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Over-the-air computation (AirComp) is a known technique in which wireless devices transmit values by analog amplitude modulation so that a function of these values is computed over the communication channel at a common receiver. The…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-21 Saeed Razavikia , Jose Mairton Barros da Silva , Carlo Fischione

Over-the-air computation (AirComp) has emerged as a promising technology for fast wireless data aggregation by harnessing the superposition property of wireless multiple-access channels. This paper investigates a fluid antenna (FA)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-02-14 Deyou Zhang , Sicong Ye , Ming Xiao , Kezhi Wang , Marco Di Renzo , Mikael Skoglund

Over-the-air computation (AirComp) is emerging as a promising technology for wireless data aggregation. However, its performance is hampered by users with poor channel conditions. To mitigate such a performance bottleneck, this paper…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-12-01 Deyou Zhang , Ming Xiao , Mikael Skoglund , H. Vincent Poor

Over-the-air computation (AirComp) enables efficient wireless data aggregation in sensor networks by simultaneous processing of calculation and communication. This paper proposes a novel precoder design for AirComp that incorporates…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-05 Ayano Nakai-Kasai , Tadashi Wadayama

Over-the-air computation (AirComp) is an efficient solution to enable federated learning on wireless channels. AirComp assumes that the wireless channels from different devices can be controlled, e.g., via transmitter-side phase…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-21 Daesung Yu , Seok-Hwan Park , Osvaldo Simeone , Shlomo Shamai

In future Internet-of-Things networks, sensors or even access points can be mounted on ground/aerial vehicles for smart-city surveillance or environment monitoring. To support the high-mobility sensing with low network latency, a technique…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-07-13 Guangxu Zhu , Kaibin Huang

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

This work is concerned with integrated sensing, communication, and computation (ISCC) in uplink orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) systems, wherein multiple devices perform target sensing and over-the-air computation…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-08 Biao Dong , Bin Cao , Qinyu Zhang

Over-the-air computation (AirComp) is a promising technology converging communication and computation over wireless networks, which can be particularly effective in model training, inference, and more emerging edge intelligence…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-08-30 Li Qiao , Zhen Gao , Mahdi Boloursaz Mashhadi , Deniz Gündüz

A novel over-the-air computation (AirComp) framework empowered by movable antennas (MAs) is proposed to significantly enhance computation accuracy. Within this framework, the joint optimization of transmit power control, antenna…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-04 Zhenqiao Cheng , Nanxi Li , Jianchi Zhu , Shan Yang , Chongjun Ouyang , Xingqi Zhang

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

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

The integration of intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) into over-the-air computation (AirComp) is an effective solution for reducing the computational mean squared error (MSE) via its high passive beamforming gain. Prior works on IRS aided…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-10 Guangji Chen , Jun Li , Qingqing Wu , Meng Hua , Kaitao Meng , Zhonghao Lyu

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

This paper investigates a fluid antenna (FA) array-enhanced over-the-air computation (AirComp) system in the presence of hardware impairments (HWIs), exploiting the new degrees of freedom offered by reconfigurable antenna positioning. To…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-08 Zilong Li , Jianxin Dai , Zhaohui Yang , Zhaoyang Zhang , Kai-Kit Wong , Zhiyang Li , Shunkuan Cheng

IoT systems typically involve separate data collection and processing, and the former faces the scalability issue when the number of nodes increases. For some tasks, only the result of data fusion is needed. Then, the whole process can be…

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

This paper considers a multi-cell AirComp network and investigates the optimal power control policies over multiple cells to regulate the effect of inter-cell interference. First, we consider the scenario of centralized multi-cell power…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-07-24 Xiaowen Cao , Guangxu Zhu , Jie Xu , Kaibin Huang

Over-the-air computation (AirComp) has recently been recognized as a promising scheme for a fusion center to achieve fast distributed data aggregation in wireless networks via exploiting the superposition property of multiple-access…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-23 Lukuan Xing , Yong Zhou , Yuanming Shi

Communication and computation are traditionally treated as separate entities, allowing for individual optimizations. However, many applications focus on local information's functionality rather than the information itself. For such cases,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Saeed Razavikia , José Mairton Barros Da Silva Júnior , Carlo Fischione

We consider the problem of non-coherent over-the-air computation (AirComp), where $n$ devices carry high-dimensional data vectors $\mathbf{x}_i\in\mathbb{R}^d$ of sparsity $\lVert\mathbf{x}_i\rVert_0\leq k$ whose sum has to be computed at a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-22 Henrik Hellström , Jiwon Jeong , Ayfer Özgür , Viktoria Fodor , Carlo Fischione