Benchmarking Machine Learning Techniques for THz Channel Estimation Problems

Abstract

Terahertz communication is one of the most promising wireless communication technologies for 6G generation and beyond. For THz systems to be practically adopted, channel estimation is one of the key issues. We consider the problem of channel modeling and estimation with deterministic channel propagation and the related physical characteristics of THz bands, and benchmark various machine learning algorithms to estimate THz channel, including neural networks (NN), logistic regression (LR), and projected gradient ascent (PGA). Numerical results show that PGA algorithm yields the most promising performance at SNR=0 dB with NMSE of -12.8 dB.