High-Efficiency PCSK-CFFH System Design for IoT Networks

Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) brings opportunities for innovation and upgrading to industrial production, but meanwhile, it poses unprecedented challenges on the physical layer of wireless communications. In this article, we propose a novel frequency hopping transmission scheme for IIoT, which owns much high efficiency and strong anti-jamming ability. This new scheme is built based on the combination of coherent fast frequency hopping (CFFH) and cyclic code shift key (CCSK), named phase cyclic shift-keying-based CFFH (PCSK-CFFH). For the proposed PCSK-CFFH system, the shift of orthogonal base sequence is adopted to modulate the phases among interhop, instead of transmitting each hop with the same phase as conventional CFFH. This scheme is able to further exploit the extra dimensions of CFFH signals and enables the CFFH system to transmit additional information at no extra cost on either bandwidth or power. Moreover, the bit error rate performance of the proposed PCSK-CFFH system is analyzed theoretically. To improve its ability against severe narrow-band jamming, the selection combining is introduced in our scheme. Furthermore, the anti-jamming performance of the proposed PCSK-CFFH system is also demonstrated. Finally, the simulation results are shown to demonstrate that: by introducing the interhop dimension to CFFH, PCSK-CFFH improves the power efficiency and spectrum efficiency by multiple times and simultaneously inherits the excellent anti-jamming performance of the conventional CFFH system. It can be concluded that the proposed PCSK-CFFH scheme has a great potential to be applied to low-power and highly reliable IIoT communications.