An Adaptive and Parameter-Free Recurrent Neural Structure for Wireless Channel Prediction

Abstract

Predicting channel state information (CSI) is a fundamental element in wireless communications systems. An accurate CSI estimation and prediction is critical to the system performance. This paper introduces a recurrent neural network (RNN) based approach for real-time prediction in real-world non-stationary channels. It uses the recent history data for online training, followed by prediction employing the trained model, in order to adapt to the changing channel and obtain a more accurate CSI prediction compared to conventional methods. Furthermore, the proposed method needs no additional knowledge, such as the internal properties of the channel itself, or the external features that affect the channel propagation, greatly facilitating its use in practical systems. Simulation results show that the proposed adaptive and parameter free recurrent neural structure (APF-RNS) outperforms the existing methods under a dynamically changing non-stationary environment. Therefore, the proposed online training based RNN approach is a promising method for channel prediction in wireless communications.