Telecommunications
Deep Learning based Coverage and Rate Manifold Estimation in Cellular Networks
Mondal, Washim Uddin, Mankar, Praful D., Das, Goutam, Aggarwal, Vaneet, Ukkusuri, Satish V.
This article proposes Convolutional Neural Network-based Auto Encoder (CNN-AE) to predict location-dependent rate and coverage probability of a network from its topology. We train the CNN utilising BS location data of India, Brazil, Germany, and the USA and compare its performance with stochastic geometry (SG) based analytical models. In comparison to the best-fitted SG-based model, CNN-AE improves the coverage and rate prediction errors by a margin of as large as $40\%$ and $25\%$ respectively. As an application, we propose a low complexity, provably convergent algorithm that, using trained CNN-AE, can compute locations of new BSs that need to be deployed in a network in order to satisfy pre-defined spatially heterogeneous performance goals.
Technical Perspective: Physical Layer Resilience through Deep Learning in Software Radios
Resilience is the new holy grail in wireless communication systems. Complex radio environments and malicious attacks using intelligent jamming contribute to unreliable communication systems. Early approaches to deal with such problems were based on frequency hopping, scrambling, chirping, and cognitive radio-based concepts, among others. Physical-layer security was increased using known codes and pseudorandom number sequences. However, these approaches are not up to modern standards; they do not improve resilience and are rather easy to attack by means of intelligent jamming.
Transferable Cross-Tokamak Disruption Prediction with Deep Hybrid Neural Network Feature Extractor
Zheng, Wei, Xue, Fengming, Zhang, Ming, Chen, Zhongyong, Shen, Chengshuo, Ai, Xinkun, Wang, Nengchao, Chen, Dalong, Guo, Bihao, Ding, Yonghua, Chen, Zhipeng, Yang, Zhoujun, Shen, Biao, Xiao, Bingjia, Pan, Yuan
Predicting disruptions across different tokamaks is a great obstacle to overcome. Future tokamaks can hardly tolerate disruptions at high performance discharge. Few disruption discharges at high performance can hardly compose an abundant training set, which makes it difficult for current data-driven methods to obtain an acceptable result. A machine learning method capable of transferring a disruption prediction model trained on one tokamak to another is required to solve the problem. The key is a disruption prediction model containing a feature extractor that is able to extract common disruption precursor traces in tokamak diagnostic data, and a transferable disruption classifier. Based on the concerns above, the paper first presents a deep fusion feature extractor designed specifically for extracting disruption precursor features from common diagnostics on tokamaks according to currently known precursors of disruption, providing a promising foundation for transferable models. The fusion feature extractor is proved by comparing with manual feature extraction on J-TEXT. Based on the feature extractor trained on J-TEXT, the disruption prediction model was transferred to EAST data with mere 20 discharges from EAST experiment. The performance is comparable with a model trained with 1896 discharges from EAST. From the comparison among other model training scenarios, transfer learning showed its potential in predicting disruptions across different tokamaks.
Performance Optimization for Semantic Communications: An Attention-based Reinforcement Learning Approach
Wang, Yining, Chen, Mingzhe, Luo, Tao, Saad, Walid, Niyato, Dusit, Poor, H. Vincent, Cui, Shuguang
In this paper, a semantic communication framework is proposed for textual data transmission. In the studied model, a base station (BS) extracts the semantic information from textual data, and transmits it to each user. The semantic information is modeled by a knowledge graph (KG) that consists of a set of semantic triples. After receiving the semantic information, each user recovers the original text using a graph-to-text generation model. To measure the performance of the considered semantic communication framework, a metric of semantic similarity (MSS) that jointly captures the semantic accuracy and completeness of the recovered text is proposed. Due to wireless resource limitations, the BS may not be able to transmit the entire semantic information to each user and satisfy the transmission delay constraint. Hence, the BS must select an appropriate resource block for each user as well as determine and transmit part of the semantic information to the users. As such, we formulate an optimization problem whose goal is to maximize the total MSS by jointly optimizing the resource allocation policy and determining the partial semantic information to be transmitted. To solve this problem, a proximal-policy-optimization-based reinforcement learning (RL) algorithm integrated with an attention network is proposed. The proposed algorithm can evaluate the importance of each triple in the semantic information using an attention network and then, build a relationship between the importance distribution of the triples in the semantic information and the total MSS. Compared to traditional RL algorithms, the proposed algorithm can dynamically adjust its learning rate thus ensuring convergence to a locally optimal solution.
AoI-based Temporal Attention Graph Neural Network for Popularity Prediction and Content Caching
Zhu, Jianhang, Li, Rongpeng, Ding, Guoru, Wang, Chan, Wu, Jianjun, Zhao, Zhifeng, Zhang, Honggang
Along with the fast development of network technology and the rapid growth of network equipment, the data throughput is sharply increasing. To handle the problem of backhaul bottleneck in cellular network and satisfy people's requirements about latency, the network architecture like information-centric network (ICN) intends to proactively keep limited popular content at the edge of network based on predicted results. Meanwhile, the interactions between the content (e.g., deep neural network models, Wikipedia-alike knowledge base) and users could be regarded as a dynamic bipartite graph. In this paper, to maximize the cache hit rate, we leverage an effective dynamic graph neural network (DGNN) to jointly learn the structural and temporal patterns embedded in the bipartite graph. Furthermore, in order to have deeper insights into the dynamics within the evolving graph, we propose an age of information (AoI) based attention mechanism to extract valuable historical information while avoiding the problem of message staleness. Combining this aforementioned prediction model, we also develop a cache selection algorithm to make caching decisions in accordance with the prediction results. Extensive results demonstrate that our model can obtain a higher prediction accuracy than other state-of-the-art schemes in two real-world datasets. The results of hit rate further verify the superiority of the caching policy based on our proposed model over other traditional ways.
