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Pilot Contamination Aware Transformer for Downlink Power Control in Cell-Free Massive MIMO Networks
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IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, Volume 25, pp. 9656-9671
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Learning-based downlink power control in cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (CFmMIMO) systems offers a promising alternative to conventional iterative optimization algorithms, which are computationally intensive due to online iterative steps. Existing learning-based methods, however, often fail to exploit the intrinsic structure of channel data and neglect pilot allocation information, leading to suboptimal performance, especially in large-scale networks with many users. This paper introduces the pilot contamination-aware power control (PAPC) transformer neural network, a novel approach that integrates pilot allocation data into the network, effectively handling pilot contamination scenarios. PAPC employs the attention mechanism with a custom masking technique to utilize structural information and pilot data. The architecture includes tailored preprocessing and post-processing stages for efficient feature extraction and adherence to power constraints. Trained in an unsupervised learning framework, PAPC is evaluated against the accelerated proximal gradient (APG) algorithm, showing comparable spectral efficiency fairness performance, while significantly improving computational efficiency. Simulations demonstrate PAPC’s superior performance over fully connected networks (FCNs) that lack pilot information, its scalability to large-scale CFmMIMO networks, and its computational efficiency improvement over APG. PAPC is further validated through ablation studies and evaluated across several representative CFmMIMO scenarios, demonstrating robustness to pilot contamination, scalability, and adaptability to varying user counts without retraining.
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Bidirectional encoder Representations from Transformers (BERT), Deep Learning, Downlink Power Control, Generative Pretrained Transformer (GPT), Large-Scale Cell-Free Massive MIMO (CFmMIMO), Pilot Contamination, Pilot contamination-Aware Power Control (PAPC), Transformer Neural Network, bidirectional encoder representations from transformers (BERT), pilot contamination, pilot contamination-aware power control (PAPC), transformer neural network, generative pretrained transformer (GPT), Large-scale cell-free massive MIMO (CFmMIMO), deep learning, downlink power control
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Kocharlakota, A K, Vorobyov, S A & Heath, R W 2026, 'Pilot Contamination Aware Transformer for Downlink Power Control in Cell-Free Massive MIMO Networks', IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 25, pp. 9656-9671. https://doi.org/10.1109/TWC.2025.3643786