A deep learning method based on convolutional neural network for automatic modulation classification of wireless signals

• DOI: 10.1007/s11276-018-1667-6
• Publication Date: 2018-03-05T11:21:26Z
• Authors: Yu Xu; Dezhi Li; Zhenyong Wang; Qing Guo; Wei Xiang
• Keywords: 0202 electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering; 02 engineering and technology

Automatic modulation classification (AMC) plays an important role in many fields to identify the modulation type of wireless signals. In this paper, we introduce deep learning to signal recognition. Based on architecture analysis of the convolutional neural network (CNN), we used real signal data generated by instruments as dataset, and proposed an improved CNN architecture to achieve compatible recognition accuracy of modulation classification. According to various conditions of signal noise ratio (SNR), we test the proposed CNN architecture with the real sampled signals. Experiments results show that the high-layer network is not necessary for modulation recognition with high SNR signals. The proposed CNN architecture has higher average classification accuracy than RESNET and is more compatible for modulation classification of signals with lower SNR.