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In this study, we propose a digital over-the-air computation (OAC) scheme for achieving continuous-valued (analog) aggregation for federated edge learning (FEEL). We show that the average of a set of real-valued parameters can be calculated…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-09-27 Alphan Sahin

In this letter, we introduce over-the-air computation into the communication design of federated multi-task learning (FMTL), and propose an over-the-air federated multi-task learning (OA-FMTL) framework, where multiple learning tasks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Haoming Ma , Xiaojun Yuan , Dian Fan , Zhi Ding , Xin Wang , Jun Fang

One of the main challenges facing Internet of Things (IoT) networks is managing interference caused by the large number of devices communicating simultaneously, particularly in multi-cluster networks where multiple devices simultaneously…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-07 Lucas Sempéré , Yue Bi , Yue Wu , Pengwenlong Gu , Selma Boumerdassi

Objective-The main purpose of this paper is to construct a data accuracy model for the maximal set of sensor nodes that sense a point event and forms a cluster with fully connected network between them. We determine the minimal set of…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2011-01-12 Jyotirmoy Karjee , H. S Jamadagni

In the Internet-of-Things (IoT) era, efficient functionality integration is essential to address the growing demands of communication, computation, and sensing. Signal-level integrated sensing, computing, and communication (Sig-ISCC) is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-30 Paul Zheng , Yao Zhu , Xiaopeng Yuan , Yulin Hu , Anke Schmeink

Consensus clustering fuses diverse basic partitions (i.e., clustering results obtained from conventional clustering methods) into an integrated one, which has attracted increasing attention in both academic and industrial areas due to its…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-04 Hongfu Liu , Zhiqiang Tao , Zhengming Ding

Over-the-air computation (AirComp) seamlessly integrates communication and computation by exploiting the waveform superposition property of multiple-access channels. Different from the existing works that focus on transceiver design of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-02 Min Fu , Yong Zhou , Yuanming Shi , Wei Chen , Rui Zhang

In a centralized or cloud radio access network, certain portions of the digital baseband processing of a group of several radio access points are executed at a central data center. Centralizing the processing improves the flexibility,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2015-08-25 Peter Rost , Andreas Maeder , Matthew C. Valenti , Salvatore Talarico

A new machine learning (ML) technique termed as federated learning (FL) aims to preserve data at the edge devices and to only exchange ML model parameters in the learning process. FL not only reduces the communication needs but also helps…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-09 Xiang Ma , Haijian Sun , Qun Wang , Rose Qingyang Hu

The classical problem in network coding theory considers communication over multicast networks. Multiple transmitters send independent messages to multiple receivers which decode the same set of messages. In this work, computation over…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-02-18 Changho Suh , Naveen Goela , Michael Gastpar

Federated learning (FL) has emerged as an appealing machine learning approach to deal with massive raw data generated at multiple mobile devices, {which needs to aggregate the training model parameter of every mobile device at one base…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Xuming An , Rongfei Fan , Shiyuan Zuo , Han Hu , Hai Jiang , Ning Zhang

We consider the problem of information aggregation in sensor networks, where one is interested in computing a function of the sensor measurements. We allow for block processing and study in-network function computation in directed graphs…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-19 Hemant Kowshik , P. R. Kumar

As the amount of data collected for crowdsensing applications increases rapidly due to improved sensing capabilities and the increasing number of Internet of Things (IoT) devices, the cloud server is no longer able to handle the large-scale…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-12-10 Jer Shyuan Ng , Wei Yang Bryan Lim , Sahil Garg , Zehui Xiong , Dusit Niyato , Mohsen Guizani , Cyril Leung

This paper considers over-the-air federated learning (OTA-FL). OTA-FL exploits the superposition property of the wireless medium, and performs model aggregation over the air for free. Thus, it can greatly reduce the communication cost…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-13 Haibo Yang , Peiwen Qiu , Jia Liu , Aylin Yener

One of the most important problems in wireless sensor network is to develop a routing protocol that has energy efficiency. Since the power of the sensor Nodes are limited, conserving energy and network life is a critical issue in wireless…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2011-09-30 Dana Anderson

Over-the-air computation (OAC) harnesses the natural superposition of wireless signals to compute aggregate functions during transmission, thereby collapsing communication and computation into a single step and significantly reducing…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-24 Saeed Razavikia , Carlo Fischione

We propose a novel quadrature over-the-air computing (Q-OTAC) framework that enables the simultaneously computation of two independent functions and/or data stream within a single transmission. In contrast to conventional OTAC schemes,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-05 Hyeon Seok Rou , Kengo Ando , Giuseppe Thadeu Freitas de Abreu , David González G

Distributed aggregation allows the derivation of a given global aggregate property from many individual local values in nodes of an interconnected network system. Simple aggregates such as minima/maxima, counts, sums and averages have been…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2012-04-09 Miguel Borges , Paulo Jesus , Carlos Baquero , Paulo Sérgio Almeida

6G mobile networks aim to realize ubiquitous intelligence at the network edge via distributed learning, sensing, and data analytics. Their common operation is to aggregate high-dimensional data, which causes a communication bottleneck that…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-04-11 Jiawei Liu , Yi Gong , Kaibin Huang

In this article, we put forward the mobile crowd sensing paradigm based on ubiquitous wearable devices carried by human users. The key challenge for mass user involvement into prospective urban crowd sending applications, such as monitoring…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-11-21 Olga Galinina , Konstantin Mikhaylov , Kaibin Huang , Sergey Andreev , Yevgeni Koucheryavy