Similarity-based prediction for channel mapping and user positioning

Luc Le Magoarou (1, 2, 3)

1 Artificial Intelligence
2 IRT b-com - Institut de Recherche Technologique b-com
3 Hypermedia - Domaine Hypermedia (IRT b<>com)

In a wireless network, gathering information at the base station about mobile users based only on uplink channel measurements is an interesting challenge. Indeed, accessing the users locations and predicting their downlink channels would be particularly useful in order to optimize the network efficiency. In this paper, we propose a supervised machine learning approach addressing these tasks in an unified way. It relies on a labeled database that can be acquired in a simple way by the base station while operating. The proposed regression method can be seen as a computationally efficient two layers neural network. It is illustrated on realistic channel data, both for the positioning and channel mapping tasks, achieving better results than previously proposed approaches, at a lower cost.

Mots clés: channel mapping; user positioning; neural net- works; regression

Domaines: Traitement du signal et de l'image [eess.SP]; Apprentissage [cs.LG]; Réseaux et télécommunications [cs.NI]

Luc Le Magoarou. Similarity-based prediction for channel mapping and user positioning. 2020. ⟨hal-02974852v1⟩