arXiv:2504.05187cs.NIcs.AI2025-04被引 21

用雷达数据实现高精度毫米波波束预测,计算成本降为十分之一。

Resource-Efficient Beam Prediction in mmWave Communications with Multimodal Realistic Simulation Framework

  • 通过跨模态关系知识蒸馏,将多传感器模型知识迁移到仅用雷达的轻量模型。
  • 在仅10%参数量下达到教师模型94.62%的性能,显著降低计算开销。
  • 基于CARLA与MATLAB构建真实场景模拟框架,支持多模态学习验证。

毫米波通信中的波束成形技术依赖于精确的方向性优化,但传统信道估计方法(如导频信号或波束扫描)难以适应快速变化的环境。为此,融合多模态感知数据(如激光雷达、雷达、GPS、RGB图像)的波束预测受到关注,但受限于高算力需求、高成本和数据集匮乏。本文提出一种资源高效的波束预测学习框架,采用自研的跨模态关系知识蒸馏(CRKD)算法,将多模态网络的知识迁移至仅依赖雷达的轻量学生模型,实现高精度预测。为支持真实场景下的多模态学习,构建了集成自动驾驶模拟器CARLA与MATLAB毫米波信道建模的新型多模态仿真框架。结果表明,该方法通过蒸馏不同特征空间的关系信息,在不依赖昂贵传感器数据的前提下,使雷达单模模型达到教师模型94.62%的性能,且仅需其10%的参数量,大幅降低计算复杂度与对多模态数据的依赖。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Beamforming is a key technology in millimeter-wave (mmWave) communications that improves signal transmission by optimizing directionality and intensity. However, conventional channel estimation methods, such as pilot signals or beam sweeping, often fail to adapt to rapidly changing communication environments. To address this limitation, multimodal sensing-aided beam prediction has gained significant attention, using various sensing data from devices such as LiDAR, radar, GPS, and RGB images to predict user locations or network conditions. Despite its promising potential, the adoption of multimodal sensing-aided beam prediction is hindered by high computational complexity, high costs, and limited datasets. Thus, in this paper, a novel resource-efficient learning framework is introduced for beam prediction, which leverages a custom-designed cross-modal relational knowledge distillation (CRKD) algorithm specifically tailored for beam prediction tasks, to transfer knowledge from a multimodal network to a radar-only student model, achieving high accuracy with reduced computational cost. To enable multimodal learning with realistic data, a novel multimodal simulation framework is developed while integrating sensor data generated from the autonomous driving simulator CARLA with MATLAB-based mmWave channel modeling, and reflecting real-world conditions. The proposed CRKD achieves its objective by distilling relational information across different feature spaces, which enhances beam prediction performance without relying on expensive sensor data. Simulation results demonstrate that CRKD efficiently distills multimodal knowledge, allowing a radar-only model to achieve $94.62%$ of the teacher performance. In particular, this is achieved with just $10%$ of the teacher network's parameters, thereby significantly reducing computational complexity and dependence on multimodal sensor data.

毫米波通信波束预测知识蒸馏仿真框架

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