Intelligent Wide-band Spectrum Classifier

Abstract

We introduce a new technique for narrow-band (NB) signal classification in sparsely populated wide-band (WB) spectrum using supervised learning approach. For WB spectrum acquisition, Nyquist rate sampling is required at the receiver's analog-to-digital converter (ADC), hence we use compressed sensing (CS) theory to alleviate such high rate sampling requirement at the receiver ADC. From the estimated WB spectrum, we then extract various spectral features of each of the NB signal. These features are then used to train and classify each NB signal into its respective modulation using the random forest classifier. In the end, we evaluate the performance of the proposed algorithm under different empirical setups and verify its superior performance in comparison to a recently proposed signal classification algorithm.