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Image denoising-based cell-level RSRP estimation method for urban areas
Yi ZHENG, Cunyi LIAO, Tianqian ZHANG, Ji WANG, Shouyin LIU
Journal of Computer Applications    2024, 44 (3): 855-862.   DOI: 10.11772/j.issn.1001-9081.2023030292
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The planning, deployment and optimization of mobile communication system networks all depend to varying degrees on the accuracy of the Reference Signal Receiving Power (RSRP) estimation. Traditionally, the RSRP of a signal receiver in a cell covered by a base station can be estimated by the corresponding wireless propagation model. In an urban environment, the wireless propagation models for different cells need to be calibrated using a large number of RSRP measurements. Due to the environment differences of different cells, the calibrated model is only applicable to the corresponding cell, and has low accuracy of RSRP estimation within the cell. To address these issues, the RSRP estimation problem was transformed into an image denoising problem and a cell-level wireless propagation model was obtained through image processing and deep learning techniques, which not only enabled RSRP estimation for the cell as a whole, but also was suitable to cells in similar environments. Firstly, the RSRP estimation map of the whole cell was obtained by predicting the RSRP of each receiver point by point through a random forest regressor. Then, the loss between the RSRP estimation map and the measured RSRP distribution map was regarded as the RSRP noise map, and a image denoising RSRP estimation method based on Conditional Generative Adversarial Network (CGAN) was proposed to reflect the environmental information of the cell through an electronic environmental map, which effectively reduced the RSRP of different cell. Experimental results show that the root mean square error of the proposed method is 6.77 dBm in predicting RSRP in a new cross-cell RSRP scenario without measured data, which is 2.55 dBm lower than that of the convolutional neural network-based RSRP estimation method EFsNet; in the same-cell RSRP prediction scenario, the number of model parameters is reduced by 80.3% compared with EFsNet.

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