Remote Interference Discrimination Testbed Employing AI Ensemble Algorithms for 6G TDD Networks

Sensors (Basel). 2023 Feb 17;23(4):2264. doi: 10.3390/s23042264.

Abstract

The Internet-of-Things (IoT) massive access is a significant scenario for sixth-generation (6G) communications. However, low-power IoT devices easily suffer from remote interference caused by the atmospheric duct under the 6G time-division duplex (TDD) mode. It causes distant downlink wireless signals to propagate beyond the designed protection distance and interfere with local uplink signals, leading to a large outage probability. In this paper, a remote interference discrimination testbed is originally proposed to detect interference, which supports the comparison of different types of algorithms on the testbed. Specifically, 5,520,000 TDD network-side data collected by real sensors are used to validate the interference discrimination capabilities of nine promising AI algorithms. Moreover, a consistent comparison of the testbed shows that the ensemble algorithm achieves an average accuracy of 12% higher than the single model algorithm.

Keywords: Bagging; ensemble algorithms; interference discrimination testbed; remote interference.

Grants and funding

This research was funded by the Science and Technology Commission Foundation of Shanghai (Nos. 21511101400 and 22511100600).