A Novel Coupled Code Shifted M-ary Differential Chaos Shift Keying Modulation

Abstract

In this paper, a novel coupled code shifted M-ary differential chaos shift keying modulation scheme is proposed as a simple and low-cost solution to reference removal. In this scheme, only two information-bearing signals are transmitted. Both signals are modulated by selected Walsh code sequences with specific indices determined by the index bits, and one of them also carries an additional M-ary information symbol. Since these two information-bearing signals are coupled by the same chaotic message bearer, data bits can be easily recovered according to the correlation between these two signals so that the transmission of reference signals can be completely avoided. Theoretical Bit Error Rate (BER) expressions are derived over the additive white Gaussian noise and multipath Rayleigh fading channels. Furthermore, simulations and comparisons indicate that the proposed system can achieve better BER performance with lower complexity.