Digital chaotic communications

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Michaels, Alan Jason
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Moley, Thomas
Leach, W. Marshall, Jr.
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This dissertation provides the conceptual development, modeling and simulation, physical implementation, and measured hardware results for a practicable digital coherent chaotic communication system. Such systems are highly desirable for robust communications due to the maximal entropy signal characteristics that satisfy Shannon's ideal noise-like waveform and provide optimal data transmission across a flat communications channel. At the core of the coherent chaotic communications system is a fully digital chaotic circuit, providing an efficiently controllable mechanism that overcomes the traditional bottleneck of chaotic circuit state synchronization. The analytical, simulation, and hardware results yield a generalization of direct sequence spread spectrum waveforms, that can be further extended to create a new class of maximal entropy waveforms suitable for optimized channel performance, maximal entropy transmission of chaotically spread amplitude modulated data constellations, and permission-based multiple access systems.
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2009-07-07
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