TIG 技术报告分析

July2022

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XiaofeiWang(InterDigitalInc.)

IEEEP802.11

WirelessLANs

IEEE802.11AIMLTIGTechnicalReportDraft

Date:2022-07-06

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XiaofeiWang

InterDigitalInc.

111West33rdStreet

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+1-607-592-2727

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MingGan

Huawei

Ming.gan@

ZinanLin

InterDigital

RuiYang

InterDigital

AiguoYan

Zeku

JunghoonSuh

Huawei

ZiyangGuo

Huawei

MarcoHernadez

NICT

LiangxiaoXin

Zeku

Abstract

ThisdocumentcontainsthetechnicalreportoftheIEEE802.11AIMLTIG.

R0:initialoutline

R1:insertionofUsecase1

R2:insertionofIntroduction

TableofContents

Introduction

Terminologies

AIML ArtificialIntelligence/MachineLearning

CSI ChannelStateInformation

UHR UltraHighReliability

Backgroundinformation

ArtificialIntelligence/MachineLearning(AI/ML)algorithmshavemadesignificantprogressandarebeingappliedinmanydomains,includingmedicaldiagnosis,speechrecognition,computervision,andintegrationofvisionandcontrolforrobotics.Inaddition,AI/MLalgorithmsareemergingasimportantcomponentsinmanyapplicationssuchasautonomousdriving,languagetranslationandhuman-machineinteractions.

TraditionalAI/MLtechniquesarebasedonacentralizedmodelwhichrequiresexchangingalargeamountofdatabetweendatasourcesandacentralizedserver.Morerecently,distributedAI/MLalgorithmssuchasfederatedlearninghavebeendevelopedthatwillallowmoreanalysisatthesourceandreducetheamountofdatathatneedtobeexchanged,thoughtheexpectedamountofexchangeddataremainssignificant.Withtheprevalenceofwirelessnetworksandcommunications,muchoftheexchangeddataisexpectedtobecarriedthroughwirelessnetworks,suchasIEEE802.11WLANnetworks.

StudieshaveshownthatAI/MLalgorithmscanhelpimprovetheperformanceforwirelesscommunicationnetworks,byprovidingbetterresourceusage,lowerenergyconsumption,higherreliabilityandmorerobustnesstoachangingenvironment.Asthesealgorithmsbecomemorematureandcosteffective,WLANmayleverageAI/MLforenhancednetworkperformanceanduserexperience.

InMay2022,theIEEE802.11WorkingGroup(WG)hasapprovedtheformingoftheAIMLTaskInterestGroup(TIG)bythefollowingmotion[1]:

Motion5:TIGRe:AI/MLusein802.11

ApproveformationofaTopicInterestGroup(TIG)to:

(a)describeusecasesforArtificialIntelligence/MachineLearning(AI/ML)applicabilityin802.11systemsand

(b)investigatethetechnicalfeasibilityoffeaturesenablingsupportofAI/ML.

TheTIGistocompleteareportonthistopicatorbeforetheMarch2023session.

ThistechnicalreportisthefinalreportoftheAIMLTIGtotheIEEE802.11WGdetailingvariousAIMLusecasesdiscussedduringtheAIMLTIG.Foreachusecase,anumberofKeyPerformanceIndicators(KPIs)havebeenidentifiedandrequirementsandtechnicalfeasibilityanalysishavebeenprovided.

AIMLUsecasesforIEEE802.11

Note:usecasespotentiallycanbeorganizedintodifferentcategories

Note:usecasespotentiallycanidentifyKPIs

Usecase1:CSIfeedbackcompression

In802.11ax[1]andthedraftof802.11be[2],theAPinitiatesthesoundingsequencebytransmittingtheNDPAframefollowedbyaNDPwhichisusedforthegenerationofVmatrixatthebeamformee.UponthereceiptoftheNDPfromthebeamformer,thebeamforeeappliesacompressionscheme(i.e.,Givensrotations)ontheVmatrixandfeedsbacktheangelesinthebeamformingreportframe.

Itisindicatedin

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thathighernumberofspatialstreamshasbeenaninevitabletrendinWiFiformorethanadecade.Theprelimilaryresults

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showthatMIMOwithalargenumbertransmitterantennasandalargenumberofspatialstreams(e.g.,16spatialstreams)offerremarkablesystemperformancegainsonbothSU-MIMOandMU-MIMOcases.MultiAP(MAP)maybeonepotentialfeatureinthenext802.11generation,e.g.UHR

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.LargenumberofspatialstreamscombinedwithMAPfeaturemayfurtherincreasethesoundingfeedbackairtimeoverheadifcoordinationbetweenAPs(e.g.,jointtransmission/reception,coordinatedbeamforming)isapplied.Largeamountofoverheadorprolongedsoundingproceduresmaynegativelyimpactthelatencyandlimitthesystemperformance.Therefore,thereisaneedtoreducetheCSIoverheadespeciallywhenthenumberoftransmitterantennasgoeshigherormultipleAPsperformjointorcoordinatedtransmission.

