Advantages, disadvantages and applications of FHSS

Advantages:

There are some advantages of frequency hopping spread spectrum (FHSS) which are given below,

• It can be programmed to avoid some portions of spectrum .
• FHSS needs shorter time for acquisition.
• Very large bandwidth.

Disadvantages:

There are some disadvantages of frequency hopping spread spectrum (FHSS) which are given below,

• It is need complex frequency synthesizers.
• Not useful for range and range rate measurements.
• It requires error correction.

Applications:

There are some applications of frequency hopping spread spectrum (FHSS) which are given below,

• Wireless local area networks (WLAN) standard for Wi-Fi .
• Wireless personal area network (WPAN) standard for Bluetooth .

Frequency hopping spread spectrum