Automatic Modulation Classification of Digital Communication Signals Using SVM Based on Hybrid Features, Cyclostationary, and Information Entropy
Key Laboratory of Underwater Acoustic Signal Processing of Ministry of Education, Southeast University, Nanjing 210096, China
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Entropy 2019, 21(8), 745; https://doi.org/10.3390/e21080745
Received: 13 July 2019
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Revised: 22 July 2019
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Accepted: 26 July 2019
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Published: 30 July 2019
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Entropy and Information Theory in Acoustics)
Since digital communication signals are widely used in radio and underwater acoustic systems, the modulation classification of these signals has become increasingly significant in various military and civilian applications. However, due to the adverse channel transmission characteristics and low signal to noise ratio (SNR), the modulation classification of communication signals is extremely challenging. In this paper, a novel method for automatic modulation classification of digital communication signals using a support vector machine (SVM) based on hybrid features, cyclostationary, and information entropy is proposed. In this proposed method, by combining the theory of the cyclostationary and entropy, based on the existing signal features, we propose three other new features to assist the classification of digital communication signals, which are the maximum value of the normalized cyclic spectrum when the cyclic frequency is not zero, the Shannon entropy of the cyclic spectrum, and Renyi entropy of the cyclic spectrum respectively. Because these new features do not require any prior information and have a strong anti-noise ability, they are very suitable for the identification of communication signals. Finally, a one against one SVM is designed as a classifier. Simulation results show that the proposed method outperforms the existing methods in terms of classification performance and noise tolerance.
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Keywords:
modulation classification; digital communication signals; cyclostationary; information entropy; SVM
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Wei, Y.; Fang, S.; Wang, X. Automatic Modulation Classification of Digital Communication Signals Using SVM Based on Hybrid Features, Cyclostationary, and Information Entropy. Entropy 2019, 21, 745. https://doi.org/10.3390/e21080745
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Wei Y, Fang S, Wang X. Automatic Modulation Classification of Digital Communication Signals Using SVM Based on Hybrid Features, Cyclostationary, and Information Entropy. Entropy. 2019; 21(8):745. https://doi.org/10.3390/e21080745
Chicago/Turabian StyleWei, Yangjie, Shiliang Fang, and Xiaoyan Wang. 2019. "Automatic Modulation Classification of Digital Communication Signals Using SVM Based on Hybrid Features, Cyclostationary, and Information Entropy" Entropy 21, no. 8: 745. https://doi.org/10.3390/e21080745
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