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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

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

We propose a novel resource-efficient over-the-air(OTA) computation framework to address the huge fronthaul computational and control overhead requirements in cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) networks. We show that…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Zakir Hussain Shaik , Sai Subramanyam Thoota , Emil Björnson , Erik G. Larsson

In federated learning (FL), heterogeneity among the local dataset distributions of clients can result in unsatisfactory performance for some, leading to an unfair model. To address this challenge, we propose an over-the-air fair federated…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-08 Shayan Mohajer Hamidi , Ali Bereyhi , Saba Asaad , H. Vincent Poor

In a multi-agent system, agents can cooperatively learn a model from data by exchanging their estimated model parameters, without the need to exchange the locally available data used by the agents. This strategy, often called federated…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Halil Yigit Oksuz , Fabio Molinari , Henning Sprekeler , Jörg Raisch

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

Over-the-Air Computation (OAC) enables efficient data aggregation in large-scale distributed systems by exploiting the superposition property of wireless multiple-access channels. In contrast to most existing studies on OAC assuming exact…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-28 Martin Dahl , Zheng Chen , Erik G. Larsson

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

Various wireless sensor network applications involve the computation of a pre-defined function of the measurements without the need for reconstructing each individual sensor reading. Widely-considered examples of such functions include the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-10-16 Mario Goldenbaum , Sławomir Stańczak

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 (OAC) has emerged as a key technique for efficient function computation over multiple-access channels (MACs) by exploiting the waveform superposition property of the wireless domain. While conventional OAC methods…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Saeed Razavikia , Deniz Gündüz , Carlo Fischione

We consider problems where agents in a network seek a common quantity, measured independently and periodically by each agent through a local time-varying process. Numerous solvers addressing such problems have been developed in the past,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-03-08 Navneet Agrawal , Renato L. G. Cavalcante , Sławomir Stańczak

In this paper, we develop an orthogonal-frequency-division-multiplexing (OFDM)-based over-the-air (OTA) aggregation solution for wireless federated learning (FL). In particular, the local gradients in massive IoT devices are modulated by an…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-28 Huayan Guo , Yifan Zhu , Haoyu Ma , Vincent K. N. Lau , Kaibin Huang , Xiaofan Li , Huabin Nong , Mingyu Zhou

Federated edge learning (FEEL) enables wireless devices to collaboratively train a centralised model without sharing raw data, but repeated uplink transmission of model updates makes communication the dominant bottleneck. Over-the-air (OTA)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-24 Antonio Tarizzo , Mohammad Kazemi , Deniz Gündüz

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

Fluid antenna (FA) technology has recently emerged as an effective means of exploiting spatial diversity through position-domain reconfigurability. This paper investigates the integration of FA into over-the-air federated learning (OTA-FL)…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-11 Mohsen Ahmadzadeh , Saeid Pakravan , Wessam Ajib , Ming Zeng , Ghosheh Abed Hodtani , Ji Wang

This letter studies an uplink over-the-air computation (AirComp) framework in which multiple user equipments are equipped with fluid-antenna (FA) arrays and operate over spatially correlated fading channels. By explicitly modeling channel…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-06 Saeid Pakravan , Mohsen Ahmadzadeh , Wessam Ajib , Ghosheh Abed Hodtani , Ming Zeng

Optical Wireless Communication (OWC) has gained significant attention due to its high-speed data transmission and throughput. Optical wireless channels are often assumed to be flat, but we evaluate frequency selective channels to consider…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-21 Dianxin Luan , John Thompson

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

Over-the-air computation has the potential to increase the communication-efficiency of data-dependent distributed wireless systems, but is vulnerable to eavesdropping. We consider over-the-air computation over block-fading additive white…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-12-23 Luis Maßny , Antonia Wachter-Zeh