Performance study of cyclostationary based digital modulation classification schemes

Automatic Modulation Classification (AMC) is a essential component in Cognitive Radio (CR) for recognizing the modulation scheme. Many modulated signals manifest the property of cyclostationarity as a feature so it can be exploited for classification. In this paper, we study the performance of digital modulation classification technique based on the cyclostationary features and different classifiers such as Neural Network, Support Vector Machine, k-Nearest Neighbor, Naive Bayes, Linear Discriminant Analysis and Neuro-Fuzzy classifier. In this study we considered modulations i.e. BPSK, QPSK, FSK and MSK for classification. All classification methods studied using performance matrix including classification accuracy and computational complexity (time). The robustness of these methods are studied with SNR ranging from 0 to 20dB. Based upon the result we found that combining cyclostationary features with Naive Bayes and Linear Discriminant Analysis classifiers leads to provide better classification accuracy with less computational complexity.