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Distributed computing frameworks such as MapReduce and Spark are often used to process large-scale data computing jobs. In wireless scenarios, exchanging data among distributed nodes would seriously suffer from the communication bottleneck…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-10-25 Youlong Wu , Zhenhao Huang , Kai Yuan , Shuai Ma , Yue Bi

Optical wireless communication (OWC) is a promising technology anticipated to play a key role in the next-generation network of networks, especially as a complementary technology to traditional radio frequency communications, for enhancing…

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

In this paper, achievable information rates (AIR) for fiber optical communications are discussed. It is shown that AIRs such as the mutual information and generalized mutual information are good design metrics for coded optical systems. The…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-02-20 Alex Alvarado , Tobias Fehenberger , Bin Chen , Frans M. J. Willems

Recently, a camera or an image sensor receiver based optical wireless communications (OWC) techniques have attracted particular interest in areas such as the internet of things, indoor localization, motion capture, and intelligent…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-10-17 Nasir Saeed , Shuaishuai Guo , Ki-Hong Park , Tareq Y. Al-Naffouri , Mohamed-Slim Alouini

We investigate a quantum integrated communication and computation (QICC) scheme for a single-mode bosonic multiple-access channel (MAC) with coherent-state signalling. By exploiting the natural superposition property of the quantum MAC, a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Ioannis Krikidis

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

Coded distributed computing (CDC) is a new technique proposed with the purpose of decreasing the intense data exchange required for parallelizing distributed computing systems. Under the famous MapReduce paradigm, this coded approach has…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-06-28 Federico Brunero , Petros Elia

Advances in the Internet of Things are revolutionizing data acquisition, enhancing artificial intelligence and quality of service. Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) provide an efficient data-gathering solution across varied environments. This…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-04-14 Priyavrat Dev Sharma , Ibrahim Sorkhoh , Muthucumaru Maheswaran

This paper addresses some aspects of the general problem of information transfer and distributed function computation in wireless networks. Many applications of wireless technology foresee networks of autonomous devices executing tasks that…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-09-09 Steffen Limmer , Slawomir Stanczak

Compute-and-forward is a promising strategy to tackle interference and obtain high rates between the transmitting users in a wireless network. However, the quality of the wireless channels between the users substantially limits the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-06-25 Mahdi Jafari Siavoshani , Seyed Pooya Shariatpanahi , Naeimeh Omidvar

We propose a new method to protect Over-The-Air (OTA) computation schemes against passive eavesdropping. Our method uses a friendly jammer whose signal is -- contrary to common intuition -- stronger at the legitimate receiver than it is at…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Matthias Frey , Igor Bjelaković , Sławomir Stańczak

Mobile-edge computing (MEC) and wireless power transfer are technologies that can assist in the implementation of next generation wireless networks, which will deploy a large number of computational and energy limited devices. In this…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-08-18 Constantinos Psomas , Ioannis Krikidis

Computation codes in network information theory are designed for the scenarios where the decoder is not interested in recovering the information sources themselves, but only a function thereof. K\"orner and Marton showed for distributed…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-07-28 Jingge Zhu , Sung Hoon Lim , Michael Gastpar

With the explosive increment of computation requirements, the multi-access edge computing (MEC) paradigm appears as an effective mechanism. Besides, as for the Internet of Things (IoT) in disasters or remote areas requiring MEC services,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-02-15 Ziye Jia , Qihui Wu , Chao Dong , Chau Yuen , Zhu Han

The growing need for low-latency access to computing resources has motivated the introduction of edge computing, where resources are strategically placed at the access networks. Unfortunately, edge computing infrastructures like fogs and…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-07-26 Richard Olaniyan , Olamilekan Fadahunsi , Muthucumaru Maheswaran , Mohamed Faten Zhani

This article explores the use of network-connected unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) communications as a compelling solution to achieve high-rate information transmission and support ultra-reliable UAV remote command and control. We first…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-06-13 Haichao Wang , Jinlong Wang , Jin Chen , Yuping Gong , Guoru Ding

Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-enabled communication networks are promising in the fifth and beyond wireless communication systems. In this paper, we shed light on three UAV-enabled mobile edge computing (MEC) architectures. Those…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-10-24 Fuhui Zhou , Rose Qingyang Hu , Zan Li , Yuhao Wang

New high-data-rate multimedia services and applications are evolving continuously and exponentially increasing the demand for wireless capacity of fifth-generation (5G) and beyond. The existing radio frequency (RF) communication spectrum is…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-10-08 Mostafa Zaman Chowdhury , Md. Tanvir Hossan , Amirul Islam , Yeong Min Jang

The aim of this paper is to propose a computation offloading strategy for mobile edge computing. We exploit the concept of call graph, which models a generic computer program as a set of procedures related to each other through a weighted…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-02-04 Paolo Di Lorenzo , Sergio Barbarossa , Stefania Sardellitti