From Inference to Attack: AI-Driven BFI Forgery Against Unknown MU-MIMO Schedulers via TD-MoE
Compressed beamforming feedback information (BFI) reduces feedback overhead in multi-user multiple-input multiple-output (MU-MIMO) systems, but it also exposes the feedback signal that drives user scheduling and precoding. This paper studies whether an external observer can learn an unknown BFI-based scheduler and then use the learned behavior to guide feedback forgery in a protocol-informed physical-layer MU-MIMO simulation. We propose Trajectory Decoding Mixture-of-Experts (TD-MoE), an AI-driven scheduler-inference model that predicts selected user subsets through progressive decoding and latent expert routing, without scheduler-identity labels. We then design a full-feedback BFI forgery method that combines feedback-geometry-guided finite perturbation search with a causal feedback-only attack-or-abstain policy for selecting attack-worthy feedback instances. The attack perturbs scheduler decisions and the feedback-side regularized zero-forcing (regularized-ZF) geometry. In the mixed-five-scheduler inference benchmark, TD-MoE achieves an average intersection over union (IoU) of 0.740 and a Top-1 exact-match accuracy of 0.543, outperforming baselines without trajectory supervision or expert specialization. Under online full-feedback forgery, blind all-attack and random triggering produce limited average degradation, whereas feedback-side selective triggering substantially improves large-drop targeting. In particular, under the default rescheduled full-feedback setting, the learned attack-or-abstain policy achieves an attacked-only mean drop of 22.66%, a median drop of 16.95%, and attack success rates of 58.00% and 47.20% at the 10% and 20% degradation thresholds, denoted by ASR10 and ASR20, respectively, without using true-channel measurements, achieved-rate feedback, future samples, or test-set sorting during online attack selection. These results show that, within this protocol-informed physical-layer simulation setting, BFI-based resource scheduling can be inferred from compressed feedback and that scheduler confidentiality alone does not protect feedback-driven wireless control loops.
Authors
- Tao Guo (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8991-6757)
- Ying Wan (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2093-7023)
- Guanxiong Shen (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0331-4211)
- Xiaoyu Zhao
- Yusheng Chen
Institutions
- Southeast University (CN)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Electronics
- Published
- 2026-09-15
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics15184181
- Primary Topic
- Advanced MIMO Systems Optimization
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00