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Thus, the downlink signals of one base station will travel a long distance via the atmospheric duct and interfere with the uplink signals of another base station. This scenario is known as atmospheric duct interference (ADI). ADI could be mitigated using digital signal processing, machine learning, and hybrid approaches. To address this challenge, we explore machine learning and deep learning techniques for ADI prediction and mitigation in Time-Division Long-Term Evolution (TD-LTE) networks. Our results show that the Random Forest algorithm achieves the highest prediction accuracy, while a convolutional neural network demonstrates the best mitigation performance with accuracy. 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