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Transfer Learning for CSI-Based Positioning With Multi-Environment Meta-Learning

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Anastasios Foliadis
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Mario H. Castañeda García
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Richard A. Stirling-Gallacher
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Reiner S. Thomä
DOI:10.1109/TWC.2025.3575001delete
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Abstract

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Utilizing deep learning (DL) techniques for radio-based positioning of user equipment (UE) through channel state information (CSI) fingerprints has demonstrated significant potential. DL models can extract complex characteristics from the CSI fingerprints of a particular environment and accurately predict the position of a UE. Nonetheless, the effectiveness of the DL model trained on CSI fingerprints is highly dependent on the particular training environment, limiting the trained model’s applicability across different environments. This paper proposes a novel DL model structure consisting of two parts, where the first part aims at identifying features that are independent from any specific environment, while the second part combines those features in an environment specific way with the goal of positioning. To train such a two-part model, we propose the multi-environment meta-learning (MEML) approach for the first part to facilitate training across various environments, while the second part of the model is trained solely on data from a specific environment. Our findings indicate that employing the MEML approach for initializing the weights of the DL model for a new unseen environment significantly boosts the accuracy of UE positioning in the new target environment as well the reliability of its uncertainty estimation. This method outperforms traditional transfer learning methods, whether direct transfer learning (DTL) between environments or completely training from scratch with data from a new environment. The proposed approach is verified with real measurements for both line-of-sight (LOS) and non-LOS (NLOS) environments.
Keywords:
Wireless positioning
CSI
fingerprinting
transfer learning
meta-learning
deep learning

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IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications cover
IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications
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10.7
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1.3W
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5.3W

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Technische Universität Ilmenau
Scholars:
170
Papers: 78
Citations: 2.0K
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munich research center
Scholars:
7
Papers: 3
Citations: 0