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The emerging concept of Over-the-Air (OtA) computation has shown great potential for achieving resource-efficient data aggregation across large wireless networks. However, current research in this area has been limited to the standard…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-15 Zheng Chen , Yura Malitsky

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

Quantum computing is poised to redefine the algorithmic foundations of communication systems. While quantum superposition and entanglement enable quadratic or exponential speedups for specific problems, identifying use cases where these…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-10 Naoki Ishikawa , Giuseppe Thadeu Freitas de Abreu , Petar Popovski , Robert W. Heath

The idea of media-based modulation (MBM) is to embed information in the channel states via intentional perturbations of the transmission media. This article covers a broad range of topics regarding MBM, expanding on its benefits and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-11-15 Ehsan Seifi , Amir K. Khandani , Mehran Atamanesh

Consider several source nodes communicating across a wireless network to a destination node with the help of several layers of relay nodes. Recent work by Avestimehr et al. has approximated the capacity of this network up to an additive…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-06-05 Urs Niesen , Bobak Nazer , Phil Whiting

Via collaborative beamforming, nodes in a wireless network are able to transmit a common message over long distances in an energy efficient fashion. However, the process of making available the same message to all collaborating nodes…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Lun Dong , Athina P. Petropulu , H. Vincent Poor

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

This paper is concerned with the channel estimation problem in millimetre wave (MMW) wireless systems with large antenna arrays. By exploiting the sparse nature of the MMW channel, we present an efficient estimation algorithm based on a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-04-19 Matthew Kokshoorn , Peng Wang , Yonghui Li , Branka Vucetic

In recent years, network coding has emerged as an innovative method that helps a wireless network approach its maximum capacity, by combining multiple unicasts in one broadcast. However, the majority of research conducted in this area is…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-01-09 Somayeh Kafaie , Yuanzhu Chen , Mohamed Hossam Ahmed , Octavia A. Dobre

Cooperative transmission is an emerging communication technique that takes advantage of the broadcast nature of wireless channels. However, due to low spectral efficiency and the requirement of orthogonal channels, its potential for use in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Zhu Han , Xin Zhang , H. Vincent Poor

We consider the problem of non-coherent over-the-air computation (AirComp), where $n$ devices carry high-dimensional data vectors $\mathbf{x}_i\in\mathbb{R}^d$ of sparsity $\lVert\mathbf{x}_i\rVert_0\leq k$ whose sum has to be computed at a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-22 Henrik Hellström , Jiwon Jeong , Ayfer Özgür , Viktoria Fodor , Carlo Fischione

In this paper, we study unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) assisted wireless data aggregation (WDA) in multicluster networks, where multiple UAVs simultaneously perform different WDA tasks via over-the-air computation (AirComp) without…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-12-26 Min Fu , Yong Zhou , Yuanming Shi , Chunxiao Jiang , Wei Zhang

The polar codes are proven to be capacity-achieving and are shown to have equivalent or even better finite-length performance than the turbo/LDPC codes under some improved decoding algorithms over the additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-05-20 Kai Chen , Kai Niu , Jiaru Lin

Deep learning-based joint source-channel coding (JSCC) is emerging as a potential technology to meet the demand for effective data transmission, particularly for image transmission. Nevertheless, most existing advancements only consider…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-18 Pujing Yang , Guangyi Zhang , Yunlong Cai

We propose a novel flexible and scalable framework to design integrated communication and computing (ICC) -- a.k.a. over-the-air computing (AirComp)-- receivers. To elaborate, while related literature so far has generally focused either on…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-12 Kuranage Roche Rayan Ranasinghe , Kengo Ando , Giuseppe Thadeu Freitas de Abreu

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 recent years, over-the-air aggregation has been widely considered in large-scale distributed learning, optimization, and sensing. In this paper, we propose the over-the-air federated policy gradient algorithm, where all agents…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-27 Huiwen Yang , Lingying Huang , Subhrakanti Dey , Ling Shi

This paper studies an over-the-air federated edge learning (Air-FEEL) system with integrated sensing, communication, and computation (ISCC), in which one edge server coordinates multiple edge devices to wirelessly sense the objects and use…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-08-22 Dingzhu Wen , Sijing Xie , Xiaowen Cao , Yuanhao Cui , Jie Xu , Yuanming Shi , Shuguang Cui

To reduce the signaling overhead of over-the-air computation, a hybrid channel estimation scheme is proposed, where reciprocity-based and feedback-based channel estimation are combined. In particular, the impact of quantized phase-feedback…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-23 Martin Dahl , Erik G. Larsson

Digital teleportation protocols make use of entanglement, local measurements and a classical communication channel to transfer quantum states between remote parties. We consider analog teleportation protocols, where classical communication…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-16 Uesli Alushi , Simone Felicetti , Roberto Di Candia