TY - GEN
T1 - BeamCKMDiff
T2 - 2026 IEEE Conference on Computer Communications, INFOCOM 2026
AU - Zhao, Le
AU - Wang, Yining
AU - Wang, Xinyi
AU - Fei, Zesong
AU - Zeng, Yong
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2026 IEEE.
PY - 2026
Y1 - 2026
N2 - Channel knowledge map (CKM) is emerging as a critical enabler for environment-aware 6G networks, offering a site-specific database to significantly reduce pilot overhead. However, existing CKM construction methods typically rely on sparse sampling measurements and are restricted to either omni-directional maps or discrete codebooks, hindering the exploitation of beamforming gain. To address these limitations, we propose BeamCKMDiff, a generative framework for constructing high-fidelity CKMs conditioned on arbitrary continuous beamforming vectors without site-specific sampling. Specifically, we incorporate a novel adaptive layer normalization (adaLN) mechanism into the noise prediction network of the diffusion transformer (DiT). This mechanism injects continuous beam embeddings as global control parameters, effectively steering the generative process to capture the complex coupling between beam patterns and environmental geometries. Simulation results demonstrate that BeamCKMDiff significantly outperforms state-of-the-art baselines, achieving superior reconstruction accuracy in capturing main lobes and side lobes.
AB - Channel knowledge map (CKM) is emerging as a critical enabler for environment-aware 6G networks, offering a site-specific database to significantly reduce pilot overhead. However, existing CKM construction methods typically rely on sparse sampling measurements and are restricted to either omni-directional maps or discrete codebooks, hindering the exploitation of beamforming gain. To address these limitations, we propose BeamCKMDiff, a generative framework for constructing high-fidelity CKMs conditioned on arbitrary continuous beamforming vectors without site-specific sampling. Specifically, we incorporate a novel adaptive layer normalization (adaLN) mechanism into the noise prediction network of the diffusion transformer (DiT). This mechanism injects continuous beam embeddings as global control parameters, effectively steering the generative process to capture the complex coupling between beam patterns and environmental geometries. Simulation results demonstrate that BeamCKMDiff significantly outperforms state-of-the-art baselines, achieving superior reconstruction accuracy in capturing main lobes and side lobes.
KW - Beam-aware channel knowledge map (BeamCKM)
KW - diffusion transformer (DiT)
KW - generative AI
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/105044508606
U2 - 10.1109/INFOCOM59046.2026.11571730
DO - 10.1109/INFOCOM59046.2026.11571730
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:105044508606
T3 - Proceedings - IEEE INFOCOM
BT - INFOCOM 2026 - IEEE Conference on Computer Communications
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Y2 - 18 May 2026 through 21 May 2026
ER -