Multi-Task Learning for mmWave Transceiver Beam Prediction

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Abstract

Rigorous and reliable alignment of narrow transceiver beams is a requisite for ensuring the highly directional transmission in millimeter-wave (mmWave) communications. Exhaustively testing these narrow beam pairs results in increased reference signal (RS) overhead, latency, and power consumption. In this paper, we propose a centralized multi-task learning (MTL) based beam prediction strategy that ensures a high success rate using measurements from a few site-specific probing beams identified via the proposed uniformly distributed beam relevance and beam significance (UDBRBS) criterion, thereby obviating the need for an exhaustive scan. Performance evaluation over 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) defined performance indicators demonstrates that the proposed method outperforms existing independent task learning (ITL) and single task learning (STL) beam prediction designs. We further argue that the proposed strategy is highly practical for implementation in fifth generation (5G)-Advanced and sixth generation (6G) communication systems.

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Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)5535-5551
Number of pages17
JournalIEEE open journal of the Communications Society : an open acces publication of the IEEE Communications Society
Volume6
Early online date25 Jun 2025
Publication statusPublished - 2025
Peer-reviewedYes

External IDs

ORCID /0000-0002-0738-556X/work/187083530
ORCID /0000-0002-1315-7635/work/187084916
ORCID /0000-0001-7075-8990/work/187085212
Scopus 105009299764

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Keywords

  • Fifth generation (5G)-Advanced, beam management (BM), beam prediction, machine learning (ML), millimeter-wave (mmWave), multi-task learning (MTL), sixth generation (6G)