Detection of Power Increasing Jammers: Operational Considerations

In a recent paper, the authors proposed an optimum detection algorithm for noise like smart jammers that increase the transmitted power over the time. Remarkably, this kind of jammers can bypass conventional electronic counter-countermeasures, since classical methods are based on the detection of a noise power discontinuity in the observation window. On the other hand, the aforementioned detection algorithm can detect these smart jammers overcoming the conventional approach. While in the mentioned paper the theory of the detector has been presented, in this paper we further investigate the behavior of this detector, especially for what concerns operative application. Specifically, the detector is supposed to use a temporal sliding window and, once a “linear” jammer is detected the cancellation must be performed. In what follows, the conventional and the new detector are analyzed from an operating point of view.