Abstract: In this paper, a multilevel-quantized soft- limiting (SL-MQ) detector for frequency hopping spread spectrum multiple access (FH-SSMA) system is proposed and analyzed. Numerical and simulation results in frequency selective Rayleigh fading channels show that as compared to the hard-limiting (HL) detector, the new SL-MQ with Å can improve the system capacity by almost ½¼± at the bit error rate level of ½¼ ¿. Furthermore, the performance of the SL-MQ has low sensitivity to the optimum value of the amplitude threshold so that it can tolerate inaccurate estimate of its optimum in practice.
Jian F. Weng, Guo Q. Xue, Tho Le-Ngoc, Sofiè