Symbol duration dithering for secured chaotic communications

摘要

A system for communicating a sequence of information symbols using a chaotic sequence spread spectrum signal. The system includes a transmitter (402) for transmitting a signal including the information symbols, the information symbols encoded into the signal using a first chaotic sequence of chips generated at the transmitter. The system also includes a receiver (404) configure to receive the signal and extract the information symbols from the signal, the information symbols extracted using a second chaotic sequence of chips generated at the receiver. In the system, the first and the second chaotic sequences are identical and synchronized in time and frequency, each of the sequence of symbols is associated with a randomly generated threshold symbol energy value, and the portion of chips in the first and the second chaotic sequences associated with each of the plurality of information symbols is selected based on the associated threshold symbol energy value.