In multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems, it is crucial of utilizing the available channel state information (CSI) at the transmitter for precoding to improve the performance of frequency division duplex (FDD) networks. One of the mainchallenges is to compress a large amount of CSI in CSI feedback transmission in massive MIMO systems. In this paper, we propose a deep learning (DL)-based approach that uses a deep recurrent neural network (RNN) to learn temporal correlation and adopts depthwise separable convolution to shrink the model. The feature extraction module is also elaborately devised by studyingdecoupled spatio-temporal feature representations in different structures. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed approach outperforms existing DL-based methods in terms of recovery quality and accuracy, which can also achieve remarkable robustness at low compression ratio (CR).
Jožef Stefan Institute（约热夫·斯蒂芬研究所）；Jožef Stefan International Postgraduate School（约热夫·斯蒂芬国际研究生院）
Multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) is an enabling technology to meet the growing demand for faster and more reliable communications in wireless networks with a large number of terminals, but it can also be applied for position estimation of a terminal exploiting multipath propagation from multiple antennas. In this paper, we investigate new convolutional neural network (CNN) structures for exploiting MIMO-based channel state information (CSI) to improve indoor positioning. We evaluate and compare the performance of three variants of the proposed CNN structure to five NN structures proposed …
Beijing National Research Center for Information Science and Technology (BNRist)（北京信息科学与技术国家研究中心）；Tsinghua University（清华大学）
In massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) system, user equipment (UE) needs to send downlink channel state information (CSI) back to base station (BS). However, the feedback becomes expensive with the growing complexity of CSI in massive MIMO system. Recently, deep learning (DL) approaches are used to improve the reconstruction efficiency of CSI feedback. In this paper, a novel feedback network named CRNet is proposed to achieve better performance via extracting CSI features on multiple resolutions. An advanced training scheme that further boosts the network performance is also introduc…
Recently channel state information (CSI) measurements from commercial multi input multi output (MIMO) WiFi systems have been ubiquitously used for different wireless sensing applications. However, the phase of the CSI realizations is usually distorted severely by phase errors due to the hardware impairments, which significantly reduce the sensing performance. In this paper, we directly utilize the modeling of the phase distortions caused by the hardware impairments and propose an adaptive CSI estimation approach based on Kalman filter (KF) with maximum a posteriori (MAP) estimation that consid…
Massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems require downlink channel state information (CSI) at the base station (BS) to better utilize the available spatial diversity and multiplexing gains. However, in a frequency division duplex (FDD) massive MIMO system, CSI feedback overhead degrades the overall spectral efficiency. Convolutional neural network (CNN)-based CSI feedback compression schemes has received a lot of attention recently due to significant improvements in compression efficiency; however, they still require reliable feedback links to convey the compressed CSI information …
Forward channel state information (CSI) often plays a vital role in scheduling and capacity-approaching transmission optimization for massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) communication systems. In frequency division duplex (FDD) massive MIMO systems, forwardlink CSI reconstruction at the transmitter relies critically on CSI feedback from receiving nodes and must carefully weigh the tradeoff between reconstruction accuracy and feedback bandwidth. Recent studies on the use of recurrent neural networks (RNNs) have demonstrated strong promises, though the cost of computation and memory re…
In order to achieve reliable communication with a high data rate of massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems in frequency division duplex (FDD) mode, the estimated channel state information (CSI) at the receiver needs to be fed back to the transmitter. However, the feedback overhead becomes exorbitant with the increasing number of antennas. In this paper, a two stages low rank (TSLR) CSI feedback scheme for millimeter wave (mmWave) massive MIMO systems is proposed to reduce the feedback overhead based on model-driven deep learning. Besides, we design a deep iterative neural networ…
Channel state information (CSI) reporting is important for multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) transmitters to achieve high capacity and energy efficiency in frequency division duplex (FDD) mode. CSI reporting for massive MIMO systems could consume excessive bandwidth and degrade spectrum efficiency. Deep learning (DL)-based compression integrated with channel correlations have demonstrated success in improving CSI recovery. However, existing works focusing on CSI compression have shown little on the efficient encoding of CSI report. In this paper, we propose an efficient DL-based compressio…
