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By extracting the perception function from the positioning system and operating independently, the system can flexibly schedule resources and reduce waste based on the perception results. Through time-frequency joint representation, time-frequency image can be obtained which provides more information for signal recognition, and is difficult for traditional single time\/frequency-domain analysis. We also designed a convolutional neural network (CNN) for signal recognition and a negative learning method to correct the overfitting to noisy data. Finally, a prototype system was built using USRP and LabVIEW for a 2.4 GHz frequency band test. The results show that the system can effectively identify Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and ZigBee signals at the same time, and verified the effectiveness of the proposed signal perception architecture. It can be further promoted to realize SOP perception in almost full frequency domain, and improve the integration and resource utilization efficiency of the SOP positioning system.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/s21237871","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2021,12,1]],"date-time":"2021-12-01T01:45:02Z","timestamp":1638323102000},"page":"7871","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":1,"title":["Design and Implementation of Opportunity Signal Perception Unit Based on Time-Frequency Representation and Convolutional Neural Network"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"21","author":[{"given":"Zhongliang","family":"Deng","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Electronic Engineering, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing 100876, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Hang","family":"Qi","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Artificial Intelligence, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing 100876, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Yanxu","family":"Liu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Electronic Engineering, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing 100876, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Enwen","family":"Hu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Electronic Engineering, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing 100876, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2021,11,26]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"Crespillo, O.G., Andreetti, A., and Grosch, A. 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