Blind Interactive Learning Of Modulation Schemes: Multi-Agent Cooperation Without Co-Design

IEEE ACCESS(2020)

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We examine the problem of learning to cooperate in the context of wireless communication. In our setting, two agents must learn modulation schemes that enable them to communicate across a power-constrained additive white Gaussian noise channel. We investigate whether learning is possible under different levels of information sharing between distributed agents which are not necessarily co-designed. We employ the & x201C;Echo & x201D; protocol, a & x201C;blind & x201D; interactive learning protocol where an agent hears, understands, and repeats (echoes) back the message received from another agent, simultaneously training itself to communicate. To capture the idea of cooperation between & x201C;not necessarily co-designed & x201D; agents we use two different populations of function approximators & x2014; neural networks and polynomials. We also include interactions between learning agents and non-learning agents with fixed modulation protocols such as QPSK and 16QAM. We verify the universality of the Echo learning approach, showing it succeeds independent of the inner workings of the agents. In addition to matching the communication expectations of others, we show that two learning agents can collaboratively invent a successful communication approach from independent random initializations. We complement our simulations with an implementation of the Echo protocol in software-defined radios. To explore the continuum of co-design, we study how learning is impacted by different levels of information sharing between agents, including sharing training symbols, losses, and full gradients. We find that co-design (increased information sharing) accelerates learning. Learning higher order modulation schemes is a more difficult task, and the beneficial effect of co-design becomes more pronounced as the task becomes harder.
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Wireless communication, protocols, cognitive radio, cooperative communication, digital modulation, machine learning, reinforcement learning, multi-agent learning, echo protocol
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