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This paper investigates covert data transmission within a multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) over-the-air computation (AirComp) network, where sensors transmit data to the access point (AP) while guaranteeing covertness to the warden…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-18 Junteng Yao , Tuo Wu , Ming Jin , Cunhua Pan , Quanzhong Li , Jinhong Yuan

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

The rapid expansion of oceanic applications such as underwater surveillance and mineral exploration is driving the need for real-time wireless backhaul of massive observational data. Such demands are challenging to meet using the narrowband…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-19 Jiayue Liu , Tianqi Mao , Leyu Cao , Weijie Liu , Dezhi Zheng , Julian Cheng , Zhaocheng Wang

Integrating sensing and communication (ISAC) can help overcome the challenges of limited spectrum and expensive hardware, leading to improved energy and cost efficiency. While full cooperation between sensing and communication can result in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-16 Mojtaba Vaezi , Gayan Aruma Baduge , Esa Ollila , Sergiy A. Vorobyov

Mobile edge computing (MEC) is powerful to alleviate the heavy computing tasks in integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) systems. In this paper, we investigate joint beamforming and offloading design in a three-tier integrated sensing,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-29 Peng Liu , Zesong Fei , Xinyi Wang , Yiqing Zhou , Yan Zhang , Fan Liu

Over-the-air aggregation has attracted widespread attention for its potential advantages in task-oriented applications, such as distributed sensing, learning, and consensus. In this paper, we develop a communication-efficient distributed…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-12 Huiwen Yang , Xiaomeng Chen , Lingying Huang , Subhrakanti Dey , Ling Shi

Future wireless networks are envisioned to support both sensing and artificial intelligence (AI) services. However, conventional integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) networks may not be suitable due to the ignorance of diverse…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Wenhao Zhuang , Xinyu He , Yuyi Mao , Juan Liu

In conventional communication systems, any interference between two communicating points is regarded as unwanted noise since it distorts the received signals. On the other hand, allowing simultaneous transmission and intentionally accepting…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-08-02 Ufuk Altun , Gunes Karabulut Kurt , Enver Ozdemir

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are a relatively new technology. Their application can often involve complex and unseen problems. For instance, they can work in a cooperative-based environment under the supervision of a ground station to…

This paper investigates the problem of model aggregation in federated learning systems aided by multiple reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs). The effective integration of computation and communication is achieved by over-the-air…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-07-09 Wanli Ni , Yuanwei Liu , Zhaohui Yang , Hui Tian , Xuemin Shen

This paper investigates a fluid antenna (FA) array-enhanced over-the-air computation (AirComp) system in the presence of hardware impairments (HWIs), exploiting the new degrees of freedom offered by reconfigurable antenna positioning. To…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-08 Zilong Li , Jianxin Dai , Zhaohui Yang , Zhaoyang Zhang , Kai-Kit Wong , Zhiyang Li , Shunkuan Cheng

With the rapid development of low-altitude wireless networking, autonomous aerial vehicles (AAVs) have emerged as critical enablers for timely and reliable data delivery, particularly in remote or underserved areas. In this context, the age…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Zifan Lang , Guixia Liu , Jiahui Li , Geng Sun , Zemin Sun , Jiacheng Wang , Dusit Niyato , Victor C. M. Leung

In sight of fundamental thermal limits on further substantial performance improvements of modern digital computational processing units, wave-based analog computation is becoming an enticing alternative. A wave, as it propagates through a…

Classical Physics · Physics 2018-12-05 Philipp del Hougne , Geoffroy Lerosey

Federated learning (FL) has been considered a promising privacy preserving distributed edge learning framework. Over-the-air computation (AirComp) leveraging analog transmission enables the aggregation of local updates directly over-the-air…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-06 Lorenz Bielefeld , Paul Zheng , Oner Hanay , Yao Zhu , Yulin Hu , Anke Schmeink

We propose a novel framework for integrated communication and computing (ICC) transceiver design in time-varying millimeter-wave (mmWave) channels. In particular, in order to cope with the dynamics of time-varying mmWave channels, the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-10 Joan Çollaku , Kuranage Roche Rayan Ranasinghe , Giuseppe Thadeu Freitas de Abreu , Takumi Takahashi

The beamforming techniques have been recently studied as possible enablers for underlay spectrum sharing. The existing beamforming techniques have several common limitations: they are usually system model specific, cannot operate with…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-04-27 Daniel Denkovski , Valentin Rakovic , Vladimir Atanasovski , Liljana Gavrilovska , Petri Mähönen

Various wireless sensor network applications involve the computation of a pre-defined function of the measurements without the need for reconstructing each individual sensor reading. Widely-considered examples of such functions include the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-10-16 Mario Goldenbaum , Sławomir Stańczak

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, AirComp-enabled FL…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-09-26 Wei Shi , Jiacheng Yao , Jindan Xu , Wei Xu , Lexi Xu , Chunming Zhao

In this paper, we investigate the communication designs of over-the-air computation (AirComp) empowered federated learning (FL) systems considering uplink model aggregation and downlink model dissemination jointly. We first derive an upper…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-11-08 Deyou Zhang , Ming Xiao , Mikael Skoglund

Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-assisted mobile edge computing (MEC) system is a prominent concept, where a UAV equipped with a MEC server is deployed to serve a number of terminal devices (TDs) of Internet of Things (IoT) in a finite period.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-13 Tiankui Zhang , Yu Xu , Jonathan Loo , Dingcheng Yang , Lin Xiao