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With the emergence of diverse mobile applications (such as augmented reality), the quality of experience of mobile users is greatly limited by their computation capacity and finite battery lifetime. Mobile edge computing (MEC) and wireless…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-02-13 Fuhui Zhou , Yongpeng Wu , Haijian Sun , Zheng Chu

Recently, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) assisted multi-access edge computing (MEC) systems emerged as a promising solution for providing computation services to mobile users outside of terrestrial infrastructure coverage. As each UAV…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-08-02 Yan Kyaw Tun , Tri Nguyen Dang , Kitae Kim , Madyan Anselwi , Walid Saad , Choong Seon Hong

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

Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-assisted mobile edge computing (MEC) system is a prominent concept, where a UAV equipped with a MEC server is deployed to serve a number of terminal devices (TDs) of Internet of Things (IoT) in a finite period.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-13 Tiankui Zhang , Yu Xu , Jonathan Loo , Dingcheng Yang , Lin Xiao

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

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

Over-the-air computation (AirComp) has been recognized as a low-latency solution for wireless sensor data fusion, where multiple sensors send their measurement signals to a receiver simultaneously for computation. Most existing work only…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Tianrui Qin , Wanchun Liu , Branka Vucetic , Yonghui Li

Over-the-air computation (AirComp) is a known technique in which wireless devices transmit values by analog amplitude modulation so that a function of these values is computed over the communication channel at a common receiver. The…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-21 Saeed Razavikia , Jose Mairton Barros da Silva , Carlo Fischione

For future Internet of Things (IoT)-based Big Data applications (e.g., smart cities/transportation), wireless data collection from ubiquitous massive smart sensors with limited spectrum bandwidth is very challenging. On the other hand, to…

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

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

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have attracted significant interest recently in wireless communication due to their high maneuverability, flexible deployment, and low cost. This paper studies a UAV-enabled wireless network where the UAV is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-04-10 Qingqing Wu , Yong Zeng , Rui Zhang

This letter investigates the transmit power and trajectory optimization problem for unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-aided networks. Different from majority of the existing studies with fixed communication infrastructure, a dynamic scenario is…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-01-17 Haichao Wang , Guochun Ren , Jin Chen , Guoru Ding , Yijun Yang

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

Over-the-air computation (AirComp) is emerging as a promising technology for wireless data aggregation. However, its performance is hampered by users with poor channel conditions. To mitigate such a performance bottleneck, this paper…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-12-01 Deyou Zhang , Ming Xiao , Mikael Skoglund , H. Vincent Poor

In this paper, we investigate a mobile edge computing (MEC) architecture with the assistance of an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). The UAV acts as a computing server to help the user equipment (UEs) compute their tasks as well as a relay to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-10 Xiaoyan Hu , Kai-Kit Wong , Kun Yang , Zhongbin Zheng

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 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

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

Mobile edge computing (MEC) provides computational services at the edge of networks by offloading tasks from user equipments (UEs). This letter employs an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) as the edge computing server to execute offloaded tasks…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-10-25 Yuwen Qian , Feifei Wang , Jun Li , Long Shi , Kui Cai , Feng Shu

Over-the-air computation (AirComp) has traditionally been built on the principle of pre-embedding computation into transmitted waveforms or on exploiting massive antenna arrays, often requiring the wireless multiple-access channel (MAC) to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Seyed Mohammad Azimi-Abarghouyi