Quadrature MC-DCSK Scheme for Chaos-Based Cognitive Radio

Abstract

In this study, we investigate an enhanced architecture of multicarrier differential chaos-shift keying (MC-DCSK) scheme using quadrature modulation (QM), namely QMC-DCSK. The use of quadrature modulation aims at doubling the data rate over a defined bandwidth and hence improve bandwidth efficiency of the system. In the proposed scheme, the chaotic spreading sequence is transmitted on a predefined frequency while each of the remaining frequencies is phase-shifted at a [Formula: see text] angle in order to produce two quadrature subcarriers located at the same frequency. These subcarriers are modulated by the product of the chaotic spreading sequence and the corresponding bit substreams in parallel. Noncoherent demodulation is carried out in the receiver in order to recover the original data based on the sign of correlation values. Architecture and operation of the conventional and proposed schemes are described. The BER performance over a wireless channel is theoretically derived and then numerically verified. The bit rate, energy and bandwidth efficiencies are evaluated in comparison with those of MC-DCSK. In particular, the application of the proposed scheme to cognitive radio (CR) in the scenario of using multicarrier modulation and chaotic spread-spectrum is discussed and evaluated. The obtained results prove that QMC-DCSK is a fit technique for CR communications.