Ian Wassell

Stefanos Bakirtzis, Cagkan Yapar, Marco Fiore et al.

The efficient deployment and operation of any wireless communication ecosystem rely on knowledge of the received signal quality over the target coverage area. This knowledge is typically acquired through radio propagation solvers, which however suffer from intrinsic and well-known performance limitations. This article provides a primer on how integrating deep learning and conventional propagation modeling techniques can enhance multiple vital facets of wireless network operation, and yield benefits in terms of efficiency and reliability. By highlighting the pivotal role that the deep learning-based radio propagation models will assume in next-generation wireless networks, we aspire to propel further research in this direction and foster their adoption in additional applications.

Stefanos Bakirtzis, Çağkan Yapar, Kehai Qiu et al.

To encourage further research and to facilitate fair comparisons in the development of deep learning-based radio propagation models, in the less explored case of directional radio signal emissions in indoor propagation environments, we have launched the ICASSP 2025 First Indoor Pathloss Radio Map Prediction Challenge. This overview paper describes the indoor path loss prediction problem, the datasets used, the Challenge tasks, and the evaluation methodology. Finally, the results of the Challenge and a summary of the submitted methods are presented.

Joseph Zammit, Ian J Wassell

Video block compressive sensing has been studied for use in resource constrained scenarios, such as wireless sensor networks, but the approach still suffers from low performance and long reconstruction time. Inspired by classical distributed video coding, we design a lightweight encoder with computationally intensive operations, such as video frame interpolation, performed at the decoder. Straying from recent trends in training end-to-end neural networks, we propose two algorithms that leverage convolutional neural network components to reconstruct video with greatly reduced reconstruction time. At the encoder, we leverage temporal correlation between frames and deploy adaptive techniques based on compressive measurements from previous frames. At the decoder, we exploit temporal correlation by using video frame interpolation and temporal differential pulse code modulation. Simulations show that our two proposed algorithms, VAL-VFI and VAL-IDA-VFI reconstruct higher quality video, achieving state-of-the-art performance.

Xin Ding, Wei Chen, Ian J. Wassell

Tensor Compressive Sensing (TCS) is a multidimensional framework of Compressive Sensing (CS), and it is advantageous in terms of reducing the amount of storage, easing hardware implementations and preserving multidimensional structures of signals in comparison to a conventional CS system. In a TCS system, instead of using a random sensing matrix and a predefined dictionary, the average-case performance can be further improved by employing an optimized multidimensional sensing matrix and a learned multilinear sparsifying dictionary. In this paper, we propose a joint optimization approach of the sensing matrix and dictionary for a TCS system. For the sensing matrix design in TCS, an extended separable approach with a closed form solution and a novel iterative non-separable method are proposed when the multilinear dictionary is fixed. In addition, a multidimensional dictionary learning method that takes advantages of the multidimensional structure is derived, and the influence of sensing matrices is taken into account in the learning process. A joint optimization is achieved via alternately iterating the optimization of the sensing matrix and dictionary. Numerical experiments using both synthetic data and real images demonstrate the superiority of the proposed approaches.