Distributed deep convolutional compression for massive MIMO CSI feedback
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Author(s)
Mashhadi, Mahdi Boloursaz
Yang, Qianqian
Gunduz, Deniz
Type
Journal Article
Abstract
Massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems require downlink channel state information (CSI) at the base station (BS) to achieve spatial diversity and multiplexing gains. In a frequency division duplex (FDD) multiuser massive MIMO network, each user needs to compress and feedback its downlink CSI to the BS. The CSI overhead scales with the number of antennas, users and subcarriers, and becomes a major bottleneck for the overall spectral efficiency. In this paper, we propose a deep learning (DL)-based CSI compression scheme, called DeepCMC, composed of convolutional layers followed by quantization and entropy coding blocks. In comparison with previous DL-based CSI reduction structures, DeepCMC proposes a novel fully-convolutional neural network (NN) architecture, with residual layers at the decoder, and incorporates quantization and entropy coding blocks into its design. DeepCMC is trained to minimize a weighted rate-distortion cost, which enables a trade-off between the CSI quality and its feedback overhead. Simulation results demonstrate that DeepCMC outperforms the state of the art CSI compression schemes in terms of the reconstruction quality of CSI for the same compression rate. We also propose a distributed version of DeepCMC for a multi-user MIMO scenario to encode and reconstruct the CSI from multiple users in a distributed manner. Distributed DeepCMC not only utilizes the inherent CSI structures of a single MIMO user for compression, but also benefits from the correlations among the channel matrices of nearby users to further improve the performance in comparison with DeepCMC. We also propose a reduced-complexity training method for distributed DeepCMC, allowing to scale it to multiple users, and suggest a cluster-based distributed DeepCMC approach for practical implementation.
Date Issued
2021-04-01
Date Acceptance
2020-11-30
Citation
IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, 2021, 20 (4), pp.2621-2633
ISSN
1536-1276
Publisher
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Start Page
2621
End Page
2633
Journal / Book Title
IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications
Volume
20
Issue
4
Copyright Statement
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Sponsor
Commission of the European Communities
Identifier
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9296555
Grant Number
677854
Subjects
Networking & Telecommunications
0805 Distributed Computing
0906 Electrical and Electronic Engineering
1005 Communications Technologies
Publication Status
Published
Date Publish Online
2020-12-16