Accurate channel state information (CSI) feedback plays a vital role in improving the performance gain of massive multiple-input multiple-output (m-MIMO) systems, where the dilemma is excessive CSI overhead versus limited feedback bandwith. By considering the noisy CSI due to imperfect channel estimation, we propose a novel deep neural network architecture, namely AnciNet, to conduct the CSI feedback with limited bandwidth. AnciNet extracts noise-free features from the noisy CSI samples to achieve effective CSI compression for the feedback. Experimental results verify that the proposed AnciNet…
Massive MIMO wireless FDD systems are often confronted by the challenge to efficiently obtain downlink channel state information (CSI). Previous works have demonstrated the potential in CSI encoding and recovery by take advantage of uplink/downlink reciprocity between their CSI magnitudes. However, such a framework separately encodes CSI phase and magnitude. To improve CSI encoding, we propose a learning-based framework based on limited CSI feedback and magnitude-aided information. Moving beyond previous works, our proposed framework with a modified loss function enables end-to-end learning to…
Massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems require downlink channel state information (CSI) at the base station (BS) to achieve spatial diversity and multiplexing gains. In a frequency division duplex (FDD) multiuser massive MIMO network, each user needs to compress and feedback its downlink CSI to the BS. The CSI overhead scales with the number of antennas, users and subcarriers, and becomes a major bottleneck for the overall spectral efficiency. In this paper, we propose a deep learning (DL)-based CSI compression scheme, called DeepCMC, composed of convolutional layers followed by…
In this paper, a novel robust beamforming scheme is proposed in three dimensional multi-input multi-output (3D-MIMO) systems. As one of the typical deployments of massive MIMO, a 3D-MIMO system owns sparse channels in angular domain. Thus, various of sparse channel estimation algorithms produce sparse channel estimation errors which can be utilized to narrow down the perturbation region of imperfect CSI. We investigate a $l_1$-norm bounded channel uncertainty model for the robust beamforming problems, which captures the sparse nature of channel errors. Compared with the conventional spherical …
In this paper, we consider a dual-hop Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) wireless multi-relay network, in which a source-destination pair both equipped with multiple antennas communicates through multiple half-duplex amplify-and-forward (AF) relay terminals which are also with multiple antennas. Since perfect channel state information (CSI) is difficult to obtain in practical multi-relay network, we consider imperfect CSI for all channels. We focus on maximizing the signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratio (SINR) at the destination. We propose a novel robust linear beamforming at the relays,…
Channel state information (CSI) feedback is critical for frequency division duplex (FDD) massive multi-input multi-output (MIMO) systems. Most conventional algorithms are based on compressive sensing (CS) and are highly dependent on the level of channel sparsity. To address the issue, a recent approach adopts deep learning (DL) to compress CSI into a codeword with low dimensionality, which has shown much better performance than the CS algorithms when feedback link is perfect. In practical scenario, however, there exists various interference and non-linear effect. In this article, we design a D…
This work considers the precoding problem in massive multiuser multiple-input multiple-output (MU-MIMO) systems equipped with low-resolution digital-to-analog converters (DACs). In previous literature on this topic, it is commonly assumed that the channel state information (CSI) is perfectly known. However, in practical applications the CSI is inevitably contaminated by noise. In this paper, we propose, for the first time, an eigen-inference (EI) precoding scheme to improve the error performance of the coarsely quantized massive MU-MIMO systems under imperfect CSI, which is mathematically mode…
In wireless communication, accurate channel state information (CSI) is of pivotal importance. In practice, due to processing and feedback delays, estimated CSI can be outdated, which can severely deteriorate the performance of the communication system. Besides, to feedback estimated CSI, a strong compression of the CSI, evaluated at the user equipment (UE), is performed to reduce the over-the-air (OTA) overhead. Such compression strongly reduces the precision of the estimated CSI, which ultimately impacts the performance of multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) precoding. Motivated by such iss…
CSI feedback is an important problem of Massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) technology because the feedback overhead is proportional to the number of sub-channels and the number of antennas, both of which scale with the size of the Massive MIMO system. Deep learning-based CSI feedback methods have been widely adopted recently owing to their superior performance. Despite the success, current approaches have not fully exploited the relationship between the characteristics of CSI data and the deep learning framework. In this paper, we propose a jigsaw puzzles aided training strategy (JP…
Accurate estimation of DL CSI is required to achieve high spectrum and energy efficiency in massive MIMO systems. Previous works have developed learning-based CSI feedback framework within FDD systems for efficient CSI encoding and recovery with demonstrated benefits. However, downlink pilots for CSI estimation by receiving terminals may occupy excessively large number of resource elements for massive number of antennas and compromise spectrum efficiency. To overcome this problem, we propose a new learning-based feedback architecture for efficient encoding of partial CSI feedback of interleave…
