Deep Learning for Wireless Dynamics

TL;DR

This paper introduces a deep learning approach for predicting high-resolution radio channel variations over time, significantly outperforming traditional methods and improving precoding performance in wireless systems.

Contribution

It proposes a novel data-driven deep learning framework using UNet architectures for high-resolution channel prediction, outperforming Kalman filter-based methods.

Findings

52% lower prediction error than Kalman filter

Reduces performance loss due to channel aging by 71%

Deep learning approach outperforms traditional methods in wireless channel prediction

Abstract

This paper aims to predict radio channel variations over time by deep learning from channel observations without knowledge of the underlying channel dynamics. In next-generation wideband cellular systems, multicarrier transmission for higher data rate leads to the high-resolution predicting problem. By leveraging recent advances of deep learning in high-resolution image processing, we propose a purely data-driven deep learning (DL) approach to predicting high-resolution temporal evolution of wideband radio channels. In order to investigate the effect of architectural design choices, we develop and study three deep learning prediction models, namely, baseline, image completion, and next-frame prediction models using UNet. Numerical results show that the proposed DL approach achieves a 52% lower prediction error than the traditional approach based on the Kalman filter (KF) in mean absolute errors. To quantify impact of channel aging and prediction on precoding performance, we also evaluate the performance degradation due to outdated and predicted channel state information (CSI) compared to perfect CSI. Our simulations show that the proposed DL approach can reduce the performance loss due to channel aging by 71% through adapting precoding vector to changes in radio channel while the traditional KF approach only shows a 27% reduction.