MODULATION SIGNAL RECOGNITION BASED ON SELECTIVE KNOWLEDGE TRANSFER

Deep learning-based recognition of radio signal modulation has emerged as a current research hotspot with significant practical potential. However, in practical applications, radio modulation signal data acquisition is complicated to obtain, and label samples are costly and time-consuming to meet the data dependence of deep learning. Transfer learning allows pre-trained networks to be reused on large-scale datasets, making it a kind of solution for modulation signal recognition in limited data. The method of suppressing small singular values in the feature vector is employed in this paper to realize selective knowledge transfer for modulation signal recognition, while stochastic normalization is employed to replace the batch normalization layer to avoid over-fitting. We tested the stochastic normalized selective knowledge transfer method on the RML2016.10A and RML2016.04C datasets, with an SNR of 6dB signal samples, and found that it can lead to average growth of 15.77% and 10.32% when compared to direct training, and 6.1% and 2.73% when compared to vanilla fine-tuning. In addition, we check up under a variety of SNR conditions to ensure that our method is effective.