ReVeal: A Physics-Informed Neural Network for High-Fidelity Radio Environment Mapping

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Main Authors: Shahid, Mukaram, Das, Kunal, Ushaq, Hadia, Zhang, Hongwei, Song, Jimming, Qiao, Daji, Babu, Sarath, Guan, Yong, Zhu, Zhengyuan, Ahmed, Arsalan
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author Shahid, Mukaram
Das, Kunal
Ushaq, Hadia
Zhang, Hongwei
Song, Jimming
Qiao, Daji
Babu, Sarath
Guan, Yong
Zhu, Zhengyuan
Ahmed, Arsalan
author_facet Shahid, Mukaram
Das, Kunal
Ushaq, Hadia
Zhang, Hongwei
Song, Jimming
Qiao, Daji
Babu, Sarath
Guan, Yong
Zhu, Zhengyuan
Ahmed, Arsalan
contents Accurately mapping the radio environment (e.g., identifying wireless signal strength at specific frequency bands and geographic locations) is crucial for efficient spectrum sharing, enabling secondary users (SUs) to access underutilized spectrum bands while protecting primary users (PUs). However, current models are either not generalizable due to shadowing, interference, and fading or are computationally too expensive, limiting real-world applicability. To address the shortcomings of existing models, we derive a second-order partial differential equation (PDE) for the Received Signal Strength Indicator (RSSI) based on a statistical model used in the literature. We then propose ReVeal (Re-constructor and Visualizer of Spectrum Landscape), a novel Physics-Informed Neural Network (PINN) that integrates the PDE residual into a neural network loss function to accurately model the radio environment based on sparse RF sensor measurements. ReVeal is validated using real-world measurement data from the rural and suburban areas of the ARA testbed and benchmarked against existing methods.ReVeal outperforms the existing methods in predicting the radio environment; for instance, with a root mean square error (RMSE) of only 1.95 dB, ReVeal achieves an accuracy that is an order of magnitude higher than existing methods such as the 3GPP and ITU-R channel models, ray-tracing, and neural networks. ReVeal achieves both high accuracy and low computational complexity while only requiring sparse RF sampling, for instance, only requiring 30 training sample points across an area of 514 square kilometers.
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spellingShingle ReVeal: A Physics-Informed Neural Network for High-Fidelity Radio Environment Mapping
Shahid, Mukaram
Das, Kunal
Ushaq, Hadia
Zhang, Hongwei
Song, Jimming
Qiao, Daji
Babu, Sarath
Guan, Yong
Zhu, Zhengyuan
Ahmed, Arsalan
Signal Processing
Accurately mapping the radio environment (e.g., identifying wireless signal strength at specific frequency bands and geographic locations) is crucial for efficient spectrum sharing, enabling secondary users (SUs) to access underutilized spectrum bands while protecting primary users (PUs). However, current models are either not generalizable due to shadowing, interference, and fading or are computationally too expensive, limiting real-world applicability. To address the shortcomings of existing models, we derive a second-order partial differential equation (PDE) for the Received Signal Strength Indicator (RSSI) based on a statistical model used in the literature. We then propose ReVeal (Re-constructor and Visualizer of Spectrum Landscape), a novel Physics-Informed Neural Network (PINN) that integrates the PDE residual into a neural network loss function to accurately model the radio environment based on sparse RF sensor measurements. ReVeal is validated using real-world measurement data from the rural and suburban areas of the ARA testbed and benchmarked against existing methods.ReVeal outperforms the existing methods in predicting the radio environment; for instance, with a root mean square error (RMSE) of only 1.95 dB, ReVeal achieves an accuracy that is an order of magnitude higher than existing methods such as the 3GPP and ITU-R channel models, ray-tracing, and neural networks. ReVeal achieves both high accuracy and low computational complexity while only requiring sparse RF sampling, for instance, only requiring 30 training sample points across an area of 514 square kilometers.
title ReVeal: A Physics-Informed Neural Network for High-Fidelity Radio Environment Mapping
topic Signal Processing
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.19646