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To support the unprecedented growth of the Internet of Things (IoT) applications, tremendous data need to be collected by the IoT devices and delivered to the server for further computation. By utilizing the same signals for both radar…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-02-23 Xiaoyang Li , Fan Liu , Ziqin Zhou , Guangxu Zhu , Shuai Wang , Kaibin Huang , Yi Gong

Over-the-air computation (AirComp) has been recognized as a promising technique in Internet-of-Things (IoT) networks for fast data aggregation from a large number of wireless devices. However, as the number of devices becomes large, the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-09 Xiongfei Zhai , Xihan Chen , Jie Xu , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng

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 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 (AirComp) is a disruptive technique for fast wireless data aggregation in Internet of Things (IoT) networks via exploiting the waveform superposition property of multiple-access channels. However, the performance of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-12 Wenzhi Fang , Yuning Jiang , Yuanming Shi , Yong Zhou , Wei Chen , Khaled B. Letaief

This paper studies the over-the-air computation (AirComp) in an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) system with imperfect channel state information (CSI), in which multiple single-antenna wireless devices (WDs) simultaneously…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-12 Yilong Chen , Huijun Xing , Jie Xu , Lexi Xu , Shuguang Cui

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

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

We investigate fast data aggregation via over-the-air computation (AirComp) over wireless networks. In this scenario, an access point (AP) with multiple antennas aims to recover the arithmetic mean of sensory data from multiple wireless…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-04-23 Hongbin Zhu , Hua Qian

This correspondence studies the wireless powered over-the-air computation (AirComp) for achieving sustainable wireless data aggregation (WDA) by integrating AirComp and wireless power transfer (WPT) into a joint design. In particular, we…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-18 Siyao Zhang , Xinmin Li , Yin Long , Jie Xu , Shuguang Cui

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

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

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

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

Over-the-air computation (AirComp) enables fast wireless data aggregation at the receiver through concurrent transmission by sensors in the application of Internet-of-Things (IoT). To further improve the performance of AirComp under…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-06-15 Wenhui Zhang , Jindan Xu , Wei Xu , Xiaohu You , Weijie Fu

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) 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

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

Departing from the classic paradigm of data-centric designs, the 6G networks for supporting edge AI features task-oriented techniques that focus on effective and efficient execution of AI task. Targeting end-to-end system performance, such…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-11-03 Dingzhu Wen , Xiang Jiao , Peixi Liu , Guangxu Zhu , Yuanming Shi , Kaibin Huang

Sensing is envisioned as a key network function of the 6G mobile networks. Artificial intelligence (AI)-empowered sensing fuses features of multiple sensing views from devices distributed in edge networks for the edge server to perform…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-02-21 Zhiyan Liu , Qiao Lan , Anders E. Kalør , Petar Popovski , Kaibin Huang