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This paper investigates the problem of model aggregation in federated learning systems aided by multiple reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs). The effective integration of computation and communication is achieved by over-the-air…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-07-09 Wanli Ni , Yuanwei Liu , Zhaohui Yang , Hui Tian , Xuemin Shen

Over-the-air computation (OAC) leverages the physical superposition property of wireless multiple access channels (MACs) to compute functions while communication occurs, enabling scalable and low-latency processing in distributed networks.…

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

In this paper, we compare problems of cluster formation and cluster-head selection between different protocols for data aggregation and transmission. We focus on two aspects of the problem: (i) how to guess number of clusters required to…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-11-15 M. S. Fareed , N. Javaid , M. Akbar , S. Rehman , U. Qasim , Z. A. Khan

A wireless sensor network is composed of many sensor nodes that have been given out in a specific zone and each of them had an ability of collecting information from the environment and sending collected data to the sink. The most…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-09-12 Ali Sedighimanesh , Mohammad Sedighimanesh , Javad Baqeri

Over-the-air computation (AirComp), as a data aggregation method that can improve network efficiency by exploiting the superposition characteristics of wireless channels, has received much attention recently. Meanwhile, the orthogonal time…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-03-27 Dongkai Zhou , Jing Guo , Siqiang Wang , Zhong Zheng , Zesong Fei , Weijie Yuan , Xinyi Wang

In this paper, we investigate federated contextual linear bandit learning within a wireless system that comprises a server and multiple devices. Each device interacts with the environment, selects an action based on the received reward, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-29 Jiali Wang , Yuning Jiang , Xin Liu , Ting Wang , Yuanming Shi

In order to meet the growing mobile data demand, future wireless networks will be equipped with a multitude of access points (APs). Besides the important implications for the energy consumption, the trend towards densification requires the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-04-20 Giovanni Geraci , Matthias Wildemeersch , Tony Q. S. Quek

Deep neural networks provide reliable solutions for many classification and regression tasks; however, their application in real-time wireless systems with simple sensor networks is limited due to high energy consumption and significant…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Busra Tegin , Muhammad Atif Ali , Tolga M Duman

We consider collaborative inference at the wireless edge, where each client's model is trained independently on its local dataset. Clients are queried in parallel to make an accurate decision collaboratively. In addition to maximizing the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-15 Selim F. Yilmaz , Burak Hasircioglu , Li Qiao , Deniz Gunduz

Consensus is a common method for computing a function of the data distributed among the nodes of a network. Of particular interest is distributed average consensus, whereby the nodes iteratively compute the sample average of the data stored…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-12-06 Ryan Pilgrim

This paper studies the problem of distributed computation over a network of wireless sensors. While this problem applies to many emerging applications, to keep our discussion concrete we will focus on sensor networks used for structural…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2015-05-19 Apoorva Jindal , Mingyan Liu

Motivated by increasing computational capabilities of wireless devices, as well as unprecedented levels of user- and device-generated data, new distributed machine learning (ML) methods have emerged. In the wireless community, Federated…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-22 Henrik Hellström , Viktoria Fodor , Carlo Fischione

A central problem in analog wireless sensor networks is to design the gain or phase-shifts of the sensor nodes (i.e. the relaying configuration) in order to achieve an accurate estimation of some parameter of interest at a fusion center, or…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-08-05 Shahin Khobahi , Mojtaba Soltanalian , Feng Jiang , A. Lee Swindlehurst

The last decades have seen a surge of interests in distributed computing thanks to advances in clustered computing and big data technology. Existing distributed algorithms typically assume {\it all the data are already in one place}, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-07 Donghui Yan , Yingjie Wang , Jin Wang , Guodong Wu , Honggang Wang

Ever-increasing amounts of data and requirements to process them in real time lead to more and more analytics platforms and software systems being designed according to the concept of stream processing. A common area of application is the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-03-05 Sören Henning , Wilhelm Hasselbring

Integrated sensing, computation, and communication (ISCC) has been recently considered as a promising technique for beyond 5G systems. In ISCC systems, the competition for communication and computation resources between sensing tasks for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-06-07 Yinghui He , Guanding Yu , Yunlong Cai , Haiyan Luo

Over-the-air computation (OAC) is a promising wireless communication method for aggregating data from many devices in dense wireless networks. The fundamental idea of OAC is to exploit signal superposition to compute functions of multiple…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-29 Henrik Hellström , Saeed Razavikia , Viktoria Fodor , Carlo Fischione

As an important piece of the multi-tier computing architecture for future wireless networks, over-the-air computation (OAC) enables efficient function computation in multiple-access edge computing, where a fusion center aims to compute a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-26 Yulin Shao , Deniz Gunduz , Soung Chang Liew

The predominate traffic patterns in a wireless sensor network are many-to-one and one-to-many communication. Hence, the performance of wireless sensor networks is characterized by the rate at which data can be disseminated from or…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-01-15 Richard J. Barton , Rong Zheng

In sensor networks, it is not always practical to set up a fusion center. Therefore, there is need for fully decentralized clustering algorithms. Decentralized clustering algorithms should minimize the amount of data exchanged between…

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