FHSS
       Frequency Hopping Spread Spectrum (WLAN)
       

Frequency-Hopping Spread Spectrum
FHSS

    (FH, FHSS) A variation of spread spectrum
   communications in which a sequence of pseudo random numbers
   control a frequency synthesizer, generating different
   carrier frequencies that "hop around" in the desired frequency
   range.  The receiver tunes to the same sequence of carrier
   frequencies in synchronisation with the transmitter.

   Frequency hopping spread spectrum was invented by Hedy Lamarr
   ("the most beautiful girl in the world", Samson and Delilah
   etc.) and the composer George Antheil.  They held a patent
   filed in 1942.

   (2009-07-01)