Design of Chaotic-Based PPM-PI-DCSK Modulation for Wireless Communications

Abstract

In this letter, a joint pulse position modulation (PPM) and permutation index differential chaos shift keying (PI-DCSK) modulation scheme (PPM-PI-DCSK) is proposed to increase the data rate and improve performance. In PPM-PI-DCSK, the bit stream is divided into blocks of mp+mc+1 bits, where mp bits are modulated by PPM, mc bits are modulated by PI modulation, and the last one bit is modulated by DCSK. The theoretical bit error rate (BER) performance of the proposed PPM-PI-DCSK is derived over multipath Rayleigh fading channels and validated via simulations. Simulation results show that the proposed PPM-PI-DCSK outperforms the benchmark DCSK-based schemes. Furthermore, the performance superiority is also demonstrated by the frequency-modulated PPM-PI-DCSK over a typical ultra-wideband (UWB) channel. This demonstrates the superiority and feasibility of the proposed scheme in practical applications.