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In the Internet-of-Things (IoT) era, efficient functionality integration is essential to address the growing demands of communication, computation, and sensing. Signal-level integrated sensing, computing, and communication (Sig-ISCC) is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-30 Paul Zheng , Yao Zhu , Xiaopeng Yuan , Yulin Hu , Anke Schmeink

In response to the increasing number of devices expected in next-generation networks, a shift to over-the-air (OTA) computing has been proposed. By leveraging the superposition of multiple access channels, OTA computing enables efficient…

With low-altitude economies emerging as a pivotal sector, this study explores an integrated sensing, communication, and computation system over low-altitude wireless networks. A full-duplex autonomous aerial vehicle (AAV) operates as an…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-22 Yiyang Chen , Wenchao Liu , Xuhui Zhang , Jinke Ren , Huijun Xing , Shuqiang Wang , Yanyan Shen , Kim-Fung Tsang

Future networks are expected to connect an enormous number of nodes wirelessly using wide-band transmission. This brings great challenges. To avoid collecting a large amount of data from the massive number of nodes, computation over…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-06-04 Fangzhou Wu , Li Chen , Nan Zhao , Yunfei Chen , F. Richard Yu , Guo Wei

Over-the-Air Computation (OAC) enables efficient data aggregation in large-scale distributed systems by exploiting the superposition property of wireless multiple-access channels. In contrast to most existing studies on OAC assuming exact…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-28 Martin Dahl , Zheng Chen , Erik G. Larsson

This paper addresses some aspects of the general problem of information transfer and distributed function computation in wireless networks. Many applications of wireless technology foresee networks of autonomous devices executing tasks that…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-09-09 Steffen Limmer , Slawomir Stanczak

To meet the requirements for high data rates and ubiquitous connectivity in 6G networks, higher frequencies and larger array apertures are employed to enhance spatial resolution and spectral efficiency. This evolution leads to an expansion…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-03 Shupei Zhang , Boya Di , Lingyang Song

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

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

This paper investigates the effect of imperfect channel state information (CSI) on the over-the-air computation (AirComp) system, in which multiple wireless devices (WDs) send individual messages to one access point (AP) for distributed…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-03-01 Yilong Chen , Guangxu Zhu , Jie Xu

Over-the-air computation (AirComp) based federated learning (FL) is capable of achieving fast model aggregation by exploiting the waveform superposition property of multiple access channels. However, the model aggregation performance is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-04-01 Zhibin Wang , Jiahang Qiu , Yong Zhou , Yuanming Shi , Liqun Fu , Wei Chen , Khaled B. Lataief

With the explosive growth of data and wireless devices, federated learning (FL) over wireless medium has emerged as a promising technology for large-scale distributed intelligent systems. Yet, the urgent demand for ubiquitous intelligence…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-09 Chenxi Zhong , Huiyuan Yang , Xiaojun Yuan

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

We propose a multi-sender, multi-receiver over-the-air computation (OAC) framework for wireless networked control systems (WNCS) with structural constraints. Our approach enables actuators to directly compute and apply control signals from…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-06 Seif Hussein , Chinwendu Enyioha , Carlo Fischione

Increased amounts of bandwidth are required to guarantee both high-quality/high-rate wireless services (4G and 5G) and reliable sensing capabilities such as automotive radar, air traffic control, earth geophysical monitoring and security…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-02-26 Le Zheng , Marco Lops , Yonina C. Eldar , Xiaodong Wang

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

The future sixth-generation (6G) of wireless networks is expected to surpass its predecessors by offering ubiquitous coverage through integrated air-ground facility deployments in both communication and computing domains. In this network,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-08-12 Shuhang Zhang , Qingyu Liu , Ke Chen , Boya Di , Hongliang Zhang , Wenhan Yang , Dusit Niyato , Zhu Han , H. Vincent Poor

We consider collaborative inference at the wireless edge, where each client's model is trained independently on its local dataset. Clients are queried in parallel to make an accurate decision collaboratively. In addition to maximizing the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-15 Selim F. Yilmaz , Burak Hasircioglu , Li Qiao , Deniz Gunduz

The growing number of wireless edge devices has magnified challenges concerning energy, bandwidth, latency, and data heterogeneity. These challenges have become bottlenecks for distributed learning. To address these issues, this paper…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-25 Mohamed Badi , Chaouki Ben Issaid , Anis Elgabli , Mehdi Bennis

When implementing hierarchical federated learning over wireless networks, scalability assurance and the ability to handle both interference and device data heterogeneity are crucial. This work introduces a learning method designed to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-04 Seyed Mohammad Azimi-Abarghouyi , Viktoria Fodor