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Lightweight CFR-Based Modulation Adaptation in a Real-Time MIMO-OFDM SDR Testbed
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Conventional link adaptation typically relies on scalar link-quality indicators such as signal-to-noise ratio (SNR), while richer channel state information (CSI) can improve adaptation at the cost of higher processing complexity. This paper investigates a compact alternative for modulation selection in a real-time multiple-input multiple-output orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (MIMO-OFDM) system using channel frequency response (CFR) magnitude descriptors. A dataset of 87,817 over-the-air (OTA) samples is collected using a USRP-based testbed, with CFR measurements extracted at the base station (BS) from received uplink pilots. Decision tree (DT), random forest (RF), and k-nearest neighbours (KNN) classifiers are evaluated using BS-side SNR, CFR features, and their combination. SNR-only classifiers achieve 35%-42% test accuracy, whereas CFR-only features achieve 73.6%, 81.4%, and 80.0% for DT, RF, and KNN, respectively. CFR-based performance is maintained near the 10% BLER reliability thresholds, with RF reaching 82.8%. A depth-7 DT with 123 leaves is further integrated into the LabVIEW C Node for real-time inference. The results show that compact BS-side CFR descriptors provide more discriminative information than the available scalar BS-side SNR while remaining suitable for lightweight SDR implementation.
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