Blind Channel Codes Recognition via Deep Learning

This paper considers the blind recognition of the type and the encoding parameters of channel codes from the Gaussian noisy signals. Specifically, based on the recurrent neural network (RNN), the attention mechanism, and the residual neural network (ResNet), three universal recognizers are proposed to identify the type, rate, and length of the target channel codes, with a training set generated by a small portion of all the possible code parameters. The proposed architectures need near zero a priori knowledge about the target channel code, and only require the length of the received signal to be dozen times of the codeword length. Numerical experiments show that the proposed deep learning methods own strong generalization to identify channel codes from the testing samples not generated by the encoding parameters utilized for the training set.