In frequency-division duplexing (FDD) massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO), deep learning (DL)-based superimposed channel state information (CSI) feedback has presented promising performance. However, it is still facing many challenges, such as the high complexity of parameter tuning, large number of training parameters, and long training time, etc. To overcome these challenges, an extreme learning machine (ELM)-based superimposed CSI feedback is proposed in this paper, in which the downlink CSI is spread and then superimposed on uplink user data sequence (UL-US) to feed back to base …
This paper studies the performance of a user positioning system using Channel State Information (CSI) of a Massive MIMO (MaMIMO) system. To infer the position of the user from the CSI, a Convolutional Neural Network is designed and evaluated through a novel dataset. This dataset contains indoor MaMIMO CSI measurements using three different antenna topologies, covering a 2.5 m by 2.5 m indoor area. We show that we can train a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) model to estimate the position of a user inside this area with a mean error of less than half a wavelength. Moreover, once the model is …
To fully exploit the advantages of massive multiple-input multiple-output (m-MIMO), accurate channel state information (CSI) is required at the transmitter. However, excessive CSI feedback for large antenna arrays is inefficient and thus undesirable in practical applications. By exploiting the inherent correlation characteristics of complex-valued channel responses in the angular-delay domain, we propose a novel neural network (NN) architecture, namely ENet, for CSI compression and feedback in m-MIMO. Even if the ENet processes the real and imaginary parts of the CSI values separately, its spe…
Transmitter channel state information (CSIT) is indispensable for the spectral efficiency gains offered by massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems. In a frequency-division-duplexing (FDD) massive MIMO system, CSIT is typically acquired through downlink channel estimation and user feedback, but as the number of antennas increases, the overhead for CSI training and feedback per user grows, leading to a decrease in spectral efficiency. In this paper, we show that, using uplink pilots in FDD, the downlink sum spectral efficiency gain with perfect downlink CSIT is achievable when the …
This paper investigates the performance of reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-aided massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems with direct links, and the phase shifts of the RIS are designed based on the statistical channel state information (CSI). We first derive the closed-form expression of the uplink ergodic data rate. Then, based on the derived expression, we use the genetic algorithm (GA) to solve the sum data rate maximization problem. With low-complexity maximal-ratio combination (MRC) and low-overhead statistical CSI-based scheme, we validate that the RIS can still br…
Channel state information (CSI) plays a critical role in achieving the potential benefits of massive multiple input multiple output (MIMO) systems. In frequency division duplex (FDD) massive MIMO systems, the base station (BS) relies on sustained and accurate CSI feedback from the users. However, due to the large number of antennas and users being served in massive MIMO systems, feedback overhead can become a bottleneck. In this paper, we propose a model-driven deep learning method for CSI feedback, called learnable optimization and regularization algorithm (LORA). Instead of using l1-norm as …
This paper considers an uplink reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-aided massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) system with statistical channel state information (CSI). The RIS is deployed to help conventional massive MIMO networks serve the users in the dead zone. We consider the Rician channel model and exploit the long-time statistical CSI to design the phase shifts of the RIS, while the maximum ratio combination (MRC) technique is applied for the active beamforming at the base station (BS) relying on the instantaneous CSI. Firstly, we reveal the power scaling laws and derive th…
In this paper, we investigate the secure rate-splitting for the two-user multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) broadcast channel with imperfect channel state information at the transmitter (CSIT) and a multiple-antenna jammer, where each receiver has an equal number of antennas and the jammer has perfect channel state information (CSI). Specifically, we design a secure rate-splitting multiple-access strategy, where the security of split private and common messages is ensured by precoder design with joint nulling and aligning the leakage information, regarding different antenna configurations. …
Obtaining accurate channel state information (CSI) is crucial and challenging for multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) wireless communication systems. Conventional channel estimation method cannot guarantee the accuracy of mobile CSI while requires high signaling overhead. Through exploring the intrinsic correlation among a set of historical CSI instances randomly obtained in a certain communication environment, channel prediction can significantly increase CSI accuracy and save signaling overhead. In this paper, we propose a novel channel prediction method based on ordinary differential equa…
