Comparison of Jamming Methods for Underwater Acoustic DSSS Communication Systems

Abstract

With the development of underwater acoustic communications (UWAC), jamming methods for UWAC becomes much more attentive in communication countermeasure system. Direct sequence spread spectrum (DSSS) signal as a way of reliable covert communications is widely used for UWA channels. In this paper, single-tone jamming, narrowband jamming and correlated jamming based on PN code PSK modulation for UWA DSSS communication system are compared under different signal-to-noise ratio first, which assumes that the jammer knows perfect parameters in DSSS signal. Besides, performance of the above three jamming methods are compared by simulations under the blind estimates of carrier frequency, chip length, period of PN code and PN code itself, which demonstrates the influence of the estimation error on these jamming methods.