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Over-the-air computation (AirComp) has emerged as a promising technology that enables simultaneous transmission and computation through wireless channels. In this paper, we investigate the networked AirComp in multiple clusters allowing…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-19 Xiao Tang , Huirong Xiao , Chao Shen , Li Sun , Qinghe Du , Dusit Niyato , Zhu Han

Over-the-air computation (AirComp) is a disruptive technique for fast wireless data aggregation in Internet of Things (IoT) networks via exploiting the waveform superposition property of multiple-access channels. However, the performance of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-12 Wenzhi Fang , Yuning Jiang , Yuanming Shi , Yong Zhou , Wei Chen , Khaled B. Letaief

This work is concerned with integrated sensing, communication, and computation (ISCC) in uplink orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) systems, wherein multiple devices perform target sensing and over-the-air computation…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-08 Biao Dong , Bin Cao , Qinyu Zhang

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

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

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

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

A novel over-the-air computation (AirComp) framework empowered by movable antennas (MAs) is proposed to significantly enhance computation accuracy. Within this framework, the joint optimization of transmit power control, antenna…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-04 Zhenqiao Cheng , Nanxi Li , Jianchi Zhu , Shan Yang , Chongjun Ouyang , Xingqi Zhang

Federated learning (FL) enables mobile devices to collaboratively learn a shared prediction model while keeping data locally. However, there are two major research challenges to practically deploy FL over mobile devices: (i) frequent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-16 Liang Li , Chenpei Huang , Dian Shi , Hao Wang , Xiangwei Zhou , Minglei Shu , Miao Pan

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

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

Many sensor applications are interested in computing a function over measurements (e.g., sum, average, max) as opposed to collecting all sensor data. Today, such data aggregation is done in a cluster-head. Sensor nodes transmit their values…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-12-08 Omid Abari , Hariharan Rahul , Dina Katabi

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

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

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

Over-the-air computation (AirComp) is a key enabler for distributed optimization, since it leverages analog waveform superposition to perform aggregation and thereby mitigates the communication bottleneck caused by iterative information…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-15 Mingyu Hu , Nan Liu , Wei Kang

In this paper, we study a federated learning system at the wireless edge that uses over-the-air computation (AirComp). In such a system, users transmit their messages over a multi-access channel concurrently to achieve fast model…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-08-04 Ruichen Jiang , Sheng Zhou

In a multi-agent system, agents can cooperatively learn a model from data by exchanging their estimated model parameters, without the need to exchange the locally available data used by the agents. This strategy, often called federated…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Halil Yigit Oksuz , Fabio Molinari , Henning Sprekeler , Jörg Raisch

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

The integration of intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) into over-the-air computation (AirComp) is an effective solution for reducing the computational mean squared error (MSE) via its high passive beamforming gain. Prior works on IRS aided…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-10 Guangji Chen , Jun Li , Qingqing Wu , Meng Hua , Kaitao Meng , Zhonghao Lyu