Higher-Order Blind Signal Feature Separation: An Enabling Technology for Battlefield Awareness

Abstract

Higher-order transform blind signal feature classification is discussed for separating bar-shaped, circular, squared, circular-squared, and offset-diamonded constellation patterns of digital linear signals. This technique is used for automatic modulation classification of unknown signals. The higher-order transform technique is powerful in distinguishing the geometrical patterns of the signal constellations and can be used to sort a large amount of modulation schemes into several pattern groups with smaller amount of modulation schemes so a fine modulation classification can be performed more effectively and reliably on each pattern group. Robustness of higher-order cumulants is discussed to show that the constellation pattern separation is less sensitive to variations in signal-to-noise ratio.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Nov 01, 2006
Accession Number
ADA481532

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  • John A. Kosinski
  • Wei Su

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Communities of Interest

  • C4I
  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • Alphabets
  • Carrier Frequencies
  • Classification
  • Constellations
  • Department Of Defense
  • Digital Signal Processing
  • Frequency
  • Gaussian Noise
  • Modulation
  • Numbers
  • Recognition
  • Shape
  • Signal Processing
  • Simulations
  • Situational Awareness
  • Software Defined Radio

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  • Engineering

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