Feature-Based Digital Modulation Recognition Using Compressive Sampling

Compressive sensing theory can be applied to reconstruct the signal with far fewer measurements than what is usually considered necessary, while in many scenarios, such as spectrum detection and modulation recognition, we only expect to acquire useful characteristics rather than the original signals, where selecting the feature with sparsity becomes the main challenge. With the aim of digital modulation recognition, the paper mainly constructs two features which can be recovered directly from compressive samples. The two features are the spectrum of received data and its nonlinear transformation and the compositional feature of multiple high-order moments of the received data; both of them have desired sparsity required for reconstruction from subsamples. Recognition of multiple frequency shift keying, multiple phase shift keying, and multiple quadrature amplitude modulation are considered in our paper and implemented in a unified procedure. Simulation shows that the two identification features can work effectively in the digital modulation recognition, even at a relatively low signal-to-noise ratio