequence Spread


Spectrum Example

Direct Sequence Spread


Spectrum System

DSSS Example Using BPSK

Approximate
Spectrum of
DSSS Signal

Code Division Multiple


Access (CDMA)
a multiplexing technique used with spread

spectrum
given a data signal rate D
break each bit into k chips according to a
fixed chipping code specific to each user
resulting new channel has chip data rate
kD chips per second
can have multiple channels superimposed

CDMA Example

CDMA for DSSS

Summary
looked at use of spread spectrum

techniques:
FHSS
DSSS
CDMA

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