A new approach for modulation recognition based on ant colony algorithm
Shu Liu, Hongyuan Wang · Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE · 2007
A New Approach based on ant colony algorithm for the automatic modulation recognition of communications signals is presented. This approach can discriminate between continuous wave (CW), Amplitude Modulation (AM), Frequency Modulation (FM), Frequency Shift Keying (FSK), Binary Phase Shift Keying (BPSK) and Quaternary Phase Shift Keying (QPSK) modulations. Requirements for a priori knowledge of the signals are minimized by the inclusion of an efficient carrier frequency estimator and low sensitivity to variations in the sampling epochs. Computer simulations indicate good performance on an AWGN channel, even at signal-to-noise ratios as low as 5 dB. This compares favorably with the performance obtained with most algorithms based on pattern recognition techniques.