Systems Engineering and Electronics ›› 2023, Vol. 45 ›› Issue (10): 3312-3320.doi: 10.12305/j.issn.1001-506X.2023.10.36

• Communications and Networks • Previous Articles    

Waveform recognition of unmanned aerial vehicle swarm communication in complex multipath environment

Ruping ZHAI, Shuheng ZHANG, Jiarong PING   

  1. School of Electronics and Information Engineering, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing 210016, China
  • Received:2022-08-10 Online:2023-09-25 Published:2023-10-11
  • Contact: Ruping ZHAI

Abstract:

The electromagnetic environment of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) swarm communication is complex, and phenomena such as user interference, multipath fading and frequency shift frequently occur. The performance of the waveform recognition algorithm under the traditional additive white Gaussion noise channel is greatly reduced in this scenario. To solve this problem above, a waveform recognition algorithm for UAV swarm communication in complex multipath environment is proposed. Firstly, a multipath fading channel model for UAV swarm communication under Alpha pulse interference is established. Secondly, aiming at the problem of Alpha pulse interference among swarm users, the generalized cyclic mean and generalized cyclic spectrum features of the signals are extracted, and the waveform feature matrix of UAV swarm communication in complex multipath environment is established. Finally, the sparse autoencoder deep neural network UAV swarm communication waveform recognition model is established. The simulation results show that the proposed algorithm has strong robustness in the complex environment of Alpha pulse interference, multipath fading and frequency shift, and realizes the recognition of seven kinds of UAV swarm communication waveforms. At the same time, the recognition accuracy of more than 80% can be guaranteed when the signal to noise ratio is -10 dB.

Key words: unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) swarm, modulation recognition, Alpha pulse interference, sparse autoencoder

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