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BeamCKMDiff: Beam-Aware Channel Knowledge Map Construction via Diffusion Transformer

arXiv 2601.10207 ↗First posted 15 Jan 2026eess.SPcited by 3

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Abstract (arXiv)

Channel knowledge map (CKM) is emerging as a critical enabler for environment-aware 6G networks, offering a site-specific database to significantly reduce pilot overhead. However, existing CKM construction methods typically rely on sparse sampling measurements and are restricted to either omnidirectional maps or discrete codebooks, hindering the exploitation of beamforming gain. To address these limitations, we propose BeamCKMDiff, a generative framework for constructing high-fidelity CKMs conditioned on arbitrary continuous beamforming vectors without site-specific sampling. Specifically, we incorporate a novel adaptive layer normalization (adaLN) mechanism into the noise prediction network of the Diffusion Transformer (DiT). This mechanism injects continuous beam embeddings as {global control parameters}, effectively steering the generative process to capture the complex coupling between beam patterns and environmental geometries. Simulation results demonstrate that BeamCKMDiff significantly outperforms state-of-the-art baselines, achieving superior reconstruction accuracy in capturing main lobes and side lobes.

Key facts. Cited by 3 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026). Placed in Diffusion for compression and wireless, one of 14 directions in Diffusion models. Builds on 10 of its 20 references that are in the map. First posted on arXiv 15 Jan 2026.

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10 of 20 references.

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  1. 2024RadioDiff: An Effective Generative Diffusion Model for Sampling-Free Dynamic Radio Map Construction16 Aug

Other references · 9

  1. 2022Scalable Diffusion Models with Transformerscited by 6,054
  2. 2022Sionna: An Open-Source Library for Next-Generation Physical Layer Researchcited by 145
  3. 2019RadioUNet: Fast Radio Map Estimation with Convolutional Neural Networkscited by 127
  4. 2023A Tutorial on Environment-Aware Communications via Channel Knowledge Map for 6Gcited by 61
  5. 2022RME-GAN: A Learning Framework for Radio Map Estimation based on Conditional Generative Adversarial Networkcited by 50
  6. 2024RadioGAT: A Joint Model-based and Data-driven Framework for Multi-band Radiomap Reconstruction via Graph Attention Networkscited by 17
  7. 2025BeamCKM: A Framework of Channel Knowledge Map Construction for Multi-Antenna Systemscited by 6
  8. 2024IMNet: Interference-Aware Channel Knowledge Map Construction and Localizationcited by 5
  9. 2025Beamforming-Codebook-Aware Channel Knowledge Map Construction for Multi-Antenna Systemscited by 2

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  1. 2025CKMDiff: A Generative Diffusion Model for CKM Construction via Inverse Problems with Learned Priors
  2. 2025Channel Knowledge Map Construction via Physics-Inspired Diffusion Model Without Prior Observations
  3. 2026Channel Knowledge Map Construction via Guided Flow Matching
  4. 2026Active Learning for Channel Knowledge Map Construction via Bayesian Inference Diffusion Models
  5. 2026KDGen-BF: A Generative Site-Specific Multi-User Beamforming Approach ↗
  6. 2026RadioDiff-v2: Generative Angular Radio Maps for Multi-Beam Selection and Localization
  7. 2026Diffusion-Based Generative Priors for Efficient Beam Alignment in Directional Networks
  8. 2026Knowledge Distillation for mmWave Beam Prediction Using Sub-6 GHz Channels