Spatially Consistent Air-to-Ground Channel Modeling via Generative Neural Networks

Author:

Amedeo Giuliani, Rasoul Nikbakht, Giovanni Geraci, Seongjoon Kang, Angel Lozano, Sundeep Rangan

Keyword:

Computer Science, Information Theory, Information Theory (cs.IT), Networking and Internet Architecture (cs.NI), Signal Processing (eess.SP)

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date:

2024-02-05 00:00:00

Abstract

This article proposes a generative neural network architecture for spatially consistent air-to-ground channel modeling. The approach considers the trajectories of uncrewed aerial vehicles along typical urban paths, capturing spatial dependencies within received signal strength (RSS) sequences from multiple cellular base stations (gNBs). Through the incorporation of conditioning data, the model accurately discriminates between gNBs and drives the correlation matrix distance between real and generated sequences to minimal values. This enables evaluating performance and mobility management metrics with spatially (and by extension temporally) consistent RSS values, rather than independent snapshots. For some tasks underpinned by these metrics, say handovers, consistency is essential.

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