All digital non-conventional chaotic communication systems for resilient communications and signaling

Abstract

An all-digital spread-spectrum type communications system employing chaotic symbol modulation. The system includes a transmitter having a symbol mapper that converts a series of information bits to a series of bit symbols, a digital chaos modulator employing an M-ary chaotic shift keying (M-CSK) architecture for chaotically spreading the bit symbols in the digital domain, where the chaos modulator includes a separate chaos generator for each of the M-CSK symbols, and a digital-to-analog converter (DAC) for converting the chaotic modulated bit symbols to an analog signal for transmission. The system also includes a receiver responsive to the analog signal from the transmitter and generating a received signal therefrom. The receiver performs signal acquisition and tracking on the received signal using a look-up table, a transmitter ID and a receiver ID in the received signal, de-spreading and de-modulation on the received signal and bit removal from the symbols in the received signal.