Chip Averaging Chaotic ON–OFF Keying: A New Non-Coherent Modulation for Ultra Wide Band Direct Chaotic Communication

This letter proposes a new adaptive threshold modulation scheme, called chip averaging chaotic ON–OFF keying (CA-COOK). This new scheme is applied to non-coherent modulations in ultra-wideband direct chaotic communication. Mainly, the proposed method deals with the “estimation problem” caused by the bit energy variation of the chaotic carrier signal. This is completed by adopting the Cell Averaging Constant False Alarm Rate paradigm used in radar, and each bit period is divided into several chips, where one of those chips is bearing the information. Bit-error-rate performance in additive-white-Gaussian-noise, two-path Rayleigh, and IEEE802.15.4a office NLOS channel models, is analyzed and compared with well-known and challenging chaos-based communication systems. Simulation results show the effectiveness of the proposed CA-COOK.

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