Design of a High-Data-Rate Differential Chaos-Shift Keying System

In a differential chaos-shift keying (DCSK) system, the reference and information chaotic bearing signals are transmitted in two consecutive time slots and require the presence of delay components in the modulator and demodulator circuits. This system design requires a difficult-to-implement radio-frequency delay line that limits the data rate. The code-shifted DCSK (CS-DCSK) system proposes a solution for these problems by spreading the two chaotic slots by Walsh codes instead of using a time delay and sending them during the same time interval. In this brief, we extend the study of the CS-DCSK system, and we design two versions of a high-data-rate CS-DCSK system, which increase the data rate and can also perform in a multiuser case. The idea to achieve a high data rate is to get the information bits to share the same reference chaotic slot, where their separation is assured and maintained by different chaotic signals. In addition, this new design is not limited to a restricted number of Walsh codes such as CS-DCSK and provides from the properties of the chaotic signal in terms of security and good correlation properties. Finally, the performances of the systems are analyzed.