Code-Shifted Differential Chaos Shift Keying With Code Index Modulation for High Data Rate Transmission

In the general code-shifted differential chaos shift keying (GCS-DCSK) system, multiple bit-streams are simultaneously carried by CS-DCSK signal using Walsh codes. However, its data rate is limited by the available Walsh codes in the Walsh code matrix due to orthogonality constraint of GCS-DCSK signal. In this paper, we propose a new GCS-DCSK scheme with code index modulation (CIM-CS-DCSK), which can achieve higher spectrum efficiency using code index modulation to carry additional bits. In the proposed scheme, the reference chaotic signal is the same as that of GCS-DCSK, and the multiple information bearing signals are simultaneously modulated by the information symbols and the selected Walsh codes with specific indices, which are determined by an integer sequence mapped from information symbols via the natural numbers to k-combinations mapping method. We derive bit error rate of the proposed scheme over the additive white Gaussian noise channel. The numerical results not only verify our analysis but also show the advantage of the proposed scheme over GCS-DCSK. Through analyzing and comparing the numbers of carried bits per transmitted symbol of CIM-CS-DCSK and GCS-DCSK, it is shown that the proposed scheme can obtain higher data rate than GCS-DCSK with the same resource constraints.