用物理先验增强神经网络,提升受限导频下的信道估计精度
RSS map-assisted MIMO channel estimation in the upper mid-band under pilot constraints
- 融合环境传播先验与深度网络,构建物理可解释的信道估计算法
- 在有限导频下实现超5 dB的NMSE性能提升,跨频段跨环境鲁棒性强
- 支持多步时序预测,适合移动场景中的预调度与波束成形
精确的无线信道估计对下一代无线系统至关重要,可实现精准预编码、降低小区间干扰并提升高分辨率感知能力。传统基于模型的方法在复杂环境中导频受限时性能下降,而纯数据驱动方法缺乏物理可解释性、需大量数据且通常依赖特定站点。本文提出一种新型物理信息神经网络(PINN)框架,将模型基信道估计与深度网络协同结合,利用环境传播特性先验,在导频受限场景下实现卓越性能。所提方法采用改进的带变换器模块和交叉注意力机制的U-Net结构,融合初始信道估计与接收信号强度(RSS)图以获得精炼估计。基于真实城市环境射线追踪数据的全面评估显示,相比现有最优方法,NMSE性能提升超过5 dB,尤其在导频稀缺场景表现优异,并在不同频率和环境中仅需极少微调即可保持鲁棒性。进一步扩展解码器以支持多步时间预测,仅需一次估计即可准确预测多个未来信道快照,适用于移动场景中的主动波束成形与调度。该框架保持了实用的计算复杂度,适用于上中频段的大规模MIMO系统。相较于黑箱神经方法,其物理信息设计提供了更高可解释性。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Accurate wireless channel estimation is critical for next-generation wireless systems, enabling precise precoding for effective user separation, reduced interference across cells, and high-resolution sensing, among other benefits. Traditional model-based channel estimation methods suffer, however, from performance degradation in complex environments with a limited number of pilots, while purely data-driven approaches lack physical interpretability, require extensive data collection, and are usually site-specific. This paper presents a novel physics-informed neural network (PINN) framework that synergistically combines model-based channel estimation with a deep network to exploit prior information about environmental propagation characteristics and achieve superior performance under pilot-constrained scenarios. The proposed approach employs an enhanced U-Net architecture with transformer modules and cross-attention mechanisms to fuse initial channel estimates with RSS maps to provide refined channel estimates. Comprehensive evaluation using realistic ray-tracing data from urban environments demonstrates significant performance improvements, achieving over 5 dB gain in NMSE compared to state-of-the-art methods, with particularly strong performance in pilot-limited scenarios and robustness across different frequencies and environments with only minimal fine-tuning. We further extend the decoder for multi-step temporal prediction, enabling accurate forecasting of several future channel snapshots from a single estimate, useful for proactive beamforming and scheduling in mobile scenarios. The proposed framework maintains practical computational complexity, making it viable for massive MIMO systems in upper-mid band frequencies. Unlike black-box neural approaches, the physics-informed design provides a more interpretable channel estimation method.
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