RADIOLUNADIFF: Estimation of wireless network signal strength in Lunar Terrain
Abstract
This paper proposes a novel physics-informed deep learning architecture for predicting radio maps over lunar terrain. Our approach integrates a physics-based lunar terrain generator (which produces realistic topography informed by publicly available NASA data) with a ray-tracing engine to create a high-fidelity dataset of radio propagation scenarios. To train on this dataset, we introduce a triplet-UNet architecture, consisting of two standard UNets and a diffusion network, designed to model complex propagation effects. Experimental results demonstrate that our method outperforms existing deep learning approaches on our terrain dataset across various metrics. The project website is available at: https://radiolunadiff.github.io/.
Fields of Study & Subjects
Opportunistic and Delay-Tolerant Networks
Radio Astronomy Observations and Technology
Millimeter-Wave Propagation and Modeling
Publication details
- Journal / source
- ICASSP 2026 - 2026 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP)
- Publisher
- IEEE
- Pages
- 21231–21235
- Publication date
- 21 April 2026
- Language
- EN