Abstract
Automatic modulation classification (AMC) plays an important role in
various applications such as cognitive radio and dynamic spectrum
access. Many research works have been exploring deep learning (DL) based
AMC, but they primarily focus on single-carrier signals. With the advent
of various multicarrier waveforms, the authors propose to revisit
DL-based AMC to consider the diversity and complexity of these novel
transmission waveforms in this letter. Specifically, the authors develop
a novel representation of multicarrier signals and use suitable networks
for classification. In addition, to cope with non-target signals,
support vector data description (SVDD) is applied with the activations
of the networks’ hidden layer. Experimental results demonstrate the
effectiveness of the proposed scheme.