Application of Steiner design for capacity enhancement of frequency hopping spread spectrum wireless systems

A slow frequency hopping code diversity system with a bandwidth efficient modulation scheme based on balanced incomplete block (BIB) design - the Steiner design has been proposed The proposed system uses more than one frequency bins simultaneously to transmit a symbol. The system performance is evaluated and compared with the MFSK slow frequency hopping code diversity system for a multi-user environment considering non-fading and frequency non-selective slowly time varying Rayleigh fading channel. The performance has also been studied with matched frequency hopping (MFH) an efficient addressing technique for slow frequency selective dispersive channels.