Title
Benchmarking End-To-End Learning Of Mimo Physical-Layer Communication
Abstract
End-to-end data-driven machine learning (ML) of multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems has been shown to have the potential of exceeding the performance of engineered M IMO transceivers, without any a priori knowledge of communication-theoretic principles. In this work, we aim to understand to what extent and for which scenarios this claim holds true when comparing with fair benchmarks. We study closed-loop MIMO, open-loop MIMO, and multi-user MIMO (MU-MIMO) and show that the gains of ML-based communication in the former two cases can be to a large extent ascribed to implicitly learned geometric shaping and bit and power allocation, not to learning new spatial encoders. For MU-MIMO, we demonstrate the feasibility of a novel method with centralized learning and decentralized executing, outperforming conventional zero-forcing. For each scenario, we provide explicit descriptions as well as open-source implementations of the selected neural-network architectures.
Year
DOI
Venue
2020
10.1109/GLOBECOM42002.2020.9322115
2020 IEEE GLOBAL COMMUNICATIONS CONFERENCE (GLOBECOM)
DocType
ISSN
Citations 
Conference
2334-0983
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Song Jinxiang100.34
Christian Häger213.06
jochen schroder314.01
O'Shea Tim400.34
Henk Wymeersch51589128.47