Universal and Complementary Representation Learning for Automatic
Modulation Recognition
Abstract
Automatic Modulation Recognition (AMR) is a fundamental research topic
in the field of signal processing and wireless communication, which has
widespread applications in cognitive radio, non-collaborative
communication, etc. However, current AMR methods are mostly based on
unimodal inputs, which suffer from incomplete information and local
optimization. In this paper, we focus on the modality utilization in
AMR. The proxy experiments show that different modalities achieve a
similar recognition effect in most scenarios, while the personalities of
different inputs are complementary to each other for particular
modulations. Therefore, we mine the universal and complementary
characteristics of the modality data in the domain-agnostic and
domain-specific aspects, yielding the Universal and Complementary
subspaces accordingly (dubbed as UCNet). To facilitate the subspace
construction, we propose universal and complementary losses accordingly,
where the former minimizes the heterogeneous feature gap by an
adversarial constraint and the latter consists of an orthogonal
constraint between universal and complementary features. The extensive
experiments on the RadioML2016.10A dataset demonstrate the effectiveness
of UCNet, which has achieved the highest recognition accuracy of
93.2% at 10 dB, and the average accuracy is 92.6% at high SNR
greater than zero.