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Deep learning based modulation classification for 5G and beyond wireless systems

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The 5G and beyond wireless networks will be more dynamic and heterogeneous, which needs to work on multistrand waveforms. One of the most significant challenges in such a dynamic network, especially non cooperated cases, is the identification of particular modulation type, which the transmitter uses at the given time to decode the data successfully. This research proposes a modulation classification algorithm using the combination architectures of modified convolutional neural network. The proposed deep learning architecture is developed by combining the convolutional neural network, dense network, and long short-term memory network (LSTM), which is named as convolutional LSTM dense neural network (CLDNN). Moreover, the mean cumulative sum metric (MCS) is introduced in the pooling layer for improved classification accuracy. Dimensionality reduction through Principal Component Analysis is also applied to minimize the training time, so that the proposed architecture can be adopted for its practical usage. The simulation results prove that the presented CLDNN outperforms an ordinary CNN, while taking less training time.

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  1. School of Electronics Engineering, Vellore Institute of Technology, Vellore, India

    J. Christopher Clement & N. Indira

  2. Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, SRM Institute of Science and Technology, Chennai, India

    P. Vijayakumar

  3. Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, K.S.R. Institute for Engineering and Technology, Tamil Nadu, India

    R. Nandakumar

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Clement, J.C., Indira, N., Vijayakumar, P. et al. Deep learning based modulation classification for 5G and beyond wireless systems. Peer-to-Peer Netw. Appl. 14, 319–332 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12083-020-01003-3

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