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Identification of radio signal pulse modulation characteristics

  • Zhenyuan Ji*
  • , Wei Wang
  • , Chunguang Liu
  • *Corresponding author for this work
  • School of Electronics and Information Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology

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Abstract

In the electronic reconnaissance, the identification of radio signal pulse modulation characteristics has vital significance. Firstly, this paper adopts short time fourier transform (STFT) method to analyse the pulse modulation feature of four typical radio reconnaissance signals: linear FM signal (LFM), Tangent FM signal, binary phase coded signal (BPSK), four-phase encoded signal (QPSK). By comparing the time-frenquency curves, the FM signals and the phase modulation signals could be identified. Secondly, wigner-hough transform is used to identify LFM signal and Tangent FM signal according to their different pulse modulation characteristics. Lastly, the identification of BPSK signal and QPSK signal is achieved by extracting the N-th instantaneous frequencies difference. The experimental results show that time-frequency analysis methods that were used in the identification of signal modulation characteristics is feasible and have better noise immunity.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationICSP 2012 - 2012 11th International Conference on Signal Processing, Proceedings
Pages1910-1913
Number of pages4
DOIs
StatePublished - 2012
Externally publishedYes
Event2012 11th International Conference on Signal Processing, ICSP 2012 - Beijing, China
Duration: 21 Oct 201225 Oct 2012

Publication series

NameInternational Conference on Signal Processing Proceedings, ICSP
Volume3

Conference

Conference2012 11th International Conference on Signal Processing, ICSP 2012
Country/TerritoryChina
CityBeijing
Period21/10/1225/10/12

Keywords

  • instantaneous frequency
  • radio signal
  • short time fourier transform
  • wigner-hough transform

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