Data communication via chaotic encoding and associated security issues

Data communication via the exploitation of chaotic behaviour of the Henon mapping is introduced and evaluated. The link performance is investigated in the presence of additive white Gaussian noise and techniques to enhance the performance are introduced and evaluated. Data security issues are investigated and original results are presented demonstrating that embedding techniques and radial basis functions do not predict the next unmodulated chaotic sample with the degree of accuracy required to decode a modulated signal. It is concluded that this form of chaotic modulation can find numerous applications when data security and privacy are of concern.