Efficient Transmission of Radiomaps via Physics-Enhanced Semantic Communications

Enriching information of spectrum coverage, radiomap plays an important role in many wireless communication applications, such as resource allocation and network optimization. To enable real-time, distributed spectrum management, particularly in the scenarios with unstable and dynamic environments, the efficient transmission of spectrum coverage information for radiomaps from edge devices to the central server emerges as a critical problem. In this work, we propose an innovative physics-enhanced semantic communication framework tailored for efficient radiomap transmission based on generative learning models. Specifically, instead of bit-wise message passing, we only transmit the key “semantics” in radiomaps characterized by the radio propagation behavior and surrounding environments, where semantic compression schemes are utilized to reduce the communication overhead. Incorporating the novel concepts of Radio Depth Maps, the radiomaps are reconstructed from the delivered semantic information backboned on the conditional generative adversarial networks. Our framework is further extended to facilitate its implementation in the scenarios of multi-user edge computing, by integrating with federated learning for collaborative model training while preserving the data privacy. Experimental results show that our approach achieves high accuracy in radio coverage information recovery at ultra-high bandwidth efficiency, which has great potentials in many wireless-generated data transmission applications.