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This letter studies channel coding for over-the-air computation (AirComp). AirComp enables efficient wireless data aggregation, where computation accuracy is the key performance metric. However, this accuracy is sensitive to channel…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Shudi Weng , Ming Xiao , Mikael Skoglund

We seek to develop network algorithms for function computation in sensor networks. Specifically, we want dynamic joint aggregation, routing, and scheduling algorithms that have analytically provable performance benefits due to in-network…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2012-06-25 Siddhartha Banerjee , Piyush Gupta , Sanjay Shakkottai

Distributed data aggregation is an important task, allowing the decentralized determination of meaningful global properties, that can then be used to direct the execution of other applications. The resulting values result from the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2011-10-05 Paulo Jesus , Carlos Baquero , Paulo Sérgio Almeida

This invited paper presents some novel ideas on how to enhance the performance of consensus algorithms in distributed wireless sensor networks, when communication costs are considered. Of particular interest are consensus algorithms that…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2014-09-04 Steffen Limmer , Slawomir Stanczak , Mario Goldenbaum , Renato L. G. Cavalcante

The rapid advancement of artificial intelligence technologies has given rise to diversified intelligent services, which place unprecedented demands on massive connectivity and gigantic data aggregation. However, the scarce radio resources…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-11 Zhibin Wang , Yapeng Zhao , Yong Zhou , Yuanming Shi , Chunxiao Jiang , Khaled B. Letaief

This paper introduces a federated learning framework that enables over-the-air computation via digital communications, using a new joint source-channel coding scheme. Without relying on channel state information at devices, this scheme…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-11-07 Seyed Mohammad Azimi-Abarghouyi , Lav R. Varshney

In the era of the Internet of Things and massive connectivity, many engineering applications, such as sensor fusion and federated edge learning, rely on efficient data aggregation from geographically distributed users over wireless…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-02 David Nordlund , Luis Maßny , Antonia Wachter-Zeh , Erik G. Larsson , Zheng Chen

This paper introduces a new federated learning scheme that leverages over-the-air computation. A novel feature of this scheme is the proposal to employ adaptive weights during aggregation, a facet treated as predefined in other over-the-air…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-09-13 Seyed Mohammad Azimi-Abarghouyi , Leandros Tassiulas

Over-the-air federated edge learning (Air-FEEL) has emerged as a promising solution to support edge artificial intelligence (AI) in future beyond 5G (B5G) and 6G networks. In Air-FEEL, distributed edge devices use their local data to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-08-12 Xiaowen Cao , Zhonghao Lyu , Guangxu Zhu , Jie Xu , Lexi Xu , Shuguang Cui

Clustering is a standard approach for achieving efficient and scalable performance in wireless sensor networks. Traditionally, clustering algorithms aim at generating a number of disjoint clusters that satisfy some criteria. In this paper,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2013-04-09 Moustafa Youssef , Adel Youssef , Mohamed Younis

Future networks are expected to connect an enormous number of nodes wirelessly using wide-band transmission. This brings great challenges. To avoid collecting a large amount of data from the massive number of nodes, computation over…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-06-04 Fangzhou Wu , Li Chen , Nan Zhao , Yunfei Chen , F. Richard Yu , Guo Wei

Edge-device co-inference refers to deploying well-trained artificial intelligent (AI) models at the network edge under the cooperation of devices and edge servers for providing ambient intelligent services. For enhancing the utilization of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-08-15 Zeming Zhuang , Dingzhu Wen , Yuanming Shi , Guangxu Zhu , Sheng Wu , Dusit Niyato

Distributed optimization concerns the optimization of a common function in a distributed network, which finds a wide range of applications ranging from machine learning to vehicle platooning. Its key operation is to aggregate all local…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-04-15 Zhenyi Lin , Yi Gong , Kaibin Huang

In wireless sensor networks, various applications involve learning one or multiple functions of the measurements observed by sensors, rather than the measurements themselves. This paper focuses on type-threshold functions, e.g., the maximum…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-10-11 Chien-Yi Wang , Sang-Woon Jeon , Michael Gastpar

Edge-device co-inference, which concerns the cooperation between edge devices and an edge server for completing inference tasks over wireless networks, has been a promising technique for enabling various kinds of intelligent services at the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Xiang Jiao , Dingzhu Wen , Guangxu Zhu , Wei Jiang , Wu Luo , Yuanming Shi

Over-the-air computation (AirComp) has emerged as a promising technology that enables simultaneous transmission and computation through wireless channels. In this paper, we investigate the networked AirComp in multiple clusters allowing…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-19 Xiao Tang , Huirong Xiao , Chao Shen , Li Sun , Qinghe Du , Dusit Niyato , Zhu Han

Over-the-air computation (AirComp) is a well-known technique by which several wireless devices transmit by analog amplitude modulation to achieve a sum of their transmit signals at a common receiver. The underlying physical principle is the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-11 Saeed Razavikia , José Mairton Barros Da Silva Júnior , Carlo Fischione

Based on the impressive features that network coding and compressed sensing paradigms have separately brought, the idea of bringing them together in practice will result in major improvements and influence in the upcoming 5G networks. In…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-11-10 Maroua Taghouti , Anil Kumar Chorppath , Tobias Waurick , Frank H. P. Fitzek

Driven by the rapid growth of Internet of Things applications, tremendous data need to be collected by sensors and uploaded to the servers for further process. As a promising solution, mobile crowd sensing enables controllable sensing and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-02-28 Ziqin Zhou , Xiaoyang Li , Changsheng You , Kaibing Huang , Yi Gong

Cloud computing provides great benefits for applications hosted on the Web that also have special computational and storage requirements. This paper proposes an extensible and flexible architecture for integrating Wireless Sensor Networks…

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