On the performance of chaos shift keying in MIMO communications systems

This paper carries out the first-ever study of the feasibility of using chaos shift keying (CSK) in a Multiple-Input, Multiple-Output (MIMO) channel. To that end, an Alamouti space time code scheme is combined with the CSK system for 2 transmit and 2 receiver antennas. Once the design of CSK-MIMO system is presented, the performance of the proposed system is analyzed in a mono-user case. An exact computation approach of the BER expression based on the probability density function of the bit energy of the chaotic sequence is presented. Simulation results prove the accuracy of our BER computation methodology.