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Context-Aware Deep Learning for Robust Channel Extrapolation in Fluid Antenna Systems

Signal Processing 2026-01-28 v4

Abstract

Fluid antenna systems (FAS) offer remarkable spatial flexibility but face significant challenges in acquiring high-resolution channel state information (CSI), leading to considerable overhead. To address this issue, we propose CANet, a robust deep learning model for channel extrapolation in FAS. CANet combines context-adaptive modeling with a cross-scale attention mechanism and is built on a ConvNeXt v2 backbone to improve extrapolation accuracy for unobserved antenna ports. To further enhance robustness, we introduce a novel spatial amplitude perturbation strategy, inspired by frequency-domain augmentation techniques in image processing. This motivates the incorporation of a Fourier-domain loss function, capturing frequency-domain consistency, alongside a spectral structure consistency loss that reinforces learning stability under perturbations. Our simulation results demonstrate that CANet outperforms benchmark models across a wide range of signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) levels.

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@article{arxiv.2507.04435,
  title  = {Context-Aware Deep Learning for Robust Channel Extrapolation in Fluid Antenna Systems},
  author = {Yanliang Jin and Runze Yu and Yuan Gao and Shengli Liu and Xiaoli Chu and Kai-Kit Wong and Chan-Byoung Chae},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2507.04435},
  year   = {2026}
}
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