A Convolutional Self-Attention Network for CSI Reconstruction in MIMO System

Abstract

A convolutional self-attention network-based channel state information reconstruction method is presented to address the issue of low reconstruction accuracy of channel state information in Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) at a high compression rate. First, an encoder-decoder structure-based channel state information reconstruction model is built. The feature is extracted by the encoder’s convolutional network, and the information is compressed by adding an attention block. At the same time, the compressed information is nonuniform quantized to prevent the transmission process from using up too much bandwidth. A dequantization module and an attention block are added to the decoder to reduce the impact of noise on the matrix, converting the continuous value into a discrete value to increase reconstruction accuracy and using the long-time cosine annealing training approach. According to the simulation results, when compared to CsiNet, Lightweight CNN, CRNet, and CLNet, convergence speed is improved by 17.64%, indoor reconstruction precision is improved by an average of 37.4%, and outside reconstruction accuracy is improved by an average of 32.5% under all compressions.