Introduction to the statistical theory of differential communication based on chaotic signals

The purpose of this paper is to analyse the statistical characteristics of a Direct Chaotic Differentially Coherent communication scheme based on chaotic radio pulses in a communication channel with additive white Gaussian noise, where the chaotic signal is given by different instantaneous distributions. Methods. To achieve this goal, numerical modelling of the noise immunity of Direct Chaotic Differentially Coherent communication is conducted and compared with the results of analytical research. Results. The regularities associated with the use of chaotic signals with various statistical distributions of instantaneous values were studied. The minimum values of energy per bit to white Gaussian noise power spectral density ratio were obtained, providing the required error probabilities. Conclusion. It is shown that the proposed system works efficiently at high values of processing gain, and as the processing gain increases, the dependence of noise immunity on the specific statistical distribution of the chaotic signal is levelled out.