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Over-the-air computation (AirComp) has traditionally been built on the principle of pre-embedding computation into transmitted waveforms or on exploiting massive antenna arrays, often requiring the wireless multiple-access channel (MAC) to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Seyed Mohammad Azimi-Abarghouyi

To overcome inherent limitations of analog signals in over-the-air computation (AirComp), this letter proposes a two's complement-based coding scheme for the AirComp implementation with compatible digital modulations. Specifically,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-01 Zhixu Wang , Jiacheng Yao , Wei Xu , Wei Shi , Kaibin Huang

This paper presents the first orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing(OFDM)-based digital over-the-air computation (AirComp) system for wireless federated edge learning, where multiple edge devices transmit model data simultaneously…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-07-06 Lizhao You , Xinbo Zhao , Rui Cao , Yulin Shao , Liqun Fu

Ultra-fast wireless data aggregation (WDA) of distributed data has emerged as a critical design challenge in the ultra-densely deployed cellular internet of things network (CITN) due to limited spectral resources. Over-the-air computing…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-10-11 Ying Dong , Haonan Hu , Qiaoshou Liu , Tingwei Lv , Qianbin Chen , Jie Zhang

This paper studies an over-the-air federated edge learning (Air-FEEL) system with integrated sensing, communication, and computation (ISCC), in which one edge server coordinates multiple edge devices to wirelessly sense the objects and use…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-08-22 Dingzhu Wen , Sijing Xie , Xiaowen Cao , Yuanhao Cui , Jie Xu , Yuanming Shi , Shuguang Cui

Over-the-air computation (AirComp) provides a promising way to support ultrafast aggregation of distributed data. However, its performance cannot be guaranteed in long-distance transmission due to the distortion induced by the channel…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-26 Min Fu , Yong Zhou , Yuanming Shi , Ting Wang , Wei Chen

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

Over-the-air computation (AirComp) is a key enabler for distributed optimization, since it leverages analog waveform superposition to perform aggregation and thereby mitigates the communication bottleneck caused by iterative information…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-15 Mingyu Hu , Nan Liu , Wei Kang

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

This paper investigates over-the-air computation (AirComp) over multiple-access time-varying channels, where devices with high mobility transmit their sensing data to a fusion center (FC) for averaging. To combat the Doppler shift induced…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Xinyu Huang , Henrik Hellström , Carlo Fischione

This paper investigates covert data transmission within a multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) over-the-air computation (AirComp) network, where sensors transmit data to the access point (AP) while guaranteeing covertness to the warden…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-18 Junteng Yao , Tuo Wu , Ming Jin , Cunhua Pan , Quanzhong Li , Jinhong Yuan

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

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

Over the air computation (AirComp) is a promising technique that addresses big data collection and fast wireless data aggregation. However, in a network where wireless communication and AirComp coexist, mutual interference becomes a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-08 Xunqiang Lan , Xiao Tang , Ruonan Zhang , Bin Li , Yichen Wang , Dusit Niyato , Zhu Han

One basic operation of Internet-of-Things (IoT) networks is aggregating distributed sensing-data over wireless-channels for function-computation, called wireless-data-aggregation (WDA). Targeting dense sensors, a recently developed…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-12-07 Dingzhu Wen , Guangxu Zhu , Kaibin Huang

This paper investigates over-the-air computation (AirComp) in the context of multiple-access time-varying multipath channels. We focus on a scenario where devices with high mobility transmit their sensing data to a fusion center (FC) for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Xinyu Huang , Henrik Hellstrom , Carlo Fischione

This paper presents the first broadband digital over-the-air computation (AirComp) system for phase asynchronous OFDM-based federated edge learning systems. Existing analog AirComp systems often assume perfect phase alignment via channel…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-11-23 Xinbo Zhao , Lizhao You , Rui Cao , Yulin Shao , Liqun Fu

In typical sensor networks, data collection and processing are separated. A sink collects data from all nodes sequentially, which is very time consuming. Over-the-air computation, as a new diagram of sensor networks, integrates data…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-05-11 Suhua Tang , Huarui Yin , Chao Zhang , Sadao Obana

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

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