CKMDiff: a generative diffusion model for CKM construction via inverse problems with learned priors
摘要
Channel knowledge map (CKM) is a promising technology for enabling environment-aware wireless communications and sensing by providing a priori location-specific channel information. One fundamental problem lies in constructing high-quality and complete CKMs for all locations of interest from limited and noisy on-site channel measurements, which constitutes a long-standing ill-posed inverse problem. By utilizing the recent advances of solving inverse problems with learned priors using generative artificial intelligence (AI), this paper proposes CKMDiff, a conditional diffusion-based generative framework for CKM construction. CKMDiff supports multiple CKM reconstruction tasks, including denoising, inpainting, and super-resolution. In addition, a wireless semantic-guided feature augmentation strategy is introduced to enhance the model’s ability to capture implicit relationships between electromagnetic propagation characteristics and spatial-geometric structures. Experimental results on the CKMImageNet and RadioMapSeer datasets demonstrate that the proposed CKMDiff achieves superior performance compared with existing benchmark methods.