Arnold, Maximilian
Neural 5G Indoor Localization with IMU Supervision
Ermolov, Aleksandr, Kadambi, Shreya, Arnold, Maximilian, Hirzallah, Mohammed, Amiri, Roohollah, Singh, Deepak Singh Mahendar, Yerramalli, Srinivas, Dijkman, Daniel, Porikli, Fatih, Yoo, Taesang, Major, Bence
Radio signals are well suited for user localization because they are ubiquitous, can operate in the dark and maintain privacy. Many prior works learn mappings between channel state information (CSI) and position fully-supervised. However, that approach relies on position labels which are very expensive to acquire. In this work, this requirement is relaxed by using pseudo-labels during deployment, which are calculated from an inertial measurement unit (IMU). We propose practical algorithms for IMU double integration and training of the localization system. We show decimeter-level accuracy on simulated and challenging real data of 5G measurements. Our IMU-supervised method performs similarly to fully-supervised, but requires much less effort to deploy.
Vision-Assisted Digital Twin Creation for mmWave Beam Management
Arnold, Maximilian, Major, Bence, Massoli, Fabio Valerio, Soriaga, Joseph B., Behboodi, Arash
In the context of communication networks, digital twin technology provides a means to replicate the radio frequency (RF) propagation environment as well as the system behaviour, allowing for a way to optimize the performance of a deployed system based on simulations. One of the key challenges in the application of Digital Twin technology to mmWave systems is the prevalent channel simulators' stringent requirements on the accuracy of the 3D Digital Twin, reducing the feasibility of the technology in real applications. We propose a practical Digital Twin creation pipeline and a channel simulator, that relies only on a single mounted camera and position information. We demonstrate the performance benefits compared to methods that do not explicitly model the 3D environment, on downstream sub-tasks in beam acquisition, using the real-world dataset of the DeepSense6G challenge
Look, Radiate, and Learn: Self-Supervised Localisation via Radio-Visual Correspondence
Alloulah, Mohammed, Arnold, Maximilian
Next generation cellular networks will implement radio sensing functions alongside customary communications, thereby enabling unprecedented worldwide sensing coverage outdoors. Deep learning has revolutionised computer vision but has had limited application to radio perception tasks, in part due to lack of systematic datasets and benchmarks dedicated to the study of the performance and promise of radio sensing. To address this gap, we present MaxRay: a synthetic radio-visual dataset and benchmark that facilitate precise target localisation in radio. We further propose to learn to localise targets in radio without supervision by extracting self-coordinates from radio-visual correspondence. We use such self-supervised coordinates to train a radio localiser network. We characterise our performance against a number of state-of-the-art baselines. Our results indicate that accurate radio target localisation can be automatically learned from paired radio-visual data without labels, which is important for empirical data. This opens the door for vast data scalability and may prove key to realising the promise of robust radio sensing atop a unified communication-perception cellular infrastructure. Dataset will be hosted on IEEE DataPort.
Enabling FDD Massive MIMO through Deep Learning-based Channel Prediction
Arnold, Maximilian, Dörner, Sebastian, Cammerer, Sebastian, Yan, Sarah, Hoydis, Jakob, Brink, Stephan ten
A major obstacle for widespread deployment of frequency division duplex (FDD)-based Massive multiple-input multipleoutput (MIMO)communications is the large signaling overhead for reporting full downlink (DL) channel state information (CSI) back to the basestation (BS), in order to enable closed-loop precoding. We completely remove this overhead by a deep-learning based channel extrapolation (or "prediction") approach and demonstrate that a neural network (NN) at the BS can infer the DL CSI centered around a frequency f UL; nomore pilot/reporting overhead is needed than with a genuine time division duplex (TDD)-based system. The rationale is that scatterers and the large-scale propagation environment are sufficiently similar to allow a NN to learn about the physical connections and constraints between two neighboring frequency bands, and thus provide a well-operating system even when classic extrapolation methods, like the Wiener filter (used as a baseline for comparison throughout) fails. We study its performance for various state-of-the-art Massive MIMO channel models, and, even more so, evaluate the scheme using actual Massive MIMO channel measurements, rendering it to be practically feasible at negligible loss in spectral efficiency when compared to a genuine TDD-based system. I. INTRODUCTION With a significant increase in area throughput, Massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) antenna communication has become an enabling technology for the upcoming fifth generation (5G) wireless mobile communication systems [1], [2], [3], [4]. However, Massive MIMO systems described in current research literature commonly exploit channel reciprocity and hence rely on time division duplex (TDD)-based approaches [1], i.e., uplink (UL) and downlink (DL) channels share the same frequency band in orthogonal time intervals. Achieving such reciprocity in practice requires accurate hardware with costly calibration circuitry. To mitigate this issue, various alternatives to a full Massive MIMO system have been proposed such as the grid of beams [5] and codebook Massive MIMO [6].