A novel algorithm of blind detection of frequency hopping signal based on second-order cyclostationarity

An algorithm to blindly detect frequency hopping (FH) signals corrupted by while Gaussian noise (WGN) is presented. Any parameters of FH are assumed to be unknown, and the noise power can be either known or unknown. The algorithm is based on the difference in cyclostationarity (CS) between FH signal and WGN. The module of estimation of cyclic autocorrelation is picked up with available received signal as the test statistic. A WGN of which power equals to the average power of received signal is constructed at the received end, and then the maximum module of estimation of cyclic autocorrelation is computed with this WGN as the detection threshold. Simulation results have proved that the proposed algorithm is adequate to the environments in which signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) is higher than -3dB.