Cross Correction and Chaotic Shape-Forming Filter Based Quadrature Multi-Carrier Differential Chaos Shift Keying Communication

In this paper, an improved Quadrature Multi-carrier Differential Chaos Shift Keying (QMC-DCSK) based on Chaotic Shape-forming Filter (CSF) and Cross Correction (CC) is proposed. The chaotic signal generated by CSF is used as reference spreading sequence in QMC-DCSK. Quadrature multi-carriers are used to carry the reference and multiple information bearing signals simultaneously in order to improve the Bit Transmission Rate (BTR). By this way, the proposed system is able to transmit
$2M-1$
bits Traditional Data Stream (TDS) during one traditional DCSK bit duration, where
$M$
is the number of carrier frequencies. Meanwhile, the reference signal transmits Additional Data Stream (ADS) encoded by CSF together with
$2M-1$
identical or inverse data stream carried by the rest
$2M-1$
channels (information bearing signals). By this system configuration, the channel redundance can be used to improved bit error rate (BER) performance of ADS, after decoding TDS. In turn, the TDS reliability can also be improved by checking most ADS polarity of the corresponding carrier. This process is referred to as CC. The contribution of this work lies in the CC operation, by which the reliability of both TDS and ADS is improved significantly. It is the CSF and multi-carrier that make CC possible. The analytical BER is derived for the proposed method. The merits of the proposed system include, first, it improves the BTR as compared to that of QMC-DCSK, because ADS conveys more information bits; second, the ADS reliability is improved dramatically because the
$\text{2}\,M$
duplication can be used to improve the signal to noise ratio; third, the TDS reliability is improved as well because the information bits conveyed by each carrier frequency is enhanced and corrected by the
$\text{2}\,M$
repetitions. By this way, not only TDS and ADS are transmitted (i.e., the higher BTR is achieved), but also both reliability are improved (i.e. the lower BER is achieved). In order to testify the feasibility and superiority of the proposed method, simulation and wireless open-access research platform (WARP) experiment are conducted. The simulation and experiment results show that the proposed method is superior to other comparison methods.