Year: 2025
Type: preprint
Abstract: Environmental sensing can significantly enhance mmWave communications by assisting beam training, yet its benefits must be balanced against the associated sensing costs. To this end, we propose a unified machine learning framework that dynamically determines when to sense and leverages sensory data for beam prediction. Specifically, we formulate a joint sensing and beamforming problem that maximizes the average signal-to-noise ratio under an average sensing budget. Lyapunov optimization is employed to enforce the sensing constraint, while a deep Q-Network determines the sensing slots. A pretrained deep neural network then maps the sensing data to optimal beams in the codebook. Simulations based on the real-world DeepSense dataset demonstrate that the proposed approach substantially reduces sensing overhead while maintaining satisfactory communications performance.
Source: arXiv (Cornell University)
Authors: Zakeri, Abolfazl, Nguyen, Nhan Thanh, Alkhateeb, Ahmed, Juntti, Markku
Language: English
Subfield: Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Field: Engineering
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W7083340434
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