3D convolutional neural networks based automatic modulation classification in the presence of channel noise

Abstract Automatic modulation classification is a task that is essentially required in many intelligent communication systems such as fibre‐optic, next‐generation 5G or 6G systems, cognitive radio as well as multimedia internet‐of‐things networks etc. Deep learning (DL) is a representation learning...

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Main Authors: Rahim Khan, Qiang Yang, Inam Ullah, Ateeq Ur Rehman, Ahsan Bin Tufail, Alam Noor, Abdul Rehman, Korhan Cengiz
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Language:English
Published: Wiley 2022-03-01
Series:IET Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1049/cmu2.12269
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author Rahim Khan
Qiang Yang
Inam Ullah
Ateeq Ur Rehman
Ahsan Bin Tufail
Alam Noor
Abdul Rehman
Korhan Cengiz
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Korhan Cengiz
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description Abstract Automatic modulation classification is a task that is essentially required in many intelligent communication systems such as fibre‐optic, next‐generation 5G or 6G systems, cognitive radio as well as multimedia internet‐of‐things networks etc. Deep learning (DL) is a representation learning method that takes raw data and finds representations for different tasks such as classification and detection. DL techniques like Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have a strong potential to process and analyse large chunks of data. In this work, we considered the problem of multiclass (eight classes) classification of modulated signals, which are, Binary Phase Shift Keying, Quadrature Phase Shift Keying, 16 and 64 Quadrature Amplitude Modulation corrupted by Additive White Gaussian Noise, Rician and Rayleigh fading channels using 3D‐CNN architectures in both frequency and spatial domains while deploying three approaches for data augmentation, which are, random zoomed in/out, random shift and random weak Gaussian blurring augmentation techniques with a cross‐validation (CV) based hyperparameter selection statistical approach. Simulation results testify the performance of 10‐fold CV without augmentation in the spatial domain to be the best while the worst performing method happens to be 10‐fold CV without augmentation in the frequency domain and we found learning in the spatial domain to be better than learning in the frequency domain.
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spelling doaj.art-030f9a512f9d49e7adc2e0fcbbe537652022-12-22T02:36:47ZengWileyIET Communications1751-86281751-86362022-03-0116549750910.1049/cmu2.122693D convolutional neural networks based automatic modulation classification in the presence of channel noiseRahim Khan0Qiang Yang1Inam Ullah2Ateeq Ur Rehman3Ahsan Bin Tufail4Alam Noor5Abdul Rehman6Korhan Cengiz7School of Electronics and Information Engineering Harbin Institute of Technology Harbin ChinaSchool of Electronics and Information Engineering Harbin Institute of Technology Harbin ChinaCollege of Internet of Things (IoT) Engineering Hohai University (HHU) Changzhou Campus Changzhou ChinaDepartment of Electrical Engineering Government College University Lahore PakistanSchool of Electronics and Information Engineering Harbin Institute of Technology Harbin ChinaCISTER Research Centre ISEP Politécnico do Porto PortugalDepartment of Computer Science and Engineering Kyungpook National University Daegu South KoreaDepartment of Electrical ‐ Electronics Engineering Trakya University Edirne TurkeyAbstract Automatic modulation classification is a task that is essentially required in many intelligent communication systems such as fibre‐optic, next‐generation 5G or 6G systems, cognitive radio as well as multimedia internet‐of‐things networks etc. Deep learning (DL) is a representation learning method that takes raw data and finds representations for different tasks such as classification and detection. DL techniques like Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have a strong potential to process and analyse large chunks of data. In this work, we considered the problem of multiclass (eight classes) classification of modulated signals, which are, Binary Phase Shift Keying, Quadrature Phase Shift Keying, 16 and 64 Quadrature Amplitude Modulation corrupted by Additive White Gaussian Noise, Rician and Rayleigh fading channels using 3D‐CNN architectures in both frequency and spatial domains while deploying three approaches for data augmentation, which are, random zoomed in/out, random shift and random weak Gaussian blurring augmentation techniques with a cross‐validation (CV) based hyperparameter selection statistical approach. Simulation results testify the performance of 10‐fold CV without augmentation in the spatial domain to be the best while the worst performing method happens to be 10‐fold CV without augmentation in the frequency domain and we found learning in the spatial domain to be better than learning in the frequency domain.https://doi.org/10.1049/cmu2.12269
spellingShingle Rahim Khan
Qiang Yang
Inam Ullah
Ateeq Ur Rehman
Ahsan Bin Tufail
Alam Noor
Abdul Rehman
Korhan Cengiz
3D convolutional neural networks based automatic modulation classification in the presence of channel noise
IET Communications
title 3D convolutional neural networks based automatic modulation classification in the presence of channel noise
title_full 3D convolutional neural networks based automatic modulation classification in the presence of channel noise
title_fullStr 3D convolutional neural networks based automatic modulation classification in the presence of channel noise
title_full_unstemmed 3D convolutional neural networks based automatic modulation classification in the presence of channel noise
title_short 3D convolutional neural networks based automatic modulation classification in the presence of channel noise
title_sort 3d convolutional neural networks based automatic modulation classification in the presence of channel noise
url https://doi.org/10.1049/cmu2.12269
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