SHI Yishuai, SHEN Lei, WANG Shoubin. Specific Emitter Identification Based on Inner–Outer Modulation Feature Fusion and SGE-LATransformer[J/OL]. Telecommunications Science, 2026.
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SHI Yishuai, SHEN Lei, WANG Shoubin. Specific Emitter Identification Based on Inner–Outer Modulation Feature Fusion and SGE-LATransformer[J/OL]. Telecommunications Science, 2026.DOI: 10.11959/j.issn.1000-0801.DXKX260085.
Specific Emitter Identification Based on Inner–Outer Modulation Feature Fusion and SGE-LATransformer
摘要
针对复杂电磁环境下民航通信辐射源个体识别中特征判别性不足、抗噪性能受限及未知个体识别能力下降的问题,提出一种基于内外调制特征融合与 SGE-LATransformer 的辐射源个体识别方法。针对AM-MSK复合调制民航信号中外调制与内调制均由发射链路不同硬件环节共同作用形成、且其物理机制与环境敏感性存在差异的特点,分别构建原始信号时频图以刻画功率放大、幅度控制及包络整形等外调制相关硬件引入的整体调制特征,以及解除外调制后的 MSK 内调制时频图以突出由振荡器、调制器和滤波器非理想性所决定的内在调制特征,并通过拼接融合形成内外调制联合时频特征表示。该融合特征在时频域实现了外调制硬件差异与内调制硬件指纹特征的互补建模,从民航信号调制机理出发,对辐射源个体特征进行了深入挖掘。进一步地,设计引入Spatial Group Enhance(SGE)模块的局部感知Transformer网络(SGE-LATransformer),通过全局—局部特征协同建模及组级空间注意力机制,突出稳定的个体判别区域并抑制噪声引入的无关响应。实验结果表明,所提方法在识别精度、抗噪性能及未知个体识别能力方面均优于传统单一时频特征、双谱及差分双谱方法以及常规深度学习模型,验证了其在民航通信辐射源个体识别任务中的有效性与工程实用价值。
Abstract
To address the problems of insufficient feature discriminability
limited noise robustness
and degraded unknown-emitter identification performance in civil aviation communication specific emitter identification under complex electromagnetic environments
a specific emitter identification method based on inner–outer modulation feature fusion and an SGE-LATransformer was proposed. Considering that
in AM–MSK composite-modulated civil aviation signals
both outer modulation and inner modulation were jointly formed by different hardware stages along the transmitting chain while exhibiting distinct physical mechanisms and environmental sensitivities
the time–frequency representation of the original signal was constructed to characterize the overall modulation characteristics introduced by outer-modulation-related hardware components such as power amplifiers
amplitude control units
and envelope shaping circuits
and the time–frequency representation of the MSK inner modulation
obtained after removing the outer modulation
was constructed to highlight the intrinsic modulation characteristics determined by the non-idealities of oscillators
modulators
and filters; these representations were concatenated to form a joint time–frequency feature of inner and outer modulation. The fused representation enabled complementary modeling of outer-modulation hardware discrepancies and inner-modulation hardware fingerprint features in the time–frequency domain
thereby facilitating in-depth characterization of individual emitter signatures from the perspective of civil aviation signal modulation mechanisms. Furthermore
a local-aware Transformer network incorporating the Spatial Group Enhance (SGE) module
referred to as the SGE-LATransformer
was designed
in which global–local feature collaborative modeling and a group-level spatial attention mechanism were employed to emphasize stable emitter-discriminative regions while suppressing noise-induced irrelevant responses. Experimental results demonstrated that the proposed method outperformed traditional single time–frequency features
bispectrum and differential bispectrum methods
as well as conventional deep learning models in terms of identification accuracy
noise robustness
and unknown-emitter identification capability
validating its effectiveness and engineering practicality for civil aviation communication specific emitter identification.
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