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Sensing is envisioned as a key network function of the 6G mobile networks. Artificial intelligence (AI)-empowered sensing fuses features of multiple sensing views from devices distributed in edge networks for the edge server to perform…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-02-21 Zhiyan Liu , Qiao Lan , Anders E. Kalør , Petar Popovski , Kaibin Huang

Over-the-air computation (AirComp) leveraging the superposition property of wireless multiple-access channel (MAC), is a promising technique for effective data collection and computation of large-scale wireless sensor measurements in…

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

Over-the-air computation (AirComp) seamlessly integrates communication and computation by exploiting the waveform superposition property of multiple-access channels. Different from the existing works that focus on transceiver design of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-02 Min Fu , Yong Zhou , Yuanming Shi , Wei Chen , Rui Zhang

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

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

The development of 6G networks brings an increasing variety of data services, which motivates the hybrid computation paradigm that coordinates the over-the-air computation (AirComp) and edge computing for diverse and effective data…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-14 Yudan Jiang , Xiao Tang , Jinxin Liu , Qinghe Du , Dusit Niyato , Zhu Han

Over-the-air computation (AirComp) enables efficient wireless data aggregation in sensor networks by simultaneous processing of calculation and communication. This paper proposes a novel precoder design for AirComp that incorporates…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-05 Ayano Nakai-Kasai , Tadashi Wadayama

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

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

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

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…

This paper presents the first orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing(OFDM)-based digital over-the-air computation (AirComp) system for wireless federated edge learning, where multiple edge devices transmit model data simultaneously…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-07-06 Lizhao You , Xinbo Zhao , Rui Cao , Yulin Shao , Liqun Fu

The vision of 6G networks aims to enable edge inference by leveraging ubiquitously deployed artificial intelligence (AI) models, facilitating intelligent environmental perception for a wide range of applications. A critical operation in…

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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

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

Over-the-air computation (AirComp) is considered as a communication-efficient solution for data aggregation and distributed learning by exploiting the superposition properties of wireless multi-access channels. However, AirComp is…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-04 Chen Chen , Emil Björnson , Carlo Fischione

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

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

Over-the-air computation (AirComp) has been recognized as a promising technique in Internet-of-Things (IoT) networks for fast data aggregation from a large number of wireless devices. However, as the number of devices becomes large, the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-09 Xiongfei Zhai , Xihan Chen , Jie Xu , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng

Over-the-air computation (AirComp) is an efficient solution to enable federated learning on wireless channels. AirComp assumes that the wireless channels from different devices can be controlled, e.g., via transmitter-side phase…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-21 Daesung Yu , Seok-Hwan Park , Osvaldo Simeone , Shlomo Shamai