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Various wireless sensor network applications involve the computation of a pre-defined function of the measurements without the need for reconstructing each individual sensor reading. Widely-considered examples of such functions include the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-10-16 Mario Goldenbaum , Sławomir Stańczak

One basic operation of Internet-of-Things (IoT) networks is aggregating distributed sensing-data over wireless-channels for function-computation, called wireless-data-aggregation (WDA). Targeting dense sensors, a recently developed…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-12-07 Dingzhu Wen , Guangxu Zhu , Kaibin Huang

Over-the-air computation (AirComp) has recently emerged as a pivotal technique for communication-efficient federated learning (FL) in resource-constrained wireless networks. Though AirComp leverages the superposition property of multiple…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Jiacheng Yao , Wei Xu , Guangxu Zhu , Zhaohui Yang , Kaibin Huang , Dusit Niyato

In typical sensor networks, data collection and processing are separated. A sink collects data from all nodes sequentially, which is very time consuming. Over-the-air computation, as a new diagram of sensor networks, integrates data…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-05-11 Suhua Tang , Huarui Yin , Chao Zhang , Sadao Obana

This paper studies a hierarchical over-the-air computation (AirComp) network over a large area, in which multiple relays are exploited to facilitate data aggregation from massive WDs. We present a two-phase amplify-and-forward (AF) relaying…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-01-25 Feng Wang , Jie Xu , Vincent K. N. Lau , Shuguang Cui

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

Distributed optimization is ubiquitous in emerging applications, such as robust sensor network control, smart grid management, machine learning, resource slicing, and localization. However, the extensive data exchange among local and…

Over-the-air computation (AirComp) enables fast wireless data aggregation at the receiver through concurrent transmission by sensors in the application of Internet-of-Things (IoT). To further improve the performance of AirComp under…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-06-15 Wenhui Zhang , Jindan Xu , Wei Xu , Xiaohu You , Weijie Fu

Over-the-air computation (AirComp) enables fast data aggregation for edge intelligence applications. However the performance of AirComp can be severely degraded by channel misalignments. Pinching antenna systems (PASS) have recently emerged…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Zhonghao Lyu , Haoyun Li , Yulan Gao , Ming Xiao , H. Vincent Poor

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 studies an over-the-air federated edge learning (Air-FEEL) system with integrated sensing, communication, and computation (ISCC), in which one edge server coordinates multiple edge devices to wirelessly sense the objects and use…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-08-22 Dingzhu Wen , Sijing Xie , Xiaowen Cao , Yuanhao Cui , Jie Xu , Yuanming Shi , Shuguang Cui

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

We consider the problem of non-coherent over-the-air computation (AirComp), where $n$ devices carry high-dimensional data vectors $\mathbf{x}_i\in\mathbb{R}^d$ of sparsity $\lVert\mathbf{x}_i\rVert_0\leq k$ whose sum has to be computed at a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-22 Henrik Hellström , Jiwon Jeong , Ayfer Özgür , Viktoria Fodor , Carlo Fischione

Future networks are expected to connect an enormous number of nodes wirelessly using wide-band transmission. This brings great challenges. To avoid collecting a large amount of data from the massive number of nodes, computation over…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-06-04 Fangzhou Wu , Li Chen , Nan Zhao , Yunfei Chen , F. Richard Yu , Guo Wei

We propose a novel framework for integrated communication and computing (ICC) transceiver design in time-varying millimeter-wave (mmWave) channels. In particular, in order to cope with the dynamics of time-varying mmWave channels, the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-10 Joan Çollaku , Kuranage Roche Rayan Ranasinghe , Giuseppe Thadeu Freitas de Abreu , Takumi Takahashi

In the era of the Internet of Things and massive connectivity, many engineering applications, such as sensor fusion and federated edge learning, rely on efficient data aggregation from geographically distributed users over wireless…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-02 David Nordlund , Luis Maßny , Antonia Wachter-Zeh , Erik G. Larsson , Zheng Chen

In this paper, we investigate federated contextual linear bandit learning within a wireless system that comprises a server and multiple devices. Each device interacts with the environment, selects an action based on the received reward, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-29 Jiali Wang , Yuning Jiang , Xin Liu , Ting Wang , Yuanming Shi

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

With the explosive growth of data and wireless devices, federated learning (FL) over wireless medium has emerged as a promising technology for large-scale distributed intelligent systems. Yet, the urgent demand for ubiquitous intelligence…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-09 Chenxi Zhong , Huiyuan Yang , Xiaojun Yuan

A segmented waveguide-enabled pinching-antenna system (SWAN)-assisted over-the-air computation (AirComp) framework is proposed. Three transmission architectures, namely segment selection (SS), phase-shifter-free segment aggregation (SA),…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-05 Songnan Gu , Hao Jiang , Chongjun Ouyang , Dian Fan , Yuanwei Liu , Arumugam Nallanathan