Exploiting the natural redundancy of chaotic signals in communication systems

Chaotic signals can be used as carriers of information in communication sys tems. In this work we describe a simple encoding method that allows one to map any desired bit sequence into a chaotic waveform. The redundancy of the resulting information carrying signal enables us to devise a novel signal reconstruction technique that is able to recover relatively large parts of the chaotic signal starting from just a few samples of it. We show that thi s technique allows one to increase both the transmission reliability and th e transmission rate of a communication system even in the presence of noise .