학술논문

Temporally Correlated Compressed Sensing Using Generative Models for Channel Estimation in Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
Document Type
Periodical
Source
IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications IEEE Trans. Wireless Commun. Wireless Communications, IEEE Transactions on. 23(3):2112-2124 Mar, 2024
Subject
Communication, Networking and Broadcast Technologies
Computing and Processing
Signal Processing and Analysis
Channel estimation
Estimation
Autonomous aerial vehicles
Bayes methods
Channel models
Wireless communication
Compressed sensing
Model free estimation
deep compressed sensing
recurrent deep generative models
A2G channels
Language
ISSN
1536-1276
1558-2248
Abstract
Bayesian modelling of the channel distribution is a crucial step before channel recovery specially in the underdetermined scenario in multiple input multiple output (MIMO) antenna setups. In complicated dynamic propagation environments such as the ones encountered in Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) Air to Ground (A2G) channels, Bayesian modelling might not be feasible or the model may not be able to approximate the different aspects of the true distribution well enough. Thus, estimation performance will be affected irrespective of the efficiency of recovery algorithm. To exploit the temporal correlations and imperfections in the real channels in such a scenario, we design a temporally correlated adversarial regulariser using Variational recurrent neural networks (VRNN) and train the framework on simulated channel dataset. The framework can be trained directly with channel samples, thus, allowing channel modelling and estimation without explicit tractable Bayesian models in highly dynamic systems. We then propose a temporally correlated deep compressed sensing algorithm which does not depend on the expressibility of the networks and provide theoretical results for existence and recovery. Numerical experiments demonstrate its effectiveness for channel estimation in A2G channels and show superior channel recovery and improved modelling even for out-of-distribution channels.