Specific emitter identification (SEI) is a technology for extracting fingerprint features from a signal and identifying the emitter. In this paper, the author proposes an SEI method based on ensemble neural networks (ENN) and signal graphs, with the following innovations: First, a signal graph is used to show signal data in a non-Euclidean space. Namely, sequence signal data is constructed into a signal graph to transform the sequence signal from a Euclidian space to a non-Euclidean space. Hence, the graph feature (the feature of the non-Euclidean space) of the signal can be extracted from the signal graph. Second, the ensemble neural network is integrated with a graph feature extractor and a sequence feature extractor, making it available to extract both graph and sequence simultaneously. This ensemble neural network also fuses graph features with sequence features, obtaining an ensemble feature that has both features in Euclidean space and non-Euclidean space. Therefore, the ensemble feature contains more effective information for the identification of the emitter. The study results demonstrate that this SEI method has higher SEI accuracy and robustness than traditional machine learning methods and common deep learning methods.
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