Wavelet Classification for Over-the-Air Non-Orthogonal Waveforms
share
Non-cooperative communications using non-orthogonal multicarrier signals are challenging since self-created inter carrier interference (ICI) exists, which would prevent successful signal classification. Deep learning (DL) can deal with the classification task without domain-knowledge at the cost of training complexity since neural network hyperparameters have to be extensively tuned. Previous work showed that a tremendously trained convolutional neural network (CNN) classifier can efficiently identify feature-diversity dominant signals while it failed when feature-similarity dominates. Therefore, a pre-processing strategy, which can amplify signal feature diversity is of great importance. This work applies single-level wavelet transform to manually extract time-frequency features from non-orthogonal signals. Composite statistical features are investigated and the wavelet enabled two-dimensional time-frequency feature grid is further simplified into a one-dimensional feature vector via proper statistical transform. The dimensionality reduced features are fed to an error-correcting output codes (ECOC) model, consisting of multiple binary support vector machine (SVM) learners, for multiclass signal classification. Low-cost experiments reveal 100 feature-diversity dominant signals and 90 signals, which is nearly 28 classification results.
READ FULL TEXT