Title
Triplet-Based Wireless Channel Charting
Abstract
Channel charting is a data-driven baseband processing technique consisting in applying unsupervised machine learning techniques to channel state information (CSI), with the objective of reducing the dimension of the data and extracting the fundamental parameters governing the distribution of CSI samples observed by a given receiver. In this work, we focus on neural network-based approaches, and propose a new architecture based on triplets of samples. It allows to simultaneously learn a meaningful similarity metric between CSI samples, on the basis of proximity in their respective acquisition times, and to perform the sought dimensionality reduction. The proposed approach is evaluated on a dataset of measured massive MIMO CSI, and is shown to perform well in comparison to the state-of-the-art methods (UMAP, autoencoders and siamese networks). In particular, we show that the obtained chart representation is topologically close to the geographical user position, despite the fact that the charting approach is not supervised by any geographical data.
Year
DOI
Venue
2020
10.1109/GLOBECOM42002.2020.9322643
GLOBECOM
DocType
Citations 
PageRank 
Conference
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Ferrand Paul100.34
Alexis Decurninge2317.78
Ordoñez Luis G.300.34
Maxime Guillaud431530.64