Wi-GATr learns to simulate wireless signals with high accuracy and speed.
problem Inaccurate wireless signal propagation models limit modern communication system design.
method Wi-GATr uses a Geometric Algebra Transformer to learn from scene primitives.
result Wi-GATr achieves more accurate predictions than existing methods.
A novel method for efficient CDRL over wireless networks.
problem Challenges in collaborative deep reinforcement learning over wireless networks.
method Semantic-aware heterogeneous federated deep reinforcement learning (HFDRL) algorithm.
result Superior performance compared to state-of-the-art baselines.
In industrial environments, an increasing amount of wireless devices are used, which utilize license-free bands. As a consequence of these mutual interferences of wireless systems might decrease the state of coexistence. Therefore, a central coexistence management system is needed, which allocates conflict-free resourc…
In this paper, the problem of training federated learning (FL) algorithms over a realistic wireless network is studied. In particular, in the considered model, wireless users execute an FL algorithm while training their local FL models using their own data and transmitting the trained local FL models to a base station …
New approach uses contrastive learning for better wireless power control.
problem Improving power control in wireless networks.
method A multi-layer perceptron with a contrastive learning backbone and head.
result Significant gains in sum-throughput and sample efficiency over supervised learning.
A DRL-based strategy improves vehicle tracking accuracy while saving energy.
problem Enhancing vehicle tracking accuracy in WSNs without increasing energy consumption.
method Decentralized strategy with dynamic reinforcement learning to adjust sensing areas.
result Simulation results demonstrate superior performance of DRL-aided design.
Deep neural networks (DNNs) have been employed for designing wireless systems in many aspects, say transceiver design, resource optimization, and information prediction. Existing works either use the fully-connected DNN or the DNNs with particular architectures developed in other domains. While generating labels for su…
New techniques improve channel prediction in noisy wireless systems.
problem Predicting channels in wireless communication systems from noisy observations.
method Adapted sequence-to-sequence models and transformers with reverse positional encoding and reversed encoder outputs.
result Improved robustness and relationship capture in channel prediction models.
Deep actor-critic learning optimizes power control in mobile networks.
problem Optimizing power control in large-scale wireless mobile networks.
method Multi-agent deep reinforcement learning with deep deterministic policy gradient.
result The algorithm maximizes a global utility function in a distributed manner.
Deep RL improves power control and scheduling for wireless multicast systems.
problem Scalable power control and scheduling for wireless multicast networks.
method Deep reinforcement learning with function approximation using a deep neural network.
result Deep RL can learn optimal power control policies for large systems.
This paper considers the design of optimal resource allocation policies in wireless communication systems which are generically modeled as a functional optimization problem with stochastic constraints. These optimization problems have the structure of a learning problem in which the statistical loss appears as a constr…
A machine-learning method speeds up RIS design by predicting reflection coefficients.
problem Extensive full-wave EM simulations are time-consuming for RIS design.
method Combining MLP and dual-port network to develop a fast model.
result The proposed method significantly reduces the time for RIS design.
Deep neural networks (DNNs) have been employed for designing wireless networks in many aspects, such as transceiver optimization, resource allocation, and information prediction. Existing works either use fully-connected DNN or the DNNs with specific structures that are designed in other domains. In this paper, we show…
This letter proposes a sparse diffusion steepest-descent algorithm for one bit compressed sensing in wireless sensor networks. The approach exploits the diffusion strategy from distributed learning in the one bit compressed sensing framework. To estimate a common sparse vector cooperatively from only the sign of measur…
Generative diffusion models improve channel sampling from limited data.
problem Challenges in channel modelling and data collection for wireless systems.
method Diffusion model with U-Net architecture for frequency domain synthesis.
result Stable training and diverse high-fidelity samples generated from true channel distribution.
This work improves communication efficiency in federated learning over wireless networks by optimizing energy consumption.
problem Optimizing energy consumption in federated learning over wireless networks.
method Adopting SignSGD for gradient sign exchange, considering channel capacity with outage, and proposing a stochastic sign-based algorithm for uneven data distribution.
result Proposed methods achieve a balance between learning performance and energy consumption.
