Bypassing the CSI Bottleneck: MARL-Driven Spatial Control for Reflector Arrays
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| author | Le, Hieu Bedir, Oguz Ibrahim, Mostafa Tao, Jian Ekin, Sabit |
| author_facet | Le, Hieu Bedir, Oguz Ibrahim, Mostafa Tao, Jian Ekin, Sabit |
| contents | Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RIS) are pivotal for next-generation smart radio environments, yet their practical deployment is severely bottlenecked by the intractable computational overhead of Channel State Information (CSI) estimation. To bypass this fundamental physical-layer barrier, we propose an AI-native, data-driven paradigm that replaces complex channel modeling with spatial intelligence. This paper presents a fully autonomous Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning (MARL) framework to control mechanically adjustable metallic reflector arrays. By mapping high-dimensional mechanical constraints to a reduced-order virtual focal point space, we deploy a Centralized Training with Decentralized Execution (CTDE) architecture. Using Multi-Agent Proximal Policy Optimization (MAPPO), our decentralized agents learn cooperative beam-focusing strategies relying on user coordinates, achieving CSI-free operation. High-fidelity ray-tracing simulations in dynamic non-line-of-sight (NLOS) environments demonstrate that this multi-agent approach rapidly adapts to user mobility, yielding up to a 26.86 dB enhancement over static flat reflectors and outperforming single-agent and hardware-constrained DRL baselines in both spatial selectivity and temporal stability. Crucially, the learned policies exhibit good deployment resilience, sustaining stable signal coverage even under 1.0-meter localization noise. These results validate the efficacy of MARL-driven spatial abstractions as a scalable, highly practical pathway toward AI-empowered wireless networks. |
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| spellingShingle | Bypassing the CSI Bottleneck: MARL-Driven Spatial Control for Reflector Arrays Le, Hieu Bedir, Oguz Ibrahim, Mostafa Tao, Jian Ekin, Sabit Artificial Intelligence Signal Processing Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RIS) are pivotal for next-generation smart radio environments, yet their practical deployment is severely bottlenecked by the intractable computational overhead of Channel State Information (CSI) estimation. To bypass this fundamental physical-layer barrier, we propose an AI-native, data-driven paradigm that replaces complex channel modeling with spatial intelligence. This paper presents a fully autonomous Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning (MARL) framework to control mechanically adjustable metallic reflector arrays. By mapping high-dimensional mechanical constraints to a reduced-order virtual focal point space, we deploy a Centralized Training with Decentralized Execution (CTDE) architecture. Using Multi-Agent Proximal Policy Optimization (MAPPO), our decentralized agents learn cooperative beam-focusing strategies relying on user coordinates, achieving CSI-free operation. High-fidelity ray-tracing simulations in dynamic non-line-of-sight (NLOS) environments demonstrate that this multi-agent approach rapidly adapts to user mobility, yielding up to a 26.86 dB enhancement over static flat reflectors and outperforming single-agent and hardware-constrained DRL baselines in both spatial selectivity and temporal stability. Crucially, the learned policies exhibit good deployment resilience, sustaining stable signal coverage even under 1.0-meter localization noise. These results validate the efficacy of MARL-driven spatial abstractions as a scalable, highly practical pathway toward AI-empowered wireless networks. |
| title | Bypassing the CSI Bottleneck: MARL-Driven Spatial Control for Reflector Arrays |
| topic | Artificial Intelligence Signal Processing |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.05162 |