“…Despite being inferior to coherent schemes in terms of bit-error performance, noncoherent schemes still inherit the advantages of carrying information using chaotic signals and being simple. A number of modulation schemes have been proposed, e.g., the maximum likelihood scheme [11], the tracker-based scheme [12], [13], the extended Kalman filter (EKF) scheme with channel equalization [14], the return-map-based scheme [15], the generalized maximum likelihood scheme for the detection of frequency modulated differential chaos shift keying (FM-DCSK) signals [10], optimal [16], [17] and suboptimal [18] noncoherent detection method for CSK, and so on. In this paper, we consider a general weighted noncoherent CSK communication system and evaluate its performance in additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN) and multipath channel environments.…”