Year: 2025
Type: conference-paper
Abstract: Massive multiple-input multiple-output (mMIMO) technology has transformed wireless communication by enhancing spectral efficiency and network capacity. This paper proposes a novel deep learning-based mMIMO precoder to tackle the complexity challenges of existing approaches, such as weighted minimum mean square error (WMMSE), while leveraging meta-learning domain generalization and a teacher-student architecture to improve generalization across diverse communication environments. When deployed to a previously unseen site, the proposed model achieves excellent sum-rate performance while maintaining low computational complexity by avoiding matrix inversions and by using a simpler neural network structure. The model is trained and tested on a custom ray-tracing dataset composed of several base station locations. The experimental results indicate that our method effectively balances computational efficiency with high sum-rate performance while showcasing strong generalization performance in unseen environments. Furthermore, with fine-tuning, the proposed model outperforms WMMSE across all tested sites and SNR conditions while reducing complexity by at least 73×.
Authors: Ali Hasanzadeh Karkan, Ahmed Ibrahim, Jean-François Frigon, François Leduc-Primeau
Institutions: Polytechnique Montréal, Ericsson (Canada)
Language: English
Subfield: Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Field: Engineering
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
Awards: G2115598847, G3208206543
OpenAlex ID: W4413967498