Abstract:
<jats:p> In this paper, a chaotic communication system based on the combination of Improved–Differential chaos-shift keying (IDCSK) scheme and [Formula: see text] MIMO technique (2T2R), namely 2T2R-IDCSK, is investigated. We point out that there are differences in correlation characteristics between the conventional and time-reversed chaotic sequences. From this aspect, bit-error-rate (BER) performance of the system over an additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN) channel is analyzed taking into account the correlation effect of time-reversed chaotic sequences. BER expressions are verified by Monte-Carlo simulation. The obtained results prove that the 2T2R-IDCSK system performs worse under the correlation effect, however still dramatically outperforms the conventional [Formula: see text] MIMO-DCSK system. </jats:p>