A modulation recognition method and device for digitally modulated signals
with multi-level magnitudes are provided. The modulation recognition
method includes selecting plural of quantization sizes used to construct
plural of statistic histograms related to the magnitude of a sequence of
data, setting up an off-line processing to extract plural of useful
feature patterns for each modulation type of interest, receiving a
sequence of samples of the modulated object signal and constructing
plural of statistic histograms related to the magnitude of these samples,
and adopting a hierarchical classification method for modulation
recognition. It can be applied to the adaptive-modulation communication
system, software defined radio, digital broadcasting systems and military
communication systems. It can also be integrated with modulation
recognition techniques for other types of modulated signals to function
in a universal demodulator. It recognizes digitally modulated signals of
multi-level magnitudes with low computational complexity in advancing the
efficiency of communication systems.