Model-Driven Deep Learning Scheme for Adaptive Transmission in MIMO-SCFDE System

Adaptive transmission (AT) is considered as one of the critical technologies to enhance the effectiveness of communication systems. In this article, we propose a model-driven deep learning (DL) scheme for AT in multiple-input multiple-output single-carrier frequency-domain equalization (MIMO-SCFDE) systems, in which the adaptive modulation network (AMNet) and adaptive demodulation network (ADNet) are adopted to complete the modulation of the signal and the modulation recognition of the receiver. Under the target bit error rate (BER), the adaptive modulation (AM) scheme can adjust the modulation mode selection of different transmitting antennas adaptively according to the estimated channel information to improve the throughput. The features required by the AMNet are extracted from the received signal, and the labels are assigned according to the optimal modulation scheme got by analyzing the signal detection performance. Since the spectral correlation function has a powerful ability to suppress noise and the cyclic spectrum varies with the modulation mode, we take the preprocessed cyclic spectrogram as the input of ADNet to achieve the adaptive modulation recognition (AMR). Comparative experiments demonstrate that the proposed scheme gets better performance in terms of throughput and reliability in MIMO-SCFDE systems than the traditional scheme and the existing DL scheme.