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Over-the-air (OTA) computation has recently emerged as a communication-efficient Federated Learning (FL) paradigm to train machine learning models over wireless networks. However, its performance is limited by the device with the worst SNR,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-05 Muhammad Faraz Ul Abrar , Nicolò Michelusi

To address the limitations of traditional over-the-air federated learning (OA-FL) such as limited server coverage and low resource utilization, we propose an OA-FL in MIMO cloud radio access network (MIMO Cloud-RAN) framework, where edge…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-18 Haoming Ma , Xiaojun Yuan , Zhi Ding

Distributed machine learning (ML) over wireless networks hinges on accurate channel state information (CSI) and efficient exchange of high-dimensional model updates. These demands are governed by channel coherence time and bandwidth, which…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Mehdi Karbalayghareh , David J. Love , Christopher G. Brinton

Over-the-air federated learning (OTA-FL) exploits the inherent superposition property of wireless channels to integrate the communication and model aggregation. Though a naturally promising framework for wireless federated learning, it…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-09-20 Jiayu Mao , Aylin Yener

The stringent requirements for low-latency and privacy of the emerging high-stake applications with intelligent devices such as drones and smart vehicles make the cloud computing inapplicable in these scenarios. Instead, edge machine…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-19 Kai Yang , Tao Jiang , Yuanming Shi , Zhi Ding

We consider federated edge learning (FEEL) among mobile devices that harvest the required energy from their surroundings, and share their updates with the parameter server (PS) through a shared wireless channel. In particular, we consider…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-05-26 Ozan Aygün , Mohammad Kazemi , Deniz Gündüz , Tolga M. Duman

For distributed learning among collaborative users, this paper develops and analyzes a communication-efficient scheme for federated learning (FL) over the air, which incorporates 1-bit compressive sensing (CS) into analog aggregation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-31 Xin Fan , Yue Wang , Yan Huo , Zhi Tian

Federated edge learning (FEEL) is a popular framework for model training at an edge server using data distributed at edge devices (e.g., smart-phones and sensors) without compromising their privacy. In the FEEL framework, edge devices…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-12-03 Guangxu Zhu , Yuqing Du , Deniz Gunduz , Kaibin Huang

Over-the-Air Federated Learning (AirFL) is an emerging paradigm that tightly integrates wireless signal processing and distributed machine learning to enable scalable AI at the network edge. By leveraging the superposition property of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-04 Seyed Mohammad Azimi-Abarghouyi , Carlo Fischione , Kaibin Huang

With huge amounts of data explosively increasing in the mobile edge, over-the-air federated learning (OA-FL) emerges as a promising technique to reduce communication costs and privacy leak risks. However, when devices in a relatively large…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-26 Xiangyu Zhong , Xiaojun Yuan , Huiyuan Yang , Chenxi Zhong

In this paper, we consider decentralized federated learning (FL) over wireless networks, where over-the-air computation (AirComp) is adopted to facilitate the local model consensus in a device-to-device (D2D) communication manner. However,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-06-16 Yandong Shi , Yong Zhou , Yuanming Shi

Federated learning (FL) with over-the-air computation efficiently utilizes the communication resources, but it can still experience significant latency when each device transmits a large number of model parameters to the server. This paper…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Chong Zhang , Min Dong , Ben Liang , Ali Afana , Yahia Ahmed

Fluid antenna (FA) technology has recently emerged as an effective means of exploiting spatial diversity through position-domain reconfigurability. This paper investigates the integration of FA into over-the-air federated learning (OTA-FL)…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-11 Mohsen Ahmadzadeh , Saeid Pakravan , Wessam Ajib , Ming Zeng , Ghosheh Abed Hodtani , Ji Wang

This paper introduces a new federated learning scheme that leverages over-the-air computation. A novel feature of this scheme is the proposal to employ adaptive weights during aggregation, a facet treated as predefined in other over-the-air…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-09-13 Seyed Mohammad Azimi-Abarghouyi , Leandros Tassiulas

The rapid proliferation and growth of artificial intelligence (AI) has led to the development of federated learning (FL). FL allows wireless devices (WDs) to cooperatively learn by sharing only local model parameters, without needing to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-22 Zihao Hu , Jia Yan , Ying-Jun Angela Zhang , Jun Zhang , Khaled B. Letaief

In this paper, we consider federated learning (FL) over a noisy fading multiple access channel (MAC), where an edge server aggregates the local models transmitted by multiple end devices through over-the-air computation (AirComp). To…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-11-16 Shuhao Xia , Jingyang Zhu , Yuhan Yang , Yong Zhou , Yuanming Shi , Wei Chen

This paper presents the first broadband digital over-the-air computation (AirComp) system for phase asynchronous OFDM-based federated edge learning systems. Existing analog AirComp systems often assume perfect phase alignment via channel…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-11-23 Xinbo Zhao , Lizhao You , Rui Cao , Yulin Shao , Liqun Fu

Over-the-air federated learning (OTA-FL) improves communication efficiency by exploiting the superposition property of wireless channels, but this same property also creates a critical security vulnerability: the parameter server (PS)…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Xiaoyan Ma , Seohyun Lee , Taejoon Kim , Christopher G. Brinton

Over-the-air Computation (AirComp) has been demonstrated as an effective transmission scheme to boost the efficiency of federated edge learning (FEEL). However, existing FEEL systems with AirComp scheme often employ traditional synchronous…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-31 Zhoubin Kou , Yun Ji , Xiaoxiong Zhong , Sheng Zhang

The communication bottleneck of over-the-air federated learning (OA-FL) lies in uploading the gradients of local learning models. In this paper, we study the reduction of the communication overhead in the gradients uploading by using the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-11 Chenxi Zhong , Xiaojun Yuan