Iranian Journal of Electrical and Electronic Engineering (Dec 2008)

A Chaos-Based Communication Scheme Using Proportional and Proportional-Integral Observers

  • R. Kharel,
  • K. Busawon,
  • Z. Ghassemlooy

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 4, no. 4
pp. 127 – 139

Abstract

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In this paper, we propose a new chaos-based communication scheme using the observers. The novelty lies in the masking procedure that is employed to hide the confidential information using the chaotic oscillator. We use a combination of the addition and inclusion methods to mask the information. The performance of two observers, the proportional observer (P-observer) and the proportional integral observer (PI-observer) is compared that are employed as receivers for the proposed communication scheme. We show that the P-observer is not suitable scheme since it imposes unpractical constraints on the messages to be transmitted. On the other hand, we show that the PI-observer is the better solution because it allows greater flexibility in choosing the gains of the observer and does not impose any unpractical restrictions on the message.

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