학술논문

Robust classification of modulation types using spectral features applied to HMM
Document Type
Conference
Source
MILCOM 97 MILCOM 97 Proceedings MILCOM 97 MILCOM 97 Proceedings. 3:1377-1381 vol.3 1997
Subject
Components, Circuits, Devices and Systems
Engineered Materials, Dielectrics and Plasmas
Fields, Waves and Electromagnetics
Aerospace
Communication, Networking and Broadcast Technologies
Photonics and Electrooptics
Robustness
Vectors
Hidden Markov models
Signal generators
Frequency shift keying
Digital modulation
Amplitude shift keying
Binary phase shift keying
Quadrature phase shift keying
Computer simulation
Language
Abstract
A robust method for asynchronous modulation recognition without a priori knowledge about modulation and transmission parameters is proposed. The generated features are based on modulation dependent spectral lines observed in the estimated spectra of m-th law transformations of the received signal. A twofold robust normalisation scheme is introduced, which is adequate to build significant feature vectors for linear and nonlinear (FSK) digital modulation types. The series of spectral line occurrences is mapped by a vector quantiser to a series of discrete states. Following this the feature vectors are classified using separate hidden-Markov models (HMM) for each modulation type. The classification results for the modulation types ASK, BPSK, QPSK, 2FSK, MSK and CW, obtained from computer simulations, prove the robustness of the classifier. Furthermore, it clearly outperforms a decision-tree based classifier.