Spectrum-Efficient Analog Pulse Index Modulation for High-Volume Wireless Data Telemetry

Spectrum-efficient, high-density, and high-speed data transmission are essential to store and exchange sensitive information through Internet of Things (IoT) networks. However, the resource-constrained IoT devices and the limited existing frequency spectrum pose a significant challenge to employing the more efficient technique for the next-generation technology. This article presents an innovative pulse index modulation (PIM) architecture with a randomization technique for analog pulse-based packet-less high-volume data transmission. The pulse-based compression simplifies the encoding and decoding schemes for short-range wireless telemetry. The pulse randomization technique creates the pulse blinding by reordering the pulse positions and adds an extra level of physical-layer security. This article describes the design, simulation, and prototype development of PIM to validate the feasibility and compatibility of pulse-based data telemetry using the standard architecture. Simulation results show that the proposed PIM increases the data compression ratio by 2.61 times and improves the processing time by 5.56 time compared to the Huffman coding for a 3-bit system. Test results show that the BER is \sim 7.5\,\,\times \,\,10^{-4} at 10.0 dB SNR, which satisfies the lower bound for data communication and increases the transmission speed k -times by supporting {2^{k}*k} bits data using {2^{k}} number of pulses, where k is a nonnegative integer number. The proposed PIM has the potential to improve data rate with added security to support the next-generation IoT networks.