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Wireless data aggregation (WDA), referring to aggregating data distributed at devices (e.g., sensors and smartphone), is a common operation in 5G-and-beyond machine-type communications to support Internet-of-Things (IoT), which lays the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-11-17 Guangxu Zhu , Jie Xu , Kaibin Huang , Shuguang Cui

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 investigates the effect of imperfect channel state information (CSI) on the over-the-air computation (AirComp) system, in which multiple wireless devices (WDs) send individual messages to one access point (AP) for distributed…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-03-01 Yilong Chen , Guangxu Zhu , Jie Xu

Due to its high communication efficiency, over-the-air computation (AirComp) has been expected to carry out various computing tasks in the next-generation wireless networks. However, up to now, most applications of AirComp are explored in…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-14 Xin Xie , Cunqinq Hua , Jianan Hong , Yuejun Wei

Distributed optimization concerns the optimization of a common function in a distributed network, which finds a wide range of applications ranging from machine learning to vehicle platooning. Its key operation is to aggregate all local…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-04-15 Zhenyi Lin , Yi Gong , Kaibin Huang

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

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

In this paper, we consider fast wireless data aggregation via over-the-air computation (AirComp) in Internet of Things (IoT) networks, where an access point (AP) with multiple antennas aim to recover the arithmetic mean of sensory data from…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-12 Wenzhi Fang , Yinan Zou , Hongbin Zhu , Yuanming Shi , Yong Zhou

Recent research has shown that unsourced massive access (UMA) is naturally well-suited for over-the-air computation (AirComp), as it does not require knowledge of each individual signal, as demonstrated by the massive digital AirComp…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-23 Li Qiao , Yueqing Wang , Hanjun Jiang , Xinhua Liu , Yixuan Xing , Yongpeng Wu , Zhen Gao

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

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

Over-the-air computation (AirComp) enables fast data aggregation for edge intelligence applications. However the performance of AirComp can be severely degraded by channel misalignments. Pinching antenna systems (PASS) have recently emerged…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Zhonghao Lyu , Haoyun Li , Yulan Gao , Ming Xiao , H. Vincent Poor

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

In the era of the Internet of Things and massive connectivity, many engineering applications, such as sensor fusion and federated edge learning, rely on efficient data aggregation from geographically distributed users over wireless…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-02 David Nordlund , Luis Maßny , Antonia Wachter-Zeh , Erik G. Larsson , Zheng Chen

Communication and computation are often viewed as separate tasks. This approach is very effective from the perspective of engineering as isolated optimizations can be performed. However, for many computation-oriented applications, the main…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-04-04 Alphan Sahin , Rui Yang

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

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

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

Recently, over-the-air computation (AirComp) leverages the superposition property of wireless channels to enable efficient function computation over a multiple access channel (MAC). However, existing digital AirComp methods either rely on…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-26 Xiaojing Yan , Saeed Razavikia , 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