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Over-the-Air Computation is a beyond-5G communication strategy that has recently been shown to be useful for the decentralized training of machine learning models due to its efficiency. In this paper, we propose an Over-the-Air federated…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-08 Halil Yigit Oksuz , Fabio Molinari , Henning Sprekeler , Joerg Raisch

One basic operation of Internet-of-Things (IoT) networks is aggregating distributed sensing-data over wireless-channels for function-computation, called wireless-data-aggregation (WDA). Targeting dense sensors, a recently developed…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-12-07 Dingzhu Wen , Guangxu Zhu , Kaibin Huang

Recently, the ChannelComp framework has proposed digital over-the-air computation by designing digital modulations that enable the computation of arbitrary functions. Unlike traditional analog over-the-air computation, which is restricted…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Saeed Razavikia , José Mairton Barros Da Silva Junior , Carlo Fischione

In this study we introduce Logarithmic Frequency Shift Keying (Log-FSK), a novel frequency modulation for over-the-air computation (AirComp). Log-FSK leverages non-linear signal processing to produce AirComp in the frequency domain, this…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-06 Marc Martinez-Gost , Ana Pérez-Neira , Miguel Ángel Lagunas

Recently, over-the-air computation (AirComp) leverages the superposition property of wireless channels to enable efficient function computation over a multiple access channel (MAC). However, existing digital AirComp methods either rely on…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-26 Xiaojing Yan , Saeed Razavikia , Carlo Fischione

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

Over-the-air computation (AirComp) integrates analog communication with task-oriented computation, serving as a key enabling technique for communication-efficient federated learning (FL) over wireless networks. However, owing to its analog…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Wei Shi , Jiacheng Yao , Wei Xu , Jindan Xu , Xiaohu You , Yonina C. Eldar , Chunming Zhao

Over-the-air computation (AirComp) is a promising technology that is capable of achieving fast data aggregation in Internet of Things (IoT) networks. The mean-squared error (MSE) performance of AirComp is bottlenecked by the unfavorable…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-09-17 Wenzhi Fang , Min Fu , Kunlun Wang , Yuanming Shi , Yong Zhou

In this paper, we consider decentralized federated learning (FL) over wireless networks, where over-the-air computation (AirComp) is adopted to facilitate the local model consensus in a device-to-device (D2D) communication manner. However,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-06-16 Yandong Shi , Yong Zhou , Yuanming Shi

Distributed tensor decomposition (DTD) is a fundamental data-analytics technique that extracts latent important properties from high-dimensional multi-attribute datasets distributed over edge devices. Conventionally its wireless…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-05-16 Xu Chen , Erik G. Larsson , Kaibin Huang

Over-the-air computation (OAC) has emerged as a key technique for efficient function computation over multiple-access channels (MACs) by exploiting the waveform superposition property of the wireless domain. While conventional OAC methods…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Saeed Razavikia , Deniz Gündüz , Carlo Fischione

A segmented waveguide-enabled pinching-antenna system (SWAN)-assisted over-the-air computation (AirComp) framework is proposed. Three transmission architectures, namely segment selection (SS), phase-shifter-free segment aggregation (SA),…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-05 Songnan Gu , Hao Jiang , Chongjun Ouyang , Dian Fan , Yuanwei Liu , Arumugam Nallanathan

We investigate fast data aggregation via over-the-air computation (AirComp) over wireless networks. In this scenario, an access point (AP) with multiple antennas aims to recover the arithmetic mean of sensory data from multiple wireless…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-04-23 Hongbin Zhu , Hua Qian

The conventional FL methods face critical challenges in realistic wireless edge networks, where training data is both limited and heterogeneous, often leading to unstable training and poor generalization. To address these challenges in a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-09 Jun-Pyo Hong , Hyowoon Seo , Kisong Lee

In this study we introduce Logarithmic Frequency Shift Keying (Log-FSK), a novel frequency modulation for over-the-air computation (AirComp). Log-FSK leverages non-linear signal processing to produce AirComp in the frequency domain, this…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-05 Marc Martinez-Gost , Ana Pérez-Neira , Miguel Ángel Lagunas

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

A distinctive function of sixth-generation (6G) networks is the integration of distributed sensing and edge artificial intelligence (AI) to enable intelligent perception of the physical world. This resultant platform, termed integrated…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-09-17 Zhanwei Wang , Mingyao Cui , Huiling Yang , Qunsong Zeng , Min Sheng , Kaibin Huang

Federated learning (FL) enables mobile devices to collaboratively learn a shared prediction model while keeping data locally. However, there are two major research challenges to practically deploy FL over mobile devices: (i) frequent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-16 Liang Li , Chenpei Huang , Dian Shi , Hao Wang , Xiangwei Zhou , Minglei Shu , Miao Pan

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

This work is concerned with integrated sensing, communication, and computation (ISCC) in uplink orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) systems, wherein multiple devices perform target sensing and over-the-air computation…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-08 Biao Dong , Bin Cao , Qinyu Zhang