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Cognitive Anti-Jamming Satellite-To-Ground Communications on NASA's SCaN TestbedMachine learning aided cognitive anti-jamming communications is designed, developed and demonstrated on a live satellite-to-ground link. A wideband autonomous cognitive radio (WACR) is designed and implemented as a hardware-in-the- loop (HITL) prototype. The cognitive engine (CE) of the WACR is implemented on a PC while the software-defined radio (SDR) platform utilized two different radios for spectrum sensing and actual communications. The cognitive engine performs spectrum knowledge acquisition over the complete spectrum range available for the SATCOM system operation and learns an anti-jamming communications protocol to avoid both intentional jammers and inadvertent interferers using reinforcement learning. When the current satellite-to-ground link is jammed, the cognitive engine of the ground receiver directs the satellite transmitter to switch to a new channel that is predicted to be jammer-free for the longest possible duration. The end-to-end, closed-loop system was tested on the NASA Space Communications and Navigation (SCaN) Testbed on the International Space Station (ISS). The experimental results demonstrated the feasibility of satellite-to-ground cognitive anti-jamming communications along with excellent anti-jamming capability of machine learning aided cognitive protocols against several different types of jammers.
Document ID
20190001548
Acquisition Source
Glenn Research Center
Document Type
Conference Paper
Authors
Jayaweera, Sudharman K.
(Bluecom Systems and Consulting, LLC Albuquerque, NM, United States)
Feng, Shuang
(Bluecom Systems and Consulting, LLC Albuquerque, NM, United States)
Mortensen, Dale
(NASA Glenn Research Center Cleveland, OH, United States)
Holland, Abriel
(Bluecom Systems and Consulting, LLC Albuquerque, NM, United States)
Piasecki, Marie
(NASA Glenn Research Center Cleveland, OH, United States)
Evans, Mike
(NASA Glenn Research Center Cleveland, OH, United States)
Christodoulou, Christos
(Bluecom Systems and Consulting, LLC Albuquerque, NM, United States)
Date Acquired
March 14, 2019
Publication Date
November 14, 2018
Subject Category
Space Communications, Spacecraft Communications, Command And Tracking
Report/Patent Number
GRC-E-DAA-TN61333
Meeting Information
Meeting: WInnComm 2018
Location: Melbourne, FL
Country: United States
Start Date: November 15, 2018
End Date: November 16, 2018
Sponsors: Wireless Innovation Forum
Funding Number(s)
CONTRACT_GRANT: NNX17CC01C
WBS: WBS 553323.04.10.09.01.01
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
Public Use Permitted.
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