Trends in Automatic Modulation Classification for Advanced Data Communication Networks

Automatic Modulation Classification (AMC) in communication networks has been the hot area of research for last two decades. The initial interests were mainly confined to the military applications. With proliferation of Software Defined Radio and Cognitive Radio in advanced 3G and 4G data communication networks , the research area also spread up in commercial applications. Research so far evolved several multidisciplinary techniques offering solution to AMC problem under different conditions. However for a new researcher approaching the AMC problem for the first time there is no paper available currently that reconcile all available techniques till recent date. In this paper, we addressed this gap and took up an exhaustive survey starting from very early methods to most promising recent techniques that are being applied to AMC problem. Performance limitations of different techniques researched is discussed to identify further direction for future research work in this area.

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