The Performance Analysis of Complex-Valued Neural Network in Radio Signal Recognition

Many techniques have been developed for wireless signal recognition in many fifth generation (5G) enabled derivatives. Many harsh constraints, such as the large amount of model parameters and complex signal characteristics, drives intelligent recognition method in real-world settings. In this paper, we propose a generalizable, practical method for raw IQ signal recognition. Specifically, deep complex-valued convolutional neural network models, including a Complex-valued Visual Geometry Group (VGG) (CvVGG) model and a Complex-valued ResNet (CvRN) model, are proposed for handling raw signal IQ data. We examine the merit of complex-valued neural networks (CvNN) and validate their performance with experiments using two public datasets. With an SNR of 10dB, the proposed algorithm achieves a recognition accuracy of 96% on the RadioML2018.10a dataset. When performing drone recognition, CvNN can achieve a recognition accuracy of 99%. Our experimental results verify that deep complex-valued neural network models can achieve considerably improved accuracy with lower computation complexity and fewer model parameters than their real-valued counterparts.