Prototype of an automatic digital modulation classifier embedded in a real-time spectrum analyzer

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

Volumn 59, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 2639-2651

  De Vito, Luca ^a   Rapuano, Sergio ^a   Villanacci, Maurizio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SANNIO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Digital modulations; frequency division multiplexing; phase shift keying (PSK); quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM); signal analysis; signal processing

Indexed keywords

AMPLITUDE SHIFT KEYING; AUTOMATIC DIGITAL MODULATION; DIGITAL MODULATIONS; DISCRETE MULTI-TONE; M-ARY FREQUENCY SHIFT KEYING; MODULATION PARAMETERS; OPERATING CONDITION; PHASE-SHIFT KEYING (PSK); REAL-TIME SPECTRUM ANALYZERS; SINGLE CARRIER MODULATION;

AMPLITUDE MODULATION; CLASSIFIERS; FREQUENCY BANDS; MICROWAVE SPECTROGRAPHS; MULTIPLEXING; ORTHOGONAL FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLEXING; PHASE SHIFT; SIGNAL ANALYSIS; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; SPECTRUM ANALYZERS;

QUADRATURE AMPLITUDE MODULATION;

EID: 77956764290     PISSN: 00189456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIM.2010.2045447     Document Type: Article

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