On the Generation of Long Binary Sequences With Record-Breaking PSL Values

Abstract

Binary sequences are widely used in various practical fields, such as telecommunications, radar technology, navigation, cryptography, measurement sciences, biology or industry. In this paper, a method to generate long binary sequences (LBS) with low peak sidelobe level (PSL) value is proposed. Having an LBS with length $n$, both the time and memory complexities of the proposed algorithm are $\mathcal{O}(n)$. During our experiments, we repeatedly reach better PSL values than the currently known state of art constructions, such as Legendre sequences, with or without rotations, Rudin-Shapiro sequences or m-sequences, with or without rotations, by always reaching a record-breaking PSL values strictly less than $\sqrt{n}$. Furthermore, the efficiency and simplicity of the proposed method are particularly beneficial to the lightweightness of the implementation, which allowed us to reach record-breaking PSL values for less than a second.