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Facing the upcoming era of Internet-of-Things and connected intelligence, efficient information processing, computation, and communication design becomes a key challenge in large-scale intelligent systems. Recently, Over-the-Air (OtA)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-02-17 Zheng Chen , Erik G. Larsson , Carlo Fischione , Mikael Johansson , Yura Malitsky

Over-the-air computation (AirComp), as a data aggregation method that can improve network efficiency by exploiting the superposition characteristics of wireless channels, has received much attention recently. Meanwhile, the orthogonal time…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-03-27 Dongkai Zhou , Jing Guo , Siqiang Wang , Zhong Zheng , Zesong Fei , Weijie Yuan , Xinyi Wang

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

We propose an information-theoretic framework for analyzing control systems based on the close relationship of controllers to communication channels. A communication channel takes an input state and transforms it into an output state. A…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2007-05-23 Hugo Touchette , Seth Lloyd

Over-the-air aggregation has attracted widespread attention for its potential advantages in task-oriented applications, such as distributed sensing, learning, and consensus. In this paper, we develop a communication-efficient distributed…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-12 Huiwen Yang , Xiaomeng Chen , Lingying Huang , Subhrakanti Dey , Ling Shi

Federated learning (FL) is a promising technique that enables many edge devices to train a machine learning model collaboratively in wireless networks. By exploiting the superposition nature of wireless waveforms, over-the-air computation…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-26 Naifu Zhang , Meixia Tao

This paper introduces a distributed control method for multi-agent robotic systems employing Over the Air Consensus (OtA-Consensus). Designed for agents with decoupled single-integrator dynamics, this approach aims at efficient formation…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-13 Michael Epp , Fabio Molinari , Joerg 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 (AirComp) is a promising technology converging communication and computation over wireless networks, which can be particularly effective in model training, inference, and more emerging edge intelligence…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-08-30 Li Qiao , Zhen Gao , Mahdi Boloursaz Mashhadi , Deniz Gündüz

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

Closing feedback loops fast and over long distances is key to emerging applications; for example, robot motion control and swarm coordination require update intervals of tens of milliseconds. Low-power wireless technology is preferred for…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-02-20 Fabian Mager , Dominik Baumann , Romain Jacob , Lothar Thiele , Sebastian Trimpe , Marco Zimmerling

Wireless control systems replace traditional wired communication with wireless networks to exchange information between actuators, plants and sensors in a control system. The noise in wireless channels renders ideal control policies…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-05 Vinicius Lima , Mark Eisen , Konstantinos Gatsis , Alejandro Ribeiro

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

Low-altitude wireless networks (LAWN) require drones to follow specific trajectories controlled by ground base stations (GBSs). However, given complex low-altitude channel conditions and limited spectrum and power resources, sensing errors…

Wireless networked control systems for the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) require low latency communication techniques that are very reliable and resilient. In this paper, we investigate a coding-free control method to achieve…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Wanchun Liu , Petar Popovski , Yonghui Li , Branka Vucetic

Motivated by increasing computational capabilities of wireless devices, as well as unprecedented levels of user- and device-generated data, new distributed machine learning (ML) methods have emerged. In the wireless community, Federated…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-22 Henrik Hellström , Viktoria Fodor , Carlo Fischione

Deep neural networks provide reliable solutions for many classification and regression tasks; however, their application in real-time wireless systems with simple sensor networks is limited due to high energy consumption and significant…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Busra Tegin , Muhammad Atif Ali , Tolga M Duman

This article studies the joint problem of uplink-downlink scheduling and power allocation for controlling a large number of actuators that upload their states to remote controllers and download control actions over wireless links. To…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-01-29 Abanoub M. Girgis , Jihong Park , Mehdi Bennis , Mérouane Debbah

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

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