2023/08/28 by Sueda Taner, Victoria Palhares, Taner, Sueda +3 · 2 citations
Engineering · #Antenna Design and Analysis #FOS: Computer and information sciences #FOS: Electrical engineering #Indoor and Outdoor Localization Technologies #Information Theory (cs.IT) #Millimeter-Wave Propagation and Modeling #Signal Processing (eess.SP) #electronic engineering #information engineering
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2308.14498
openalex publication_date 2023/08/28 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
Channel charting is an emerging self-supervised method that maps channel state information (CSI) to a low-dimensional latent space, which represents pseudo-positions of user equipments (UEs). While this latent space preserves local geometry, i.e., nearby UEs are nearby in latent space, the pseudo-positions are in arbitrary coordinates and global geometry is not preserved. In order to enable channel charting in real-world coordinates, we propose a novel bilateration loss for multipoint wireless systems in which only the access point (AP) locations are known--no geometrical models or ground-truth UE position information is required. The idea behind this bilateration loss is to compare the received power at pairs of APs in order to determine whether a UE should be placed closer to one AP or the other in latent space. We demonstrate the efficacy of our method using channel vectors from a commercial ray-tracer.