Implementation of Uncoordinated Direct Sequence Spread Spectrum using Software Defined Radios
One of the major threats to wireless communications is jamming. Many anti-jamming techniques have been presented in the past. However most of them are based on the precondition that the communicating devices have a pre-shared secret that can be used to synchronize the anti-jamming scheme. E.g. for frequency hopping the secret could be used to derive the hopping sequence and for direct sequence spread spectrum the secret is used to derive the spreading codes. But how can the devices bootstrap a jamming-resistant communication without having a pre-shared secret? Christina Popper and Mario Strasser propose as scheme for Uncoordinated Frequency Hopping (UFH) and Uncoordinated Direct Sequence Spread Spectrum (UDSSS) in their papers [1] and [2] respectively. The goal of my project was an implementation of Uncoordinated Direct Sequence Spread Spectrum (UDSSS) using Software Dened Radios. The First version should serve as an easy to use and extendable proof of conceptfor the proposed scheme.
Summary
This master's thesis documents an SDR-based implementation of Uncoordinated Direct Sequence Spread Spectrum (UDSSS) to enable jamming-resistant links without pre-shared secrets. The reader will learn how the UDSSS protocol can be realized on software-defined radios and how its performance behaves under practical jamming scenarios.
Key Takeaways
- Implement an Uncoordinated Direct Sequence Spread Spectrum (UDSSS) transmitter and receiver on an SDR platform
- Evaluate UDSSS performance with empirical metrics such as BER and packet delivery under different jamming models
- Design and generate spreading sequences and acquisition procedures that require no pre-shared secret
- Integrate UDSSS algorithms into real-time SDR constraints and measure timing/throughput trade-offs
Who Should Read This
Advanced graduate students, researchers, and SDR engineers working on wireless anti-jamming techniques and practical spread-spectrum implementations.
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