RadioNet: Transformer based Radio Map Prediction Model For Dense Urban Environments

Abstract: Radio Map Prediction (RMP), aiming at estimating coverage of radio wave, has been widely recognized as an enabling technology for improving radio spectrum efficiency. However, fast and reliable radio map prediction can be very challenging due to the complicated interaction between radio waves and the environment. In this paper, a novel Transformer based deep learning model termed as RadioNet is proposed for radio map prediction in urban scenarios. In addition, a novel Grid Embedding technique is proposed to substitute the original Position Embedding in Transformer to better anchor the relative position of the radiation source, destination and environment. The effectiveness of proposed method is verified on an urban radio wave propagation dataset. Compared with the SOTA model on RMP task, RadioNet reduces the validation loss by 27.3\%, improves the prediction reliability from 90.9\% to 98.9\%. The prediction speed is increased by 4 orders of magnitude, when compared with ray-tracing based method. We believe that the proposed method will be beneficial to high-efficiency wireless communication, real-time radio visualization, and even high-speed image rendering.