Classification of qam signals for multicarrier systems

In this paper we highlight the benefit of automatic modulation classification (AMC) for quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM) constellations in the context of multicarrier transmission systems. Increasing computation power of multicarrier systems transceivers enables runtime adaptation of transmission parameters to cope with sudden changes of the noise conditions. AMC is a promising technique to verify that runtime adaptation was successful, and it can also be used in novel adaptation techniques. Using AMC, the modulation order for each subcarrier of the multicarrier system can be blindly detected, which reduces communication overhead during adaptation. In this work, we give an overview of existing AMC techniques, develop several novel low-complexity approaches and evaluate their performance.