Wireless communication systems operate in complex time-varying environments. Therefore, selecting the optimal configuration parameters in these systems is a challenging problem. For wireless links, \emph{rate selection} is used to select the optimal data transmission rate that maximizes the link throughput subject to a…
Paper proposes a graph model for optimal AP deployment in indoor optical wireless networks.
problem Challenges in deploying optical wireless networks due to LoS requirement and limited range.
method Graph modeling approach to identify minimum number of APs and their optimal locations.
result Optimal deployment of APs ensures connectivity and minimizes interference in indoor environments.
The paper discusses scalable learning for wireless data-driven systems.
problem Expanding data volume and model complexity limit centralized learning solutions.
method Discusses scalable architecture and local learning strategies.
result Promising research directions in scalable data-driven wireless communications.
The growing role that artificial intelligence and specifically machine learning is playing in shaping the future of wireless communications has opened up many new and intriguing research directions. This paper motivates the research in the novel direction of \textit{vision-aided wireless communications}, which aims at …
Generative model learns wireless channel distributions efficiently.
problem Learning precise wireless channel distributions for optimal communication.
method Physics-informed sparse Bayesian generative modeling (SBGM) with compressed data.
result Model learns channel parameters from compressed AP observations, is physically interpretable, and generalizes across different systems.
Edge devices learn a global model collaboratively over wireless channels.
problem Learning a global model from edge devices with imperfect channel state information.
method Proposed analog aggregation scheme, receive beamforming at PS, and convergence analysis.
result Performance improvement with more PS antennas, even with imperfect CSI.
Study compares different levels of supervision for training graph embeddings in wireless networks.
problem Improving power control in wireless interference networks.
method Training graph neural networks (GNNs) with different levels of supervision (supervised, unsupervised, self-supervised).
result Different levels of supervision impact system-level throughput, convergence, and generalization.
CHOOSE enhances shallow Transformers for wireless symbol detection.
problem Improving wireless symbol detection with shallow Transformers.
method Introducing autoregressive latent reasoning steps within hidden space.
result Lightweight Transformers achieve comparable performance to deep models.
Few-shot domain adaptation improves autoencoder performance in changing wireless channels.
problem Frequent retraining of autoencoder for low decoding error rate in changing channel conditions is impractical.
method Uses Gaussian mixture density network and class and component-conditional affine transformations for few-shot adaptation.
result Effective adaptation using very small number of target domain samples, improving performance in real mmWave setups.
Adversarial attacks are ineffective when the surrogate models are trained with different channel effects.
problem Adversarial attacks against wireless signal classifiers are ineffective when the adversary's surrogate model differs from the transmitter's classifier.
method Investigated different topologies to analyze how channel effects influence the performance of adversarial attacks.
result Surrogate models trained with different channel-induced inputs severely limit the attack performance.
Machine learning speeds up RIS design for efficient RF components.
problem Designing reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS) for efficient RF components is time-consuming and resource-intensive.
method Machine/deep learning techniques are used to reduce the computational cost and time of RIS inverse design.
result Machine learning techniques significantly reduce the time and computational cost of RIS design.
State-augmented algorithm optimizes wireless network resource management.
problem Optimizing resource allocation in multi-user wireless networks.
method Proposes a state-augmented algorithm using dual variables.
result Feasible and near-optimal resource decisions achieved.
Paper proposes methods to localize sources in WSNs without knowing sensor parameters.
problem Source localization in WSNs without sensor parameter knowledge.
method Hitting set approach and feature selection method.
result Effective source localization methods validated through simulations.
Meta-learning improves drone trajectory design for dynamic wireless networks.
problem Designing optimal trajectories for energy-constrained drones in dynamic network environments.
method Proposes a meta-learning algorithm to adaptively tune a reinforcement learning solution for trajectory design.
result Meta-tuned RL yields faster convergence and improved communication performance compared to baseline algorithms.
In the last decade, there has been a great technological advance in the infrastructure of mobile technologies. The increase in the use of wireless local area networks and the use of satellite services are also noticed. The high utilization rate of mobile devices for various purposes makes clear the need to track wirele…
Resource allocation improved using machine learning from terminal positions.
problem Optimizing resource allocation in next-gen wireless systems with fast-changing channel conditions.
method Supervised machine learning using position information of mobile terminals.
result Coordinates-based resource allocation performs similarly to traditional CSI-based methods.
