Intelligent Anti-Jamming Decision With Continuous Action and State in Bivariate Frequency Agility Communication System

Abstract

The conventional frequency hopping (FH) system is susceptible to malicious jamming due to the prearranged hopping frequency table. In this paper, we develop a bivariate frequency agility (BFA) communication system to improve the anti-jamming capability by assigning time-varying characteristics to the communication parameters such as fixed frequency interval and hopping rate in conventional FH. Our goal is to find the optimal frequency interval and hopping rate strategy in jamming environment to maximize the signal-to-noise ratio (SINR). We formulate the parameter decision problem as a Markov decision process (MDP). Then, we propose a deep deterministic policy gradient (DDPG) based algorithm for frequency interval selection and hopping rate setting. In addition, to overcome the shortcomings of DDPG, which is prone to fall into local optimum and unstable convergence, an improved deep deterministic policy gradient algorithm with a weighted dual-prioritized experience replay and periodically updated learning rate (IDDPG) is proposed. In IDDPG, on the one hand, the model is trained by replaying more experiences with high immediate reward and large temporal difference error (TD error) to make it more accurate. On the other hand, the learning rate is periodically decayed so that the update rate of the network model varies periodically, resulting in a richer and more diverse exploration. The simulation results under different electromagnetic jamming environment indicates that the anti-jamming performance of the proposed two algorithms outperforms that of the PPER-DQN algorithm and the RFH algorithm.