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To solve problems such as high complexity, low accuracy and cumbersome manual extraction of features by traditional machine learning algorithms, a kind of communication signal modulation recognition model based on convolution neural network (CNN) is proposed. In this paper, a convolution neural network combines bidirectional long short-term memory (BiLSTM) with a symmetrical structure to successively extract the frequency domain features and timing features of signals and then assigns importance weights based on the attention mechanism to complete the recognition task. Seven typical digital modulation schemes including 2ASK, 4ASK, 4FSK, BPSK, QPSK, 8PSK and 64QAM are used in the simulation test, and the results show that, compared with the classical machine learning algorithm, the proposed algorithm has higher recognition accuracy at low SNR, which confirmed that the proposed modulation recognition method is effective in noncooperation communication systems.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/sym13122302","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2021,12,7]],"date-time":"2021-12-07T02:48:13Z","timestamp":1638845293000},"page":"2302","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":14,"title":["Modulation Recognition of Communication Signal Based on Convolutional Neural Network"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"13","author":[{"given":"Kaiyuan","family":"Jiang","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Heilongjiang Province Key Laboratory of Laser Spectroscopy Technology and Application, Harbin University of Science and Technology, Harbin 150080, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Xvan","family":"Qin","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Heilongjiang Province Key Laboratory of Laser Spectroscopy Technology and Application, Harbin University of Science and Technology, Harbin 150080, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Jiawei","family":"Zhang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Heilongjiang Province Key Laboratory of Laser Spectroscopy Technology and Application, Harbin University of Science and Technology, Harbin 150080, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-9118-230X","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Aili","family":"Wang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Heilongjiang Province Key Laboratory of Laser Spectroscopy Technology and Application, Harbin University of Science and Technology, Harbin 150080, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2021,12,2]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"Alarabi, A., and Alkishriwo, O.A.S. 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