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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

To facilitate the development of Internet of Things (IoT) services, tremendous IoT devices are deployed in the wireless network to collect and pass data to the server for further processing. Aiming at improving the data sensing and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-11-08 Xiaoyang Li , Yi Gong , Kaibin Huang , Zhisheng Niu

Recent research has shown that unsourced massive access (UMA) is naturally well-suited for over-the-air computation (AirComp), as it does not require knowledge of each individual signal, as demonstrated by the massive digital AirComp…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-23 Li Qiao , Yueqing Wang , Hanjun Jiang , Xinhua Liu , Yixuan Xing , Yongpeng Wu , Zhen Gao

This paper investigates over-the-air computation (AirComp) in the context of multiple-access time-varying multipath channels. We focus on a scenario where devices with high mobility transmit their sensing data to a fusion center (FC) for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Xinyu Huang , Henrik Hellstrom , Carlo Fischione

Many sensor applications are interested in computing a function over measurements (e.g., sum, average, max) as opposed to collecting all sensor data. Today, such data aggregation is done in a cluster-head. Sensor nodes transmit their values…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-12-08 Omid Abari , Hariharan Rahul , Dina Katabi

Over-the-air computation (AirComp) is a key enabler for distributed optimization, since it leverages analog waveform superposition to perform aggregation and thereby mitigates the communication bottleneck caused by iterative information…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-15 Mingyu Hu , Nan Liu , Wei Kang

Movable antenna (MA) has emerged as a promising technology for improving the performance of wireless communication systems, which enables local movement of the antennas to create more favorable channel conditions. In this letter, we advance…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-16 Nianzu Li , Peiran Wu , Boyu Ning , Lipeng Zhu , Weidong Mei

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…

A novel over-the-air computation (AirComp) framework empowered by movable antennas (MAs) is proposed to significantly enhance computation accuracy. Within this framework, the joint optimization of transmit power control, antenna…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-04 Zhenqiao Cheng , Nanxi Li , Jianchi Zhu , Shan Yang , Chongjun Ouyang , Xingqi Zhang

Wireless federated learning (FL) relies on efficient uplink communications to aggregate model updates across distributed edge devices. Over-the-air computation (a.k.a. AirComp) has emerged as a promising approach for addressing the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Yujia Mu , Xizixiang Wei , Cong Shen

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 (OAC) harnesses the natural superposition of wireless signals to compute aggregate functions during transmission, thereby collapsing communication and computation into a single step and significantly reducing…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-24 Saeed Razavikia , Carlo Fischione

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

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

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

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

Departing from the classic paradigm of data-centric designs, the 6G networks for supporting edge AI features task-oriented techniques that focus on effective and efficient execution of AI task. Targeting end-to-end system performance, such…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-11-03 Dingzhu Wen , Xiang Jiao , Peixi Liu , Guangxu Zhu , Yuanming Shi , Kaibin Huang

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

In this paper, we study a federated learning system at the wireless edge that uses over-the-air computation (AirComp). In such a system, users transmit their messages over a multi-access channel concurrently to achieve fast model…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-08-04 Ruichen Jiang , Sheng Zhou

In this paper, we consider the ChannelComp framework, where multiple transmitters aim to compute a function of their values at a common receiver while using digital modulations over a multiple access channel. ChannelComp provides a general…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-14 Xiaojing Yan , Saeed Razavikia , Carlo Fischione