Deep Learning Based Cognitive Radio Modulation Parameter Estimation

Abstract

Automatic Modulation Classification (AMC) is a critical issue in electromagnetic spatial perception. Currently traditional recognition techniques are difficult to adapt to complex signal situations. Most existing modulation classification algorithms ignore the complementarity between different features and the importance of feature fusion. Based on this, we proposed a method for image feature fusion for AMC that fully uses the complementarity between different image features. The original signal is converted into an image by the Gramian Angular Field (GAF) method, and the GAF image is used as the input to the network, meanwhile the received signal is converted from the Inphase-Quadrature (I-Q) domain to the r-θ domain using the Accumulated Polar Feature conversion technique, and the original signal is feature coded from the r-θ domain and then converted into an image. The fused features of the two images are used as input to the neural network for model training to achieve automatic modulation classification of multiple types of signals. In the evaluation phase, the differences in the recognition effectiveness of the proposed method by different neural networks are discussed. Experiments show that the best performance is achieved using the Swin-Transformer network model, with a more than 90% recognition rate for the modulation method at signal-to-noise ratios greater than 4dB.