학술논문

Learn to Adapt to New Environments From Past Experience and Few Pilot Blocks
Document Type
Periodical
Source
IEEE Transactions on Cognitive Communications and Networking IEEE Trans. Cogn. Commun. Netw. Cognitive Communications and Networking, IEEE Transactions on. 9(2):373-385 Apr, 2023
Subject
Communication, Networking and Broadcast Technologies
Components, Circuits, Devices and Systems
Computing and Processing
Channel estimation
Training
Adaptation models
Feature extraction
Wireless communication
Switches
Task analysis
deep learning
few-shot learning
power delay profile
attention mechanism
Language
ISSN
2332-7731
2372-2045
Abstract
In recent years, deep learning has been widely applied in communications and achieved remarkable performance improvement. Most of the existing works are based on data-driven deep learning, which requires a significant amount of training data for the communication model to adapt to new environments and results in huge computing resources for collecting data and retraining the model. In this paper, we will significantly reduce the required amount of training data for new environments by leveraging the learning experience from the known environments. Therefore, we introduce few-shot learning to enable the communication model to generalize to new environments, which is realized by an attention-based method. With the attention network embedded into the deep learning-based communication model, environments with different power delay profiles can be learnt together in the training process, which is called the learning experience. By exploiting the learning experience, the communication model only requires few pilot blocks to perform well in the new environment. Through an example of deep-learning-based channel estimation, we demonstrate that this novel design method achieves better performance than the existing data-driven approach designed for few-shot learning.