Optimum correlator-type receiver design for CSK communication systems

In a chaos-shift-keying (CSK) digital communication system, correlators followed by a comparator are typically used for coherent detection of the signal. Such a detection method, however, does not take the temporal variation of the bit energy into consideration. In this paper, an optimum detection for a binary CSK system is derived, taking into account the temporal variation of the bit energy for minimizing the error rates. Simulations are carried out to compare the performance between the optimum receiver and a typical receiver. The results provide theoretical performance benchmarks of coherent CSK systems for future references.