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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

The 6G mobile networks feature two new usage scenarios -- distributed sensing and edge artificial intelligence (AI). Their natural integration, termed integrated sensing and edge AI (ISEA), promises to create a platform that enables…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Zhiyan Liu , Qiao Lan , Kaibin Huang

Analog machine-learning hardware platforms promise greater speed and energy efficiency than their digital counterparts. Specifically, over-the-air analog computation allows offloading computation to the wireless propagation through…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-09 Mengbing Liu , Jiancheng An , Chongwen Huang , Chau Yuen

The sixth-generation (6G) wireless communication network is expected to integrate the terrestrial, aerial, and maritime communications into a robust network which would be more reliable, fast, and can support a massive number of devices…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-19 Muhammad Waseem Akhtar , Syed Ali Hassan , Rizwan Ghaffar , Haejoon Jung , Sahil Garg , M. Shamim Hossain

Over-the-air computation (AirComp) leverages the signal-superposition characteristic of wireless multiple access channels to perform mathematical computations. Initially introduced to enhance communication reliability in interference…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-05 Ana Pérez-Neira , Marc Martinez-Gost , Alphan Şahin , Saeed Razavikia , Carlo Fischione , Kaibin Huang

This paper studies the over-the-air computation (AirComp) in an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) system with imperfect channel state information (CSI), in which multiple single-antenna wireless devices (WDs) simultaneously…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-12 Yilong Chen , Huijun Xing , Jie Xu , Lexi Xu , Shuguang Cui

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

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

Satellite computing has emerged as a promising technology for next-generation wireless networks. This innovative technology provides data processing capabilities, which facilitates the widespread implementation of artificial intelligence…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Shifeng Peng , Xuefeng Hou , Zhishu Shen , Qiushi Zheng , Jiong Jin , Atsushi Tagami , Jingling Yuan

Over-the-air (OTA) federated learning (FL) has been well recognized as a scalable paradigm that exploits the waveform superposition of the wireless multiple-access channel to aggregate model updates in a single use. Existing OTA-FL designs…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-16 Muhammad Faraz Ul Abrar , Nicolò Michelusi

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

The roll-out of various emerging wireless services has triggered the need for the sixth-generation (6G) wireless networks to provide functions of target sensing, intelligent computing and information communication over the same radio…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-07-11 Qiao Qi , Xiaoming Chen , Ata Khalili , Caijun Zhong , Zhaoyang Zhang , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng

We propose a novel resource efficient analog over-the-air (OTA) computation framework to address the demanding requirements of the uplink (UL) fronthaul between the access points (APs) and the central processing unit (CPU) in cell-free…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-11-15 Zakir Hussain Shaik , Sai Subramanyam Thoota , Emil Björnson , Erik G. Larsson

This paper introduces a federated learning framework that enables over-the-air computation via digital communications, using a new joint source-channel coding scheme. Without relying on channel state information at devices, this scheme…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-11-07 Seyed Mohammad Azimi-Abarghouyi , Lav R. Varshney

In this study, a digital over-the-air computation (OAC) scheme for achieving continuous-valued gradient aggregation is proposed. It is shown that the average of a set of real-valued parameters can be calculated approximately by using the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-23 Alphan Sahin , Rui Yang

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

Wireless devices are expected to provide a wide range of AI services in 6G networks. The increasing computing capabilities of wireless devices and the surge of wireless data motivate the use of privacy-preserving federated learning (FL). In…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-31 Chen Chen , Emil Björnson , Carlo Fischione

Over-the-Air Federated Learning (OTA-FL) is a privacy-preserving distributed learning mechanism, by aggregating updates in the electromagnetic channel rather than at the server. A critical research gap in existing OTA-FL research is the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-14 Jinsheng Yuan , Zhuangkun Wei , Weisi Guo

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…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-01-19 Yang Fu , Peng Qin , Liming Chen , Xianchao Zhang , Yifei Wang

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