title: Ergodic chaos-based communication schemes.
abstract: Recent studies have shown the applicability of synchronized chaotic systems to the area of communications in different ways. At the same time synchronization based signal recovery and estimation of parameters severely suffer due to the presence of channel noise. By exploiting the ergodic properties of chaotic signals effectively, a simple technique called the mean-value method is introduced. This method is shown to be capable of estimating chaos system parameters from the transmitted chaotic signal efficiently for a low signal-to-noise ratio. A suitable demodulator has been designed for ergodic chaotic parameter modulation scheme for digital signal communication. Further, the mean-value technique incorporates a noncoherent receiver to recover analog information signal from the chaos masked signal efficiently. It is found that the proposed chaotic masking scheme is robust even in the presence of strong noise. In addition, this scheme has the potential advantage of a very simple hardware realization, which promises enhanced signal recovery performances.