DRF Codes: Deep SNR-Robust Feedback Codes

We present a new deep-neural-network (DNN) based error correction code for fading channels with output feedback, called deep SNR-robust feedback (DRF) code. At the encoder, parity symbols are generated by a long short term memory (LSTM) network based on the message as well as the past forward channel outputs observed by the transmitter in a noisy fashion. The decoder uses a bi-directional LSTM architecture along with a signal to noise ratio (SNR)-aware attention NN to decode the message. The proposed code overcomes two major shortcomings of the previously proposed DNN-based codes over channels with passive output feedback: (i) the SNR-aware attention mechanism at the decoder enables reliable application of the same trained NN over a wide range of SNR values; (ii) curriculum training with batch-size scheduling is used to speed up and stabilize training while improving the SNR-robustness of the resulting code. We show that the DRF codes significantly outperform state-of-the-art in terms of both the SNR-robustness and the error rate in additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN) channel with feedback. In fading channels with perfect phase compensation at the receiver, DRF codes learn to efficiently exploit knowledge of the instantaneous fading amplitude (which is available to the encoder through feedback) to reduce the overhead and complexity associated with channel estimation at the decoder. Finally, we show the effectiveness of DRF codes in multicast channels with feedback, where linear feedback codes are known to be strictly suboptimal.

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