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Centralized Learning of the Distributed Downlink Channel Estimators in FDD Systems using Uplink Data

2021/05/22 by Benedikt Fesl, Nurettin Turan, Fesl, B. +7
Engineering · #Advanced MIMO Systems Optimization #FOS: Computer and information sciences #FOS: Electrical engineering #Full-Duplex Wireless Communications #Information Theory (cs.IT) #Millimeter-Wave Propagation and Modeling #Signal Processing (eess.SP) #electronic engineering #information engineering

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2105.10746

openalex publication_date 2021/05/22 · openalex created_date 2021/06/07 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28

Abstract

In this work, we propose a convolutional neural network (CNN) based low-complexity approach for downlink (DL) channel estimation (CE) in frequency division duplex (FDD) systems. In contrast to existing work, we use training data which solely stems from the uplink (UL) domain. This allows to learn the CNN centralized at the base station (BS). After training, the network parameters are offloaded to mobile terminals (MTs) within the coverage area of the BS. The MTs can then obtain channel state information (CSI) of the MIMO channels with the low-complexity CNN estimator. This circumvents the necessity of an infeasible amount of feedback, i.e., acquisition of training data at the user, and the offline training phase at each MT. Numerical results show that the CNN which is trained solely based on UL data performs equally well as the network trained based on DL data. Furthermore, the approach is able to outperform state-of-the-art CE algorithms.

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