Channel Knowledge Map Enabled Low-Complexity Dynamic Radio Environment Reconstruction

Abstract

Accurate and timely radio environment reconstruction is important but challenging under particularly dynamic transmitter configurations. The conventional methods such as compressed sensing (CS), Kriging method or U-Net typically require environment measurements and reconstruction overhead for radio environment updating as the transmitter locations or radiation patterns change. In this paper, we propose a novel channel knowledge map (CKM)-enabled dynamic radio environment reconstruction method for efficient radio map updating. Specifically, the recently proposed CKM can store reusable path-level propagation knowledge that is decoupled from the transmitter-side radiation characteristics. We can leverage CKM for lightweight forward radio map generation as the transmitter locations and radiation patterns are known, without requiring new target-map measurements. Simulation results show that the proposed method outperforms CS, Kriging, and U-Net in reconstruction accuracy and exhibits strong robustness performance under dynamic transmitter configurations, which demonstrates the potential of the proposed method for flexible and efficient radio environment reconstruction in dynamic wireless networks.