Somestudies(e.g.,

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)haveshownthatAI/MLcanefficientlyreducetheCSIfeedbackandimprovethesystemthroughput.Forexample,motivatedbythenaturethattheCSImayfallintodifferentclustersduetothechannelsimilarityofnearbySTAs,iFORalgorithm

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appliestheunsupervisedlearning,K-mean,totheCSIcompressiontoclassifytheanglevectorswhicharederivedfromVmatrix.Simulationresultsshowthatfora8x2SU-MIMO,iFORusesaround8%ofthenumberofbitsrequiredbytheexistingfeedbackmechanism(802.11ax)andboostthesystemthroughputbyupto52%.In

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,anotherunsupervisedlearning,DeepNeuralNetworkAutoencoder(DNN-AE)isappliedtoCSIanglevectorsandfurthercompressesthederivedangles(LB-SciFi)byleveraingthecompressioncapabilityofDNNs.ExperimentalresultsshowthatLB-SciFireducesthefeedbackoverheadby73%andincreasesthenetworkthroughputby69%onaverage.

ThisusecaseproposestoapplyAI/MLtechniquetoCSIfeedbackschemestoreducetheCSIoverheadwithminimumlossofPERperformance.

KPIsconsideredinthisusecaseareproposedasfollows:

Numberoffeedbackbitspersubcarriergroup

AchievedPER

BothSU-MIMOandMU-MIMOcasesneedtobeconsidered

AdditionalAIMLoverheadcompredwithcompressionsaving

OneexampleistheratiobetweenthenumberofadditionalbitsrequiredbyAIMLprocess(includingdatausedformodeltraining/inference

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themodelparameters,theadditionalsignaling)andthenumberofbitssavedbytheCSIfeedbackscheme.Inthisexample,ifthedatausedformodeltrainingthatisperformedbytheAPfullyreliesonthelegacyCSIreport,thentheadditionalAIMLusedformodeltraining/inferencemaybe0.

Computationcomplexity/Latency:

AdditionaldelayorcomputationisintroducedbyAIMLprocessing

Eveluationmethodologyneedstobeestablished.

Usecase2

UsecaseN

RequirementsandPotentialfeaturesanalysis(highlevel)

Requirements

RequirementsUsecase1:CSIfeedbackcompression

Performanceshouldfollowtheguidiancebelow:

CSIairtimereduction:achievearitimereductionofCSIfeedbackover802.11beforagivenNrxNcMIMO,whereNristhenumberofrowsinthecompressedbeamformingfeeedbackmatrix,Ncisthenumberofcolumnsinthecompressedbeamformingfeedbackmatrix.

AdditionaloverheadusedforAIMLprocess:minimizetheadditionaloverheadusedforAIMLprocess.AdditionaloverheadmayincludethedatausedforAIMLmodeltraining/inference[14],themodelparametersandadditionalsignalling.ThedatausedforAIMLmodeltraining/inference[14]canreusethelegecyCSIreportdata.

PacketErrorrate(PER):guaranteeminimumSNRlosscomparedwith802.11betoachievethetargetPER(e.g.,1%and/or10%)atagivenMCSinalltypesofchannels

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Computationcomplexity/Latency:minimizetheadditionalcomputationcomplexityorlatencyrequiredbytheAIMLprocess

Potentialfeaturesanalysis

Technicalfeasibilityanalysis

Standardsimpact

UsecaseofCSIfeedbackcompression

Thestandardimpactmayinclude:

Additionalsignaling(e.g.,betweenAPandnon-APSTAs)requiredbyAIMLprocessPlaceholderforadditionaltechnicalfeasibilityanalysis

Technicalfeasibility

UsecaseofCSIfeedbackcompression

Thefollowingmetricswillbestudied:

Dataavailabilityandaccesibility:TherearesomeSTAsthatareabletousethedatatoperformAIMLmodeltrainingand/orinference

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.Thedatausedformodeltrainingand/orinferenceshallbeaccessiblefortheseSTAs.

AP/edgecomputingbasedAIML:Datamaybecollectedfromnon-APSTAs.Thelegeacy802.11CSIreportsmaybeusedastrainingdata.

DevicecomputingbasedAIML:DatashouldbeavailableatallSTAsthatsupportAIMLprocess.

Hardware/softwarecapability:TheSTAsthatuseAIMLtogeneratetheAIMLenabledCSIfeedbackcompressionshallhavethehardwareandsoftwarecapabilitytosupportAIMLalgorithm(s).

AP/edgecomputingbasedAIML

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:Extradataandmodel(e.g.,modelparameters)exchangemayberequiredtosupportAP/edgecomputingbasedAIML.However,computationisnotexpectedtobelocatedatAPoredgecomputingresourcesforwhichhighercomputationcapabilitiesisexpected.

DevicecomputingbasedAIML

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:STAsthatsupportAIMLmayberequiredtohaveextracomputationcapability.Extradataandmodel(e.g.,modelparameters)exchangebetweenSTAsmayalsoberequiredtosupportdevicecomputingbasedAIML.

Summary

References

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IEEE802.11-REVmeD2.0,October2022

IEEEP802.11beD2.2,October2022

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