# Experimental Wireless Communication Using Chaotic Baseband Waveform

## TL;DR

This paper demonstrates that a chaotic baseband waveform can be effectively used in wireless communication systems, improving BER performance over traditional methods in multipath channels by leveraging chaos properties and simplified encoding.

## Contribution

It introduces a practical chaotic waveform encoding method compatible with existing wireless platforms, overcoming broadband conversion challenges and enhancing system performance.

## Key findings

- Better BER performance in static and time-varying channels
- Superior BER under multipath wireless conditions
- Simplified high-speed chaotic encoding algorithm

## Abstract

Some new properties of the chaotic signal have been implemented in communication system applications recently. However, due to the broadband property of the chaotic signal, it is very difficult for a practical transducer or antenna to convert such a broadband signal into a signal that would be suitable for practical band-limited wireless channel. Thus, the use of chaos property to improve the performance of conventional communication system without changing the system configuration becomes a critical issue in communication with chaos. In this paper, chaotic baseband waveform generated by a chaotic shaping filter is used to show that this difficulty can be overcome. The generated continuous-time chaotic waveform is proven to be topologically conjugate to a symbolic sequence, allowing the encoding of arbitrary information sequence into the chaotic waveform. A finite impulse response filter is used to replace the impulse control in order to encode information into the chaotic signal, simplifying the algorithm for high speed communication. A wireless communication system is being proposed using the chaotic signal as the baseband waveform, which is compatible with the general wireless communication platform. The matched filter and decoding method, using chaos properties, enhance the communication system performance. The Bit Error Rate (BER) and computational complexity performances of the proposed wireless communication system are analyzed and compared with the conventional wireless systems. The results show that the proposed chaotic baseband waveform of our wireless communication method has better BER performance in both the static and time-varying wireless channels. The experimental results, based on the commonly-used wireless open-access research platform, show that the BER of the proposed method is superior to the conventional method under a practical wireless multipath channel.