Robust Image Semantic Coding with Learnable CSI Fusion Masking over MIMO Fading Channels

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Hauptverfasser: Xie, Bingyan, Wu, Yongpeng, Shi, Yuxuan, Zhang, Wenjun, Cui, Shuguang, Debbah, Merouane
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author Xie, Bingyan
Wu, Yongpeng
Shi, Yuxuan
Zhang, Wenjun
Cui, Shuguang
Debbah, Merouane
author_facet Xie, Bingyan
Wu, Yongpeng
Shi, Yuxuan
Zhang, Wenjun
Cui, Shuguang
Debbah, Merouane
contents Though achieving marvelous progress in various scenarios, existing semantic communication frameworks mainly consider single-input single-output Gaussian channels or Rayleigh fading channels, neglecting the widely-used multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) channels, which hinders the application into practical systems. One common solution to combat MIMO fading is to utilize feedback MIMO channel state information (CSI). In this paper, we incorporate MIMO CSI into system designs from a new perspective and propose the learnable CSI fusion semantic communication (LCFSC) framework, where CSI is treated as side information by the semantic extractor to enhance the semantic coding. To avoid feature fusion due to abrupt combination of CSI with features, we present a non-invasive CSI fusion multi-head attention module inside the Swin Transformer. With the learned attention masking map determined by both source and channel states, more robust attention distribution could be generated. Furthermore, the percentage of mask elements could be flexibly adjusted by the learnable mask ratio, which is produced based on the conditional variational interference in an unsupervised manner. In this way, CSI-aware semantic coding is achieved through learnable CSI fusion masking. Experiment results testify the superiority of LCFSC over traditional schemes and state-of-the-art Swin Transformer-based semantic communication frameworks in MIMO fading channels.
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spellingShingle Robust Image Semantic Coding with Learnable CSI Fusion Masking over MIMO Fading Channels
Xie, Bingyan
Wu, Yongpeng
Shi, Yuxuan
Zhang, Wenjun
Cui, Shuguang
Debbah, Merouane
Information Theory
Machine Learning
Though achieving marvelous progress in various scenarios, existing semantic communication frameworks mainly consider single-input single-output Gaussian channels or Rayleigh fading channels, neglecting the widely-used multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) channels, which hinders the application into practical systems. One common solution to combat MIMO fading is to utilize feedback MIMO channel state information (CSI). In this paper, we incorporate MIMO CSI into system designs from a new perspective and propose the learnable CSI fusion semantic communication (LCFSC) framework, where CSI is treated as side information by the semantic extractor to enhance the semantic coding. To avoid feature fusion due to abrupt combination of CSI with features, we present a non-invasive CSI fusion multi-head attention module inside the Swin Transformer. With the learned attention masking map determined by both source and channel states, more robust attention distribution could be generated. Furthermore, the percentage of mask elements could be flexibly adjusted by the learnable mask ratio, which is produced based on the conditional variational interference in an unsupervised manner. In this way, CSI-aware semantic coding is achieved through learnable CSI fusion masking. Experiment results testify the superiority of LCFSC over traditional schemes and state-of-the-art Swin Transformer-based semantic communication frameworks in MIMO fading channels.
title Robust Image Semantic Coding with Learnable CSI Fusion Masking over MIMO Fading Channels
topic Information Theory
Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.07389