Chaotic modulation based on the combination of CPPM and CPWM

In this paper, we propose a novel method of chaotic modulation based on the combination of Chaotic Pulse Position Modulation (CPPM) and Chaotic Pulse Width Modulation (CPWM). This combination looks very promising for the improvement of information privacy in chaos-based digital communications. In the CPPM+CPWM method, each pulse is a chaotic symbol which carries binary information of two bits corresponding to its position and width, where the position is determined by the interval between rising edge of the current pulse compared to the previous one and the width is determined by the duration between the rising edge and the falling edge of the same pulse. This offers the increase of bit rate, bandwidth efficiency and privacy in comparison with the method of CPPM. The schemes of Modulation and Demodulation (MoDem) of CPPM+CPWM are proposed, designed and analyzed that based on the conventional schemes of CPPM. The numerical simulation in time domain of the system of CPPM+CPWM MoDem is implemented in Matlab/Simulink.