VisionReli6G: Enhancing 6G Wireless Reliability with CNN-LSTM for LOS Blockage Prediction

The mmWave and sub-THz signals rely on Line-of-Sight (LOS) links for higher throughput. Blocking these links can lead to a sudden drop in the received SNR and increase the latency of the communication network. We propose a CNN-LSTM pipeline designed to enhance the reliability of 6G wireless networks by predicting LOS blockages in advance using a sequential stream of RGB images. The proposed solution’s efficiency is demonstrated by comparing key performance indicators between the baseline (YOLO-GRU) and the developed pipelines (ResNet-LSTM, ResNeXt-LSTM). The results are validated on the first real-world 6G communication dataset, DeepSense 6G, which contains diverse data modalities captured at different locations and times of the day. The Top-1 accuracy for future 1, 5, and 10 instances of scenario 22 yields an average increase of 10.63% and 12.60% with the Resnet-LSTM and ResNeXt-LSTM pipelines respectively compared to the baseline YOLO-GRU model. The F1 score of scenarios 17-22 for future-1 time window prediction increased by an average of 7.58% and 8.13% for both pipelines respectively.