A chaotic secure communication scheme based on duffing oscillators and frequency estimation

Abstract

This work presents a new technique to securely transmit and retrieve a message signal via chaotic systems. In our system, a two-valued message signal modulates the frequency of a Duffing oscillator sinusoidal term. An observer is used in the receiver side to retrieve the sinusoidal signal that contains the message and a novel frequency estimator is then used to reproduce an approximated estimation of the message signal. The performance of the system is analyzed by means of numerical simulations performed in Matlab.