Performance Degradation in Cross-Eye Jamming Due to Amplitude/Phase Instability between Jammer Antennas

Sensors (Basel). 2021 Jul 24;21(15):5027. doi: 10.3390/s21155027.

Abstract

Cross-eye gain in cross-eye jamming systems is highly dependent on amplitude ratio and the phase difference between jammer antennas. It is well known that cross-eye jamming is most effective for the amplitude ratio of unity and phase difference of 180 degrees. It is assumed that the instabilities in the amplitude ratio and phase difference can be modeled as zero-mean Gaussian random variables. In this paper, we not only quantitatively analyze the effect of amplitude ratio instability and phase difference instability on performance degradation in terms of reduction in cross-eye gain but also proceed with analytical performance analysis based on the first order and second-order Taylor expansion.

Keywords: Taylor expansion; amplitude ratio; cross-eye; jamming; phase difference.