The invention discloses a non-cooperative OFDM user number
estimation method, and belongs to the field of communication. According to the method, the orthogonality between OFDM subcarriers is utilized, the
signal is decomposed into a plurality of subcarriers through FFT, the power feature, the high-order cumulant feature and the high-power spectrum line feature of the
signal are calculated according to the characteristics of different
signal modulation
modes and power distribution between users,
feature extraction is conducted on the signal, and blind recognition of the signal can be achieved without priori conditions. According to the method, OFDM user number
estimation is carried out based on AP
affinity propagation clustering, and the number of clusters does not need to be specified in advance. According to the method, the dimension reduction operation is utilized, and the high-dimension data is subjected to
visualization processing. When the dimension of a
classification result is relatively high, a
principal component analysis (PCA)
algorithm is utilized to carry out
linear dimension reduction,
original data is projected to a new coordinate
system, a direction with the maximum variance is selected as a principal component, and an important component is selected to convert high-dimensional data into two-dimensional data or three-dimensional data, so that
visualization is realized, and cluster targets in the data can be found.