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This paper analyses foundational techniques for improving wireless communication systems, including coding methods, modulation schemes, and channel equalization. Using industry-standard simulation tools, the paper evaluates the performance…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-23 Solomon McKiernan

Consider a distributed computing system in which the worker nodes are connected over a shared wireless channel. Nodes can store a fraction of the data set over which computation needs to be carried out, and a Map-Shuffle-Reduce protocol is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-10-29 Sukjong Ha , Jingjing Zhang , Osvaldo Simeone , Joonhyuk Kang

This paper utilizes the properties of type-based multiple access (TBMA) to investigate its effectiveness as a robust approach for over-the-air computation (AirComp) in the presence of Byzantine attacks, this is, adversarial strategies where…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-27 Marc Martinez-Gost , Ana Pérez-Neira , Miguel Ángel Lagunas

Edge federated learning (FL) is an emerging paradigm that trains a global parametric model from distributed datasets based on wireless communications. This paper proposes a unit-modulus over-the-air computation (UMAirComp) framework to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-04-12 Shuai Wang , Yuncong Hong , Rui Wang , Qi Hao , Yik-Chung Wu , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng

Over-the-air computation is a communication-efficient solution for federated learning (FL). In such a system, iterative procedure is performed: Local gradient of private loss function is updated, amplified and then transmitted by every…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Rongfei Fan , Xuming An , Shiyuan Zuo , Han Hu

Interleaving is a mechanism universally used in wireless access technologies to alleviate the effect of channel correlation. In spite of its wide adoption, to the best of our knowledge, there are no analytical models proposed so far. In…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-01-31 Dmitri Moltchanov , Pavel Kustarev , Yevgeni Kucharyavy

This paper presents a consensus protocol that achieves max-consensus in multi-agent systems over wireless channels. Interference, a feature of the wireless channel, is exploited: each agent receives a superposition of broadcast data, rather…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-05-18 Fabio Molinari , Sławomir Stańczak , Jörg Raisch

In this paper, we consider communication-efficient over-the-air federated learning (FL), where multiple edge devices with non-independent and identically distributed datasets perform multiple local iterations in each communication round and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-29 Yinan Zou , Zixin Wang , Xu Chen , Haibo Zhou , Yong Zhou

This paper studies system stability and performance of multi-agent systems in the context of consensus problems over wireless multiple-access channels (MAC). We propose a consensus algorithm that exploits the broadcast property of the…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-04-30 Fabio Molinari , Sławomir Stańczak , Jörg Raisch

The classical problem in network coding theory considers communication over multicast networks. Multiple transmitters send independent messages to multiple receivers which decode the same set of messages. In this work, computation over…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-02-18 Changho Suh , Naveen Goela , Michael Gastpar

The next generations of wireless networks are envisioned to integrate communications, sensing, and computing into a unified platform, demanding ultra-high data rates, submillisecond latency, and unprecedented energy efficiency. However,…

Over-the-air computation has the potential to increase the communication-efficiency of data-dependent distributed wireless systems, but is vulnerable to eavesdropping. We consider over-the-air computation over block-fading additive white…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-12-23 Luis Maßny , Antonia Wachter-Zeh

This letter studies an uplink over-the-air computation (AirComp) framework in which multiple user equipments are equipped with fluid-antenna (FA) arrays and operate over spatially correlated fading channels. By explicitly modeling channel…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-06 Saeid Pakravan , Mohsen Ahmadzadeh , Wessam Ajib , Ghosheh Abed Hodtani , Ming Zeng

With the integration of communication and computing, it is expected that part of the computing is transferred to the transmitter side. In this paper we address the general problem of Frequency Modulation (FM) for function approximation…

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

One of the key challenges towards the deployment of over-the-air federated learning (AirFL) is the design of mechanisms that can comply with the power and bandwidth constraints of the shared channel, while causing minimum deterioration to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-19 Haifeng Wen , Hong Xing , Osvaldo Simeone

Amplitude demodulation is a classical operation used in signal processing. For a long time, its effective applications in practice have been limited to narrowband signals. In this work, we generalize amplitude demodulation to wideband…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-16 Mantas Gabrielaitis

Multiplexing services as a key communication technique to effectively combine multiple signals into one signal and transmit over a shared medium. Multiplexing can increase the channel capacity by requiring more resources on the transmission…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-12-27 Chunlin Ji , Ruopeng Liu

In this paper, we consider fast wireless data aggregation via over-the-air computation (AirComp) in Internet of Things (IoT) networks, where an access point (AP) with multiple antennas aim to recover the arithmetic mean of sensory data from…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-12 Wenzhi Fang , Yinan Zou , Hongbin Zhu , Yuanming Shi , Yong Zhou

One of the biggest challenges in operating massive multiple-input multiple-output systems is the acquisition of accurate channel state information at the transmitter. To take up this challenge, time division duplex is more favorable thanks…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Xiwen Jiang , Alexis Decurninge , Kalyana Gopala , Florian Kaltenberger , Maxime Guillaud , Dirk Slock , Luc Deneire

This paper studies the robustness of type-based multiple access (TBMA) in over-the-air computation (AirComp) under nonparametric estimation, where no prior knowledge of the data distribution is available. While conventional AirComp…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-12 Marc Martinez-Gost , Ana Pérez-Neira , Miguel Ángel Lagunas