Chaos Communication Over Noisy Channels

The problem of transmitting digital information using chaotic signals over a channel with Gaussian white noise perturbation is introduced rigorously. It is shown that discrete time base-band chaotic communication systems with discrete time Gaussian white noise in the channel are sufficiently general in this context. The optimal receiver is given explicitly in terms of conditional probabilities. For the example of chaos shift keying using iterations of the tent map, the optimal classifier is constructed explicitly. Finally, it is shown how previously published methods, in particular those based on chaos synchronization, fit into this framework.