Abstract
The analytically solvable chaotic system (ASCS) is a promising chaotic system in chaos communication and radar fields. In this paper, we propose a maximum likelihood estimator (MLE) to estimate the frequency of ASCS, then a difference-integral (DI) detector is designed with the estimated frequency, and the symbols encoded in the signal are recovered. In the proposed method, the frequency parameter is estimated by an MLE based on the square power of the received signal. The Cramer-Rao lower bound in blind frequency estimation and the bit error performance in symbol detection are analyzed to assess the performance of the proposed method. Numerical results validate the analysis and demonstrate that the proposed symbol detector achieves the error performance with a little cost of 1 dB compared to the coherent detector. The robustness of the proposed method towards parameters is also verified through simulations.