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As an important piece of the multi-tier computing architecture for future wireless networks, over-the-air computation (OAC) enables efficient function computation in multiple-access edge computing, where a fusion center aims to compute a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-26 Yulin Shao , Deniz Gunduz , Soung Chang Liew

6G and beyond networks will merge communication and computation capabilities in order to adapt to changes. As they will consist of many sensors gathering information from its environment, new schemes for managing these large amounts of data…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-29 Marc Martinez-Gost , Ana Pérez-Neira

Federated edge learning is envisioned as the bedrock of enabling intelligence in next-generation wireless networks, but the limited spectral resources often constrain its scalability. In light of this challenge, a line of recent research…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Zihan Chen , Howard H. Yang , Tony Q. S. Quek

We propose a multi-sender, multi-receiver over-the-air computation (OAC) framework for wireless networked control systems (WNCS) with structural constraints. Our approach enables actuators to directly compute and apply control signals from…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-06 Seif Hussein , Chinwendu Enyioha , Carlo Fischione

Over-the-air computation (AirComp) becomes a promising approach for fast wireless data aggregation via exploiting the superposition property in a multiple access channel. To further overcome the unfavorable signal propagation conditions for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-05-01 Tao Jiang , Yuanming Shi

For future wireless networks, enormous numbers of interconnections are required, creating a disorganized topology and leading to a great challenge in data aggregation. Instead of collecting data individually, a more efficient technique,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-08-15 Fangzhou Wu , Li Chen , Nan Zhao , Yunfei Chen , F. Richard Yu , Guo Wei

In split machine learning (ML), different partitions of a neural network (NN) are executed by different computing nodes, requiring a large amount of communication cost. To ease communication burden, over-the-air computation (OAC) can…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-13 Yuzhi Yang , Zhaoyang Zhang , Yuqing Tian , Zhaohui Yang , Chongwen Huang , Caijun Zhong , Kai-Kit Wong

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

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

Wireless data aggregation (WDA), referring to aggregating data distributed at devices (e.g., sensors and smartphone), is a common operation in 5G-and-beyond machine-type communications to support Internet-of-Things (IoT), which lays the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-11-17 Guangxu Zhu , Jie Xu , Kaibin Huang , Shuguang Cui

Over-the-Air (OTA) computation is the problem of computing functions of distributed data without transmitting the entirety of the data to a central point. By avoiding such costly transmissions, OTA computation schemes can achieve a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-07-13 Matthias Frey , Igor Bjelakovic , Slawomir Stanczak

Over-the-air computation (OAC) has emerged as a key technique for efficient function computation over multiple-access channels (MACs) by exploiting the waveform superposition property of the wireless domain. While conventional OAC methods…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Saeed Razavikia , Deniz Gündüz , 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

This paper addresses the problem of Over-The-Air (OTA) computation in wireless networks which has the potential to realize huge efficiency gains for instance in training of distributed ML models. We provide non-asymptotic, theoretical…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-12-01 Matthias Frey , Igor Bjelakovic , Slawomir Stanczak

Massive numbers of nodes will be connected in future wireless networks. This brings great difficulty to collect a large amount of data. Instead of collecting the data individually, computation over multi-access channel (CoMAC) provides an…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-12-14 Fangzhou Wu , Li Chen , Nan Zhao , Yunfei Chen , F. Richard Yu , Guo Wei

We consider the problem of distributed computation of a target function over a multiple-access channel. If the target and channel functions are matched (i.e., compute the same function), significant performance gains can be obtained by…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-03-28 Nikhil Karamchandani , Urs Niesen , Suhas Diggavi

We consider the privacy problem of statistical estimation from distributed data, where users communicate to a central processor over a Gaussian multiple-access channel(MAC). To avoid the inevitable sacrifice of data utility for privacy in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-11-03 Wenhao Zhan

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

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

There is an ever-growing race between what novel applications demand from the infrastructure and what the continuous technological breakthroughs bring in. Especially after the proliferation of smart devices and diverse IoT requirements, we…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Baris Yamansavascilar , Atay Ozgovde , Cem Ersoy