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In this paper, we investigate a key problem of Narrowband-Internet of Things (NB-IoT) in the context of 5G with Mobile Edge Computing (MEC). We address the challenge that IoT devices may have different priorities when demanding bandwidth…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-05-21 Hongde Wu , Zhengyong Chen , Noel E. O'Connor , Mingming Liu

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

Federated learning (FL) with over-the-air computation can efficiently utilize the communication bandwidth but is susceptible to analog aggregation error. Excluding those devices with weak channel conditions can reduce the aggregation error,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-03-08 Faeze Moradi Kalarde , Min Dong , Ben Liang , Yahia A. Eldemerdash Ahmed , Ho Ting Cheng

Future intelligent systems will consist of a massive number of battery-less sensors, where quick and accurate aggregation of sensor data will be of paramount importance. Over-the-air computation (AirComp) is a promising technology wherein…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-01-14 Amin Farajzadeh , Ozgur Ercetin , Halim Yanikomeroglu

Traditional simultaneous wireless information and power transfer (SWIPT) with power splitting assumes perfect channel state information (CSI), which is difficult to obtain especially in the massive multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-08-21 Xihan Chen , Hei Victor Cheng , An Liu , Kaiming Shen , Min-Jian Zhao

The next-generation wireless networks are envisioned to support large-scale sensing and distributed machine learning, thereby enabling new intelligent mobile applications. One common network operation will be the aggregation of distributed…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-01-13 Qiao Lan , Hyo Seung Kang , Kaibin Huang

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

Modern IEEE 802.11 (Wi-Fi) networks extensively rely on multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) to significantly improve throughput. To correctly beamform MIMO transmissions, the access point needs to frequently acquire a beamforming matrix…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-10-16 Niloofar Bahadori , Yoshitomo Matsubara , Marco Levorato , Francesco Restuccia

The emerging concept of Over-the-Air (OtA) computation has shown great potential for achieving resource-efficient data aggregation across large wireless networks. However, current research in this area has been limited to the standard…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-15 Zheng Chen , Yura Malitsky

The Internet of Things (IoT) brings connectivity to a massive number of devices that demand energy-efficient solutions to deal with limited battery capacities, uplink-dominant traffic, and channel impairments. In this work, we explore the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-02-08 Osmel Martínez Rosabal , Onel Alcaraz López , Dian Echevarría Pérez , Mohammad Shehab , Henrique Hilleshein , Hirley Alves

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

We propose a novel flexible and scalable framework to design integrated communication and computing (ICC) -- a.k.a. over-the-air computing (AirComp)-- receivers. To elaborate, while related literature so far has generally focused either on…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-12 Kuranage Roche Rayan Ranasinghe , Kengo Ando , Giuseppe Thadeu Freitas de Abreu

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

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 robust beamforming problem in multiple-input single-output (MISO) downlink networks of simultaneous wireless information and power transfer (SWIPT) is studied in this paper. Adopting the time switching fashion to perform energy…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-03-22 Yinglei Teng , Wanxin Zhao , Mei Yan , Yong Zhang , Mei Song

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

This paper introduces a noise-tolerant computing method for over-the-air computation (AirComp) aimed at weighted averaging, which is critical in various Internet of Things (IoT) applications such as environmental monitoring. Traditional…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-23 Koya Sato , Koji Ishibashi

This paper concerns the coordinate multi-cell beamforming design for integrated sensing and communications (ISAC). In particular, we assume that each base station (BS) has massive antennas. The optimization objective is to maximize a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-03-31 Yannan Chen , Yi Feng , Xiaoyang Li , Licheng Zhao , Kaiming Shen

In this paper, we investigate the issue of integrated sensing, computation and communication (SCC) in beyond fifth-generation (B5G) cellular internet of things (IoT) networks. According to the characteristics of B5G cellular IoT, a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-09-17 Qiao Qi , Xiaoming Chen , Caijun Zhong , Zhaoyang Zhang

Over-the-air computation (AirComp) shows great promise to support fast data fusion in Internet-of-Things (IoT) networks. AirComp typically computes desired functions of distributed sensing data by exploiting superposed data transmission in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-11-13 Jialin Dong , Yuanming Shi , Zhi Ding