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So, the accuracy improvement of the designed modulation recognition models is limited, and the adaptability to environmental changes is poor. The method proposed in this paper actively utilizes common synchronous signals in underwater acoustic communication as detection signals to achieve passive time reversal without external signals and designs a passive time reversal-autoencoder to suppress multipath effects, enhance signals\u2019 features, and improve modulation recognition accuracy and environmental adaptability. Firstly, synchronous signals are identified and estimated. Subsequently, a passive time reversal-autoencoder is designed to enhance power spectrum and square spectrum features. Finally, a modulation classification is performed using a convolutional neural network. The model is trained in simulation channels generated by Bellhop and tested in actual channels which are different from the training period. The average recognition accuracy of the six modulated signals is improved by 10% compared to existing passive modulation recognition methods, indicating good environmental adaptability as well.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/s23135997","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2023,6,29]],"date-time":"2023-06-29T01:43:13Z","timestamp":1688002993000},"page":"5997","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":5,"title":["Modulation Recognition Method for Underwater Acoustic Communication Signals Based on Passive Time Reversal-Autoencoder with the Synchronous Signals"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"23","author":[{"given":"Yalin","family":"Hu","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Marine Science and Technology, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Jixin","family":"Bao","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Marine Science and Technology, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Wanzhong","family":"Sun","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Marine Science and Technology, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-3026-4416","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Xiaomei","family":"Fu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Marine Science and Technology, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2023,6,28]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"964","DOI":"10.1109\/JSYST.2022.3207377","article-title":"Efficient convolutional networks for robust automatic modulation classification in OFDM-based wireless systems","volume":"17","author":"Nguyen","year":"2023","journal-title":"IEEE Syst. 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