CHANNEL PREDICTION FOR MIMO SYSTEMS BASED ON RECIPROCITY

An example embodiment may involve receiving, at a node of a radio access network, input signals on a plurality of wireless channels, wherein uplink channels in the plurality of wireless channels are respectively associated with downlink channels in the plurality of wireless channels; determining up-link characteristics for the uplink channels; providing, to a trained neural network, the uplink characteristics, wherein the trained neural network was iteratively trained, with a training data set of recorded uplink characteristics and recorded downlink characteristics, to form predictions of the recorded downlink characteristics from the recorded uplink characteristics, wherein the trained neural network includes an encoder that maps the recorded uplink characteristics to latent vector representations, and a decoder that maps the latent vector representations to the predictions; receiving, from the trained neural network, a prediction of downlink characteristics for the downlink channels; and transmitting, on the downlink channels, output signals based on the prediction.