Sensors (Dec 2022)

Towards Outdoor Electromagnetic Field Exposure Mapping Generation Using Conditional GANs

  • Mohammed Mallik,
  • Angesom Ataklity Tesfay,
  • Benjamin Allaert,
  • Redha Kassi,
  • Esteban Egea-Lopez,
  • Jose-Maria Molina-Garcia-Pardo,
  • Joe Wiart,
  • Davy P. Gaillot,
  • Laurent Clavier

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3390/s22249643
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 22, no. 24
p. 9643

Abstract

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With the ongoing fifth-generation cellular network (5G) deployment, electromagnetic field exposure has become a critical concern. However, measurements are scarce, and accurate electromagnetic field reconstruction in a geographic region remains challenging. This work proposes a conditional generative adversarial network to address this issue. The main objective is to reconstruct the electromagnetic field exposure map accurately according to the environment’s topology from a few sensors located in an outdoor urban environment. The model is trained to learn and estimate the propagation characteristics of the electromagnetic field according to the topology of a given environment. In addition, the conditional generative adversarial network-based electromagnetic field mapping is compared with simple kriging. Results show that the proposed method produces accurate estimates and is a promising solution for exposure map reconstruction.

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