Cyclostationarity-based joint domain approach to blind recognition of SCLD and OFDM signals Sparse Sensing in Radar and Sonar Signal Processing

Abstract

The cyclostationarity feature of modulated signals was widely applied for signal detection and parameter estimation. Previous studies on blind recognition of the modulation type of a received signal are generally performed in a single domain. This paper presents a new recognition approach through establishing a joint delay-cyclic frequency feature decision function, which exploits the different features of the second-order cyclic cumulants for orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) signals and single carrier linear digitally modulated (SCLD) signals, in both time delay domain and cyclic frequency domain. We also propose a new statistical test method to classify the two signals under the constraint of possible error recognition, with which an optimal threshold to distinguish OFDM and SCLD signals with the highest accuracy can be theoretically derived. The simulation results are consistent with the performance analysis. © 2014 Sun et al.; licensee Springer.