Echo State Network based Symbol Detection in Chaotic Baseband Wireless Communication

TL;DR

This paper introduces an ESN-based method for directly predicting optimal decoding thresholds in chaotic wireless communication, improving BER performance and reducing complexity by utilizing future symbol information and avoiding channel estimation errors.

Contribution

The paper proposes a novel ESN-based threshold prediction method that directly estimates the optimal decoding threshold, outperforming previous approaches by leveraging future symbols and eliminating channel estimation.

Findings

Improved bit error rate performance over previous methods.

Reduced computational complexity in symbol decoding.

Effective in practical wireless channel environments.

Abstract

In some Internet of Things (IoT) applications, multi-path propagation is a main constraint of communication channel. Recently, the chaotic baseband wireless communication system (CBWCS) is promising to eliminate the inter-symbol interference (ISI) caused by multipath propagation. However, the current technique is only capable of removing the partial effect of ISI, due to only past decoded bits are available for the suboptimal decoding threshold calculation. However, the future transmitting bits also contribute to the threshold. The unavailable future information bits needed by the optimal decoding threshold are an obstacle to further improve the bit error rate (BER) performance. Different from the previous method using echo state network (ESN) to predict one future information bit, the proposed method in this paper predicts the optimal threshold directly using ESN. The proposed ESN-based threshold prediction method simplifies the symbol decoding operation by removing the threshold calculation from the transmitting symbols and channel information, which achieves better BER performance as compared to the previous method. The reason for this superior result lies in two folds, first, the proposed ESN is capable of using more future symbols information conveyed by the ESN input to get more accurate threshold; second, the proposed method here does not need to estimate the channel information using Least Square method, which avoids the extra error caused by inaccurate channel information estimation. By this way, the calculation complexity is decreased as compared to the previous method. Simulation results and experiment based on a wireless open-access research platform under a practical wireless channel, show the effectiveness and superiority of the proposed method.