Optimal BeamFormers (BFs) that maximize the Weighted Sum Rate (WSR) for a Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) interference broadcast channel (IBC) remains an important research area. Under practical scenarios, the problem is compounded by the fact that only partial channel state information at the transmitter (CSIT) is available. Hence, a typical choice of the optimization metric is the Expected Weighted Sum Rate (EWSR). However, the presence of the expectation operator makes the optimization a daunting task. On the other hand, for the particular, but significant, special case of massive MIM…
Accurate downlink channel state information (CSI) is vital to achieving high spectrum efficiency in massive MIMO systems. Existing works on the deep learning (DL) model for CSI feedback have shown efficient compression and recovery in frequency division duplex (FDD) systems. However, practical DL networks require sizeable wireless CSI datasets during training to achieve high model accuracy. To address this labor-intensive problem, this work develops an efficient training enhancement solution of DL-based feedback architecture based on a modest dataset by exploiting the complex CSI features, and…
A distributed massive MIMO channel sounder for acquiring large CSI datasets, dubbed DICHASUS, is presented. The measured data has potential applications in the study of various machine learning algorithms for user localization, JCAS, channel charting, enabling massive MIMO in FDD operation, and many others. The proposed channel sounder architecture is distinct from similar previous designs in that each individual single-antenna receiver is completely autonomous, enabling arbitrary, spatially distributed antenna deployments, and offering virtually unlimited scalability in the number of antennas…
Channel State Information (CSI) Feedback plays a crucial role in achieving higher gains through beamforming. However, for a massive MIMO system, this feedback overhead is huge and grows linearly with the number of antennas. To reduce the feedback overhead several compressive sensing (CS) techniques were implemented in recent years but these techniques are often iterative and are computationally complex to realize in power-constrained user equipment (UE). Hence, a data-based deep learning approach took over in these recent years introducing a variety of neural networks for CSI compression. Spec…
When operating massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems with uplink (UL) and downlink (DL) channels at different frequencies (frequency division duplex (FDD) operation), acquisition of channel state information (CSI) for downlink precoding is a major challenge. Since, barring transceiver impairments, both UL and DL CSI are determined by the physical environment surrounding transmitter and receiver, it stands to reason that, for a static environment, a mapping from UL CSI to DL CSI may exist. First, we propose to use various neural network (NN)-based approaches that learn this mapp…
Cell densification is a key driver to increase area spectral efficiencies in multi-antenna cellular systems. As increasing the densities of base stations (BSs) and users that share the same spectrum, however, both inter-user-interference (IUI) and inter-cell interference (ICI) problems give rise to a significant loss in spectral efficiencies in such systems. To resolve this problem under the constraint of local channel state information per BS, in this paper, we present a novel noncooperative multi-user multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) precoding technique, called signal-to-interference-pu…
As a key technology for future wireless networks, massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) can significantly improve the energy efficiency (EE) and spectral efficiency (SE), and the performance is highly dependant on the degree of the available channel state information (CSI). While most existing works on massive MIMO focused on the case where the instantaneous CSI at the transmitter (CSIT) is available, it is usually not an easy task to obtain precise instantaneous CSIT. In this paper, we investigate EE-SE tradeoff in single-cell massive MIMO downlink transmission with statistical CSIT. …
Coded caching provides significant gains over conventional uncoded caching by creating multicasting opportunities among distinct requests. Massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems require downlink channel state information (CSI) at the base station (BS) to better utilize the available spatial diversity and multiplexing gains. However, in a frequency division duplex (FDD) massive MIMO system, the huge CSI feedback overhead becomes restrictive and degrades the overall spectral efficiency. In this paper, we propose a deep learning based channel state matrix compression scheme, called…
Linear hybrid beamformer designs are conceived for the decentralized estimation of a vector parameter in a millimeter wave (mmWave) multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) Internet of Things network (IoTNe). The proposed designs incorporate both total IoTNe and individual IoTNo power constraints, while also eliminating the need for a baseband receiver combiner at the fusion center (FC). To circumvent the non-convexity of the hybrid beamformer design problem, the proposed approach initially determines the minimum mean square error (MMSE) digital transmit precoder (TPC) weights followed by a simul…
