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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

In recent years, over-the-air aggregation has been widely considered in large-scale distributed learning, optimization, and sensing. In this paper, we propose the over-the-air federated policy gradient algorithm, where all agents…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-27 Huiwen Yang , Lingying Huang , Subhrakanti Dey , Ling Shi

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

The ideas of wireless network coding at the physical layer promise high throughput gains in wireless systems with relays and multi-way traffic flows. This gain can be ascribed to two principles: (1) joint transmission of multiple…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-11-30 Chan Dai Truyen Thai , Petar Popovski , Megumi Kaneko , Elisabeth de Carvalho

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

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

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

In recent years we have witnessed a move of the major industrial automation providers into the wireless domain. While most of these companies already offer wireless products for measurement and monitoring purposes, the ultimate goal is to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2011-02-04 Manuel Mazo , Paulo Tabuada

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

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

In this paper we propose and quantitatively evaluate three performance optimization methods that exploit the concept of communication-compute-control co-design by introducing awareness of communication and compute characteristics into the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-03-06 Sándor Rácz , Norbert Reider

Employing wireless systems with dual sensing and communications functionalities is becoming critical in next generation of wireless networks. In this paper, we propose a robust design for over-the-air federated edge learning (OTA-FEEL) that…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Saba Asaad , Ping Wang , Hina Tabassum

Over-the-air computation (AirComp) seamlessly integrates communication and computation by exploiting the waveform superposition property of multiple-access channels. Different from the existing works that focus on transceiver design of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-02 Min Fu , Yong Zhou , Yuanming Shi , Wei Chen , Rui Zhang

In this paper, we propose an inverse-kinematics controller for a class of multi-robot systems in the scenario of sampled communication. The goal is to make a group of robots perform trajectory tracking in a coordinated way when the sampling…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Enrica Rossi , Marco Tognon , Luca Ballotta , Ruggero Carli , Juan Cortés , Antonio Franchi , Luca Schenato

Over-the-air federated edge learning (Air-FEEL) is a communication-efficient solution for privacy-preserving distributed learning over wireless networks. Air-FEEL allows "one-shot" over-the-air aggregation of gradient/model-updates by…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-11-12 Xiaowen Cao , Guangxu Zhu , Jie Xu , Shuguang Cui

Enabled and driven by modern advances in wireless telecommunication and artificial intelligence, the convergence of communication, computing, and control is becoming inevitable in future industrial applications. Analytical and optimizing…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-07 Bin Han , Hans D. Schotten

We consider the problem of controlling a series of industrial systems, such as industrial robotics, in a factory environment over a shared wireless channel leveraging edge computing capabilities. The wireless control system model supports…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-09 Mark Eisen , Santosh Shukla , Dave Cavalcanti , Amit S. Baxi

Estimation problems in wireless sensor networks typically involve gathering and processing data from distributed sensors to infer the state of an environment at the fusion center. However, not all measurements contribute significantly to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-17 Chen Quan , Geethu Joseph , Nitin Jonathan Myers

We consider the problem of allocating radio resources over wireless communication links to control a series of independent wireless control systems. Low-latency transmissions are necessary in enabling time-sensitive control systems to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-11-02 Mark Eisen , Mohammad M. Rashid , Konstantinos Gatsis , Dave Cavalcanti , Nageen Himayat , Alejandro Ribeiro

We consider the problem of scheduling transmissions over low-latency wireless communication links to control various control systems. Low-latency requirements are critical in developing wireless technology for industrial control and Tactile…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-10-31 Mark Eisen , Mohammad M. Rashid , Dave Cavalcanti , Alejandro Ribeiro