Wireless systems perform rate adaptation to transmit at highest possible instantaneous rates. Rate adaptation has been increasingly granular over generations of wireless systems. The base-station uses SINR and packet decode feedback called acknowledgement/no acknowledgement (ACK/NACK) to perform rate adaptation. SINR i…
Paper proposes DRL for unsupervised IoT localization.
problem Challenges in unsupervised localization of IoT devices.
method Modeling localization as MDP, using DRL with reward-setting and RSS measurements.
result Demonstrated effectiveness of DRL in wireless localization.
The paper develops a learning algorithm for distributed training and inference in wireless networks.
problem Challenges of leveraging machine learning in highly distributed wireless networks.
method Developed a learning algorithm and architecture for distributed training and inference.
result Inference propagates and fuses across a network, with benefits over state-of-the-art techniques.
There is a growing interest in the wireless communications community to complement the traditional model-based design approaches with data-driven machine learning (ML)-based solutions. While conventional ML approaches rely on the assumption of having the data and processing heads in a central entity, this is not always…
Paper presents a WiFi-based indoor sensor localization technique.
problem Indoor localization in wireless sensor networks.
method Zoning-based localization using statistical learning.
result Efficient sensor zone determination in indoor environments.
A "wireless fingerprint" which exploits hardware imperfections unique to each device is a potentially powerful tool for wireless security. Such a fingerprint should be able to distinguish between devices sending the same message, and should be robust against standard spoofing techniques. Since the information in wirele…
Develops deep learning for optimizing 5G radio resource allocation.
problem Optimizing 5G base station radio resources for diverse QoS requirements.
method Cascaded neural network structure with deep transfer learning for non-stationary conditions.
result Cascaded neural networks outperform fully connected neural networks in QoS guarantee.
Proposes efficient calibration for indoor localization models.
problem Calibration data scarcity in wireless indoor localization.
method Uses synthetic labels and prediction sets to fine-tune a predictor and estimate bias.
result Yields rigorous coverage guarantees for prediction sets.
Neural networks have been proposed recently for positioning and channel charting of user equipments (UEs) in wireless systems. Both of these approaches process channel state information (CSI) that is acquired at a multi-antenna base-station in order to learn a function that maps CSI to location information. CSI-based p…
Improved DL models robust against adversarial attacks for wireless signal classification.
problem Adversarial attacks on deep learning-based wireless signal classifiers.
method Knowledge distillation and network pruning followed by adversarial training.
result Proposed models achieve better robustness and higher accuracy than standard models.
This chapter deals with decentralized learning algorithms for in-network processing of graph-valued data. A generic learning problem is formulated and recast into a separable form, which is iteratively minimized using the alternating-direction method of multipliers (ADMM) so as to gain the desired degree of paralleliza…
Scheduling and power allocation improve federated learning efficiency in NOMA networks.
problem Efficiently scheduling and allocating power for federated learning in bandwidth-limited wireless networks.
method Proposed a scheduling policy and power allocation scheme using NOMA to maximize data rate and convergence speed.
result Simulation results show improved federated learning accuracy in NOMA networks.
A-FADMM improves FL scalability and privacy via wireless channel perturbations and interference.
problem Challenges in model training due to wireless channel randomness and interference.
method Formulated a novel constrained optimization problem and proposed A-FADMM framework.
result Proves convergence and privacy guarantees for A-FADMM under time-varying channels.
Future wireless networks have a substantial potential in terms of supporting a broad range of complex compelling applications both in military and civilian fields, where the users are able to enjoy high-rate, low-latency, low-cost and reliable information services. Achieving this ambitious goal requires new radio techn…
Inter-Cell Interference Coordination (ICIC) is a promising way to improve energy efficiency in wireless networks, especially where small base stations are densely deployed. However, traditional optimization based ICIC schemes suffer from severe performance degradation with complex interference pattern. To address this …
In this paper, we present an infinite hierarchical non-parametric Bayesian model to extract the hidden factors over observed data, where the number of hidden factors for each layer is unknown and can be potentially infinite. Moreover, the number of layers can also be infinite. We construct the model structure that allo…