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Data Augmentation for Predictive Digital Twin Channel: Learning Multi-Domain Correlations by Convolutional TimeGAN
Document Type
Periodical
Source
IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing IEEE J. Sel. Top. Signal Process. Selected Topics in Signal Processing, IEEE Journal of. 18(1):18-33 Jan, 2024
Subject
Signal Processing and Analysis
Wireless communication
Data augmentation
Generative adversarial networks
Training
Correlation
Aging
MIMO communication
Digital twin (DT) channel
data augmentation
multi-domain correlations
machine learning
generative adversarial networks (GAN)
Language
ISSN
1932-4553
1941-0484
Abstract
In order to realize advanced system design for the sophisticated mobile networks, predictive digital twin (DT) channel is constructed via data-driven approaches to provide high-accuracy channel prediction. However, lacking sufficient time-series datasets leads to overfitting, which degrades the prediction accuracy of the DT channel. In this article, data augmentation is investigated for constructing the predictive DT channel, while enhancing its capability of tackling channel aging problem. The feature space needs to be learned by guaranteeing that the synthetic datasets have the same channel coefficient distribution and time-frequency-space domain correlations as the original ones. Therefore, convolutional time-series generative adversarial network (TimeGAN) is proposed to capture the intrinsic features of the original datasets and then generate synthetic samples. Specifically, the embedding network and recovery network provide a latent space by reducing the dimensions of the original channel datasets, while adversarial learning operates in this space via sequence generator and sequence discriminator. Simulation results demonstrate that the synthetic dataset has the same channel coefficient distribution and multi-domain correlations as the original one. Moreover, the proposed data augmentation scheme effectively improves the prediction accuracy of the DT channel in a dynamic wireless environment, thereby increasing the achievable spectral efficiency in an aging channel.