Systems Engineering and Electronics ›› 2025, Vol. 47 ›› Issue (2): 650-658.doi: 10.12305/j.issn.1001-506X.2025.02.31

• Communications and Networks • Previous Articles    

Parallel carrier index differential chaos shift keying communication scheme

Zhu MENG1, Hua YANG1,*, Xinyu MA1, Guoping JIANG2   

  1. 1. College of Electronic and Optical Engineering & College of Flexible Electronics (Future Technology), Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Nanjing 210023, China
    2. College of Automation & College of Artificial Intelligence, Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Nanjing 210023, China
  • Received:2023-09-11 Online:2025-02-25 Published:2025-03-18
  • Contact: Hua YANG

Abstract:

To improve the bit rate and spectral efficiency of carrier index differential chaos shift keying (DCSK) communication system, a parallel carrier index DCSK communication scheme is proposed. Transmitter performs index modulation on a number of carriers for several times and generates multiple data-bearing signals. These signals are transmitted simultaneously based on orthogonal Walsh codes. To explore the similarity among different data-bearing signals, demodulation is performed based on noise reduction and correlations between different data-bearing signals. Theoretical bit error rate (BER) expressions are derived and simulated in the additive white Gaussion noise and multipath Rayleigh fading channels. Results show that the proposed scheme can significantly improve both the spectral efficiency and BER rate performance.

Key words: differential chaos shift keying (DCSK), carrier index modulation, Walsh codes, spectral efficiency, bit error rate (BER)

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