A MAC Protocol Identification Approach Based on Convolutional Neural Network

The medium access control (MAC) protocol identification is of great application value in cognitive radio. In order to realize the MAC protocol identification with high accuracy and avoid manual feature extraction, we convert the sampled data into the form of spectrogram. Then, a graphical scheme which combines the convolutional neural network (CNN) and the spectrogram is proposed. The simulation includes CNN method and support vector machine (SVM) method. It is suggested that the CNN method has better identification performance.