an adaptive channel modeling framework based on a strengthened conditional generative adversarial network (GAN) is proposed. It utilizes the extended GAN for training to approximately estimate the response of wireless channels and thus stimulate the actual wireless channels. To improve both the GAN training stability and learning capability
conditional information and gradient penalty terms are introduced. Besides
a strengthened conditional GAN frame
named condition reinforcement GAN (CR-GAN)
is proposed to extract the essential hidden characteristics of wireless channels. In addition
a hidden space sampling strategy is utilized to increase the mutual information between the potential variables and generative data for the improved channel modeling performance of the proposed framework. Simulation results demonstrate that
at a signal-to-noise ratio of 10 dB
the proposed CR-GAN framework outperforms current GAN-based models by reducing 24% of the normalized mean squared error.
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