Deep RP-CNN for Burst Signal Detection in Cognitive Radios

This article proposes a convolutional neural network (CNN)-based signal detection scheme using image encoding techniques for burst signals in wireless networks. The conventional signal detection approach based on energy measurement performs poorly when detecting burst signals owing to the short signal length and relatively long sensing duration. To detect the presence of a burst signal, the proposed scheme encodes the received time-series signal into an image that is further fed to a CNN model. For image encoding techniques, recurrence plot algorithms are adopted in the proposed scheme with a CNN. In particular, the proposed scheme achieves the correct detection probability of 99% even in the presence of a short burst signal at SNR= -10 dB.