Sistemas de comunicação utilizando transmissão OFDM baseado em wavelets com subportadoras com modulação caótica.

Abstract

A chaotic signal based communication system represents a new wideband transmission model. Nonetheless, chaotic based systems have not yet shown a distinguished performance in terms of bit error rate when transmitted in narrow band channels or in the presence of impairments in comparison to the traditional communications systems. The focus of this work relies on an experiment that overcomes this issue, through the conjugation of the characteristics of traditional communications based in orthogonal carriers and those originated from chaotic signals. More clearly, the chaotic modulation is employed in sub-carriers of traditional OFDM (Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing). This novel modulation scheme is implemented through the generation of chaotic sequences in a one dimensional map controlled by a parameter p which defines the central region of the map as a guard interval, the slope of the delimiting lines and the chaotic behavior of the generated sequence. This parameter also determines directly the amplitude of each symbol, making it more irregular and less predictable, avoiding the detection by eavesdroppers and increasing the security level of the link to be transmitted. Besides the change in the traditional OFDM modulator from 4QAM to chaotic one, the Fast Fourier Transform (IFFT /FFT) will be replaced by Wavelets Transform IDWT/DWT), in order to overcome some conventional OFDM s disadvantages Additionally a quadrature chaotic OFDM system was conceived, where the chaotic modulation was performed in a constellation I and Q that was submitted to the same channel conditions as the previous one. Both systems were simulated in a MATLAB® environment using the built in functions at the Communications System Toolbox and its behavior analyzed using the BER-Bit error rate versus SNR-Signal noise ratio. The obtained results were reported and scrutinized.