Journal on Communications ›› 2023, Vol. 44 ›› Issue (9): 104-114.doi: 10.11959/j.issn.1000-436x.2023169

• Papers • Previous Articles    

Adaptive pilot design for OFDM based on deep reinforcement learning

Qiaoshou LIU1,2,3, Xiong ZHOU1,2,3, Shuang LIU1,2,3, Yifeng DENG1,2,3   

  1. 1 School of Communications and Information Engineering, Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Chongqing 400065, China
    2 Advanced Network and Intelligent Connection Technology Key Laboratory of Chongqing Education Commission of China, Chongqing 400065, China
    3 Chongqing Key Laboratory of Ubiquitous Sensing and Networking, Chongqing 400065, China
  • Revised:2023-08-10 Online:2023-09-01 Published:2023-09-01
  • Supported by:
    The National Natural Science Foundation of China(61901075);The Science and Technology Research Program of Chongqing Municipal Education Commission(KJZDK202200604)

Abstract:

For orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) systems, an adaptive pilot design algorithm based on deep reinforcement learning was proposed.The pilot design problem was formulated as a Markov decision process, where the index of pilot positions was defined as actions.A reward function based on mean squared error (MSE) reduction strategy was formulated, and deep reinforcement learning was employed to update the pilot positions.The pilot was adaptively and dynamically allocated based on channel conditions, thereby utilizing channel characteristics to combat channel fading.The simulation results show that the proposed algorithm has significantly improved channel estimation performance compared with the traditional pilot uniform allocation scheme under three typical multipath channels of 3GPP.

Key words: OFDM, deep reinforcement learning, Markov decision process, multipath channel

CLC Number: 

No Suggested Reading articles found!