AI robots that coexist with humans, incredible scientific development!!
The era of artificial intelligence chatbots has opened wide in Korea. On the 10th, the domestic media introduced an artificial intelligence robot that helps the elderly. The human care robot developed by the Intelligent Robotics Research Division of the Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI) is the main character. The Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI) said, "We have developed a robot artificial intelligence technology that understands the elderly, responds emotionally, and provides personalized services tailored to the situation." According to ETRI, the development of human care service robots requires data to recognize people from the robot's point of view and artificial intelligence technology necessary for deep learning.
Performance Analysis of Universal Robot Control System Using Networked Predictive Control
Networked control systems are feedback control systems with system components distributed at different locations connected through a communication network. Since the communication network is carried out through the internet and there are bandwidth and packet size limitations, network constraints appear. Some of these constraints are time delay and packet loss. These network limitations can degrade the performance and even destabilize the system. To overcome the adverse effect of these communication constraints, various approaches have been developed, among which a representative one is networked predictive control. This approach proposes a controller, which compensates for the network time delay and packet loss actively. This paper aims at implementing a networked predictive control system for controlling a robot arm through a computer network. The network delay is accounted for by a predictor, while the potential of packet loss is mitigated using redundant control packets. The results will show the stability of the system despite a high delay and a considerable packet loss. Additionally, improvements to previous networked predictive control systems will be suggested and an increase in performance can be shown. Lastly, the effects of different system and environment parameters on the control loop will be investigated.
A Review of the Convergence of 5G/6G Architecture and Deep Learning
Odeyomi, Olusola T., Akintade, Olubiyi O., Olowu, Temitayo O., Zaruba, Gergely
The convergence of 5G architecture and deep learning has gained a lot of research interests in both the fields of wireless communication and artificial intelligence. This is because deep learning technologies have been identified to be the potential driver of the 5G technologies, that make up the 5G architecture. Hence, there have been extensive surveys on the convergence of 5G architecture and deep learning. However, most of the existing survey papers mainly focused on how deep learning can converge with a specific 5G technology, thus, not covering the full spectrum of the 5G architecture. Although there is a recent survey paper that appears to be robust, a review of that paper shows that it is not well structured to specifically cover the convergence of deep learning and the 5G technologies. Hence, this paper provides a robust overview of the convergence of the key 5G technologies and deep learning. The challenges faced by such convergence are discussed. In addition, a brief overview of the future 6G architecture, and how it can converge with deep learning is also discussed.
WiFi Based Distance Estimation Using Supervised Machine Learning
Kostas, Kahraman, Kostas, Rabia Yasa, Zampella, Francisco, Alsehly, Firas
In recent years WiFi became the primary source of information to locate a person or device indoor. Collecting RSSI values as reference measurements with known positions, known as WiFi fingerprinting, is commonly used in various positioning methods and algorithms that appear in literature. However, measuring the spatial distance between given set of WiFi fingerprints is heavily affected by the selection of the signal distance function used to model signal space as geospatial distance. In this study, the authors proposed utilization of machine learning to improve the estimation of geospatial distance between fingerprints. This research examined data collected from 13 different open datasets to provide a broad representation aiming for general model that can be used in any indoor environment. The proposed novel approach extracted data features by examining a set of commonly used signal distance metrics via feature selection process that includes feature analysis and genetic algorithm. To demonstrate that the output of this research is venue independent, all models were tested on datasets previously excluded during the training and validation phase. Finally, various machine learning algorithms were compared using wide variety of evaluation metrics including ability to scale out the test bed to real world unsolicited datasets.
Energy and Spectrum Efficient Federated Learning via High-Precision Over-the-Air Computation
Li, Liang, Huang, Chenpei, Shi, Dian, Wang, Hao, Zhou, Xiangwei, Shu, Minglei, Pan, Miao
Federated learning (FL) enables mobile devices to collaboratively learn a shared prediction model while keeping data locally. However, there are two major research challenges to practically deploy FL over mobile devices: (i) frequent wireless updates of huge size gradients v.s. To address those challenges, in this paper, we propose a novel multibit over-the-air computation (M-AirComp) approach for spectrum-efficient aggregation of local model updates in FL and further present an energy-efficient FL design for mobile devices. Specifically, a high-precision digital modulation scheme is designed and incorporated in the M-AirComp, allowing mobile devices to upload model updates at the selected positions simultaneously in the multi-access channel. Moreover, we theoretically analyze the convergence property of our FL algorithm. L. Li is with the School of Computer Science (National Pilot Software Engineering School), Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing, 100876, China (e-mail: liliang1127@bupt.edu.cn). C. Huang, D. Shi and M. Pan are with the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, University of Houston, TX, 77004, USA (e-mail: chuang25@uh.edu, H. Wang is with the Division of Computer Science and Engineering, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, 70803, USA (e-mail: haowang@lsu.edu).