FCN-Based Carrier Signal Detection in Broadband Power Spectrum

Carrier signal detection has been a problem for a long time, which is the first step for blind signal processing. In this paper, we propose a new method for carrier signal detection in the broadband power spectrum based on the fully convolutional network (FCN). FCN is a deep learning method and used in semantic image segmentation tasks. By regarding the broadband power spectrum sequence as a one-dimensional (1D) image and each subcarrier on the broadband as the target object, we can transform the carrier signal detection problem on the broadband into a semantic segmentation problem on a 1D image without prior knowledge. We design a 1D deep convolutional neural network (CNN) based on FCN to classify each point on broadband power spectrum array into two classes: subcarrier or noise, and then we can easily locate the subcarrier signals' position on the broadband power spectrum. We train the deep CNN on a simulation dataset and validate it on a real satellite broadband power spectrum dataset. The experimental results show that our method can effectively detect the subcarrier signal in the broadband power spectrum and achieve higher accuracy than the slope tracing method.