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In this paper, we develop an orthogonal-frequency-division-multiplexing (OFDM)-based over-the-air (OTA) aggregation solution for wireless federated learning (FL). In particular, the local gradients in massive IoT devices are modulated by an…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-28 Huayan Guo , Yifan Zhu , Haoyu Ma , Vincent K. N. Lau , Kaibin Huang , Xiaofan Li , Huabin Nong , Mingyu Zhou

Over-the-air computation (AirComp) is emerging as a promising technology for wireless data aggregation. However, its performance is hampered by users with poor channel conditions. To mitigate such a performance bottleneck, this paper…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-12-01 Deyou Zhang , Ming Xiao , Mikael Skoglund , H. Vincent Poor

This paper introduces AirCNN, a novel paradigm for implementing convolutional neural networks (CNNs) via over-the-air (OTA) analog computation. By leveraging multiple reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) and transceiver designs, we…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Meng Hua , Haotian Wu , Deniz Gündüz

Analog machine-learning hardware platforms promise greater speed and energy efficiency than their digital counterparts. Specifically, over-the-air analog computation allows offloading computation to the wireless propagation through…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-09 Mengbing Liu , Jiancheng An , Chongwen Huang , Chau Yuen

We propose a novel resource efficient analog over-the-air (OTA) computation framework to address the demanding requirements of the uplink (UL) fronthaul between the access points (APs) and the central processing unit (CPU) in cell-free…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-11-15 Zakir Hussain Shaik , Sai Subramanyam Thoota , Emil Björnson , Erik G. Larsson

Over-the-air computation (AirComp) enables fast wireless data aggregation at the receiver through concurrent transmission by sensors in the application of Internet-of-Things (IoT). To further improve the performance of AirComp under…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-06-15 Wenhui Zhang , Jindan Xu , Wei Xu , Xiaohu You , Weijie Fu

Over-the-air computation (AirComp), which leverages the superposition property of wireless multiple-access channel (MAC) and the mathematical tool of function representation, has been considered as a promising technique for effective…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Xin Zang , Wanchun Liu , Yonghui Li , Branka Vucetic

To improve the capacity and coverage of current cellular networks, many advanced technologies such as massive MIMO, inter-cell coordination, small cells, device-to-device communications, and so on, are under studying. Many proposed…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-11-13 Chunliang Yang

Over-the-air computation (AirComp), as a data aggregation method that can improve network efficiency by exploiting the superposition characteristics of wireless channels, has received much attention recently. Meanwhile, the orthogonal time…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-03-27 Dongkai Zhou , Jing Guo , Siqiang Wang , Zhong Zheng , Zesong Fei , Weijie Yuan , Xinyi Wang

Over-the-air federated learning (OTA-FL) offers an exciting new direction over classical FL by averaging model weights using the physics of analog signal propagation. Since each participant broadcasts its model weights concurrently in time…

Federated edge learning (FEEL) enables distributed model training across wireless devices without centralising raw data, but deployment is constrained by the wireless uplink. A promising direction is over-the-air (OTA) aggregation, which…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Antonio Tarizzo , Mohammad Kazemi , Deniz Gündüz

Wireless networks-on-chip (WNoCs) are an enticing complementary interconnect technology for multi-core chips but face severe resource constraints. Being limited to simple on-off-keying modulation, the reverberant nature of the chip…

Applied Physics · Physics 2023-10-26 Jean Tapie , Hugo Prod'homme , Mohammadreza F. Imani , Philipp del Hougne

For future Internet of Things (IoT)-based Big Data applications (e.g., smart cities/transportation), wireless data collection from ubiquitous massive smart sensors with limited spectrum bandwidth is very challenging. On the other hand, to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Wanchun Liu , Xin Zang , Yonghui Li , Branka Vucetic

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

The future wireless communications are expected to provide new use scenarios with emerging techniques. This paper focuses on vehicle to everything (V2X) network, where vehicles should cooperatively implement information obtaining, data…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-24 Chonghao Zhao

Millimeter-wave (mmWave) communication offers vast bandwidth for next-generation wireless systems but faces severe path loss, Doppler effects, and hardware impairments. Orthogonal Time Frequency Space (OTFS) modulation has emerged as a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-12 Sabarinath Ramachandran , Venkatesh Khammammetti , Prasanthi Maddala , Narayan Mandayam , Ivan Seskar , Robert Calderbank

State-of-the-art performance for many edge applications is achieved by deep neural networks (DNNs). Often, these DNNs are location- and time-sensitive, and must be delivered over a wireless channel rapidly and efficiently. In this paper, we…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-07-21 Mikolaj Jankowski , Deniz Gunduz , Krystian Mikolajczyk

In this paper, we consider a wireless multihop device-to-device (D2D) based mobile edge computing (MEC) system, where the destination wireless device (WD) is scheduled to compute nomographic functions. Under the MapReduce framework and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-05-04 Feng Wang , Vincent K. N. Lau

This paper studies the over-the-air computation (AirComp) in an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) system with imperfect channel state information (CSI), in which multiple single-antenna wireless devices (WDs) simultaneously…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-12 Yilong Chen , Huijun Xing , Jie Xu , Lexi Xu , Shuguang Cui

Over-the-air (OTA) federated learning (FL) has been well recognized as a scalable paradigm that exploits the waveform superposition of the wireless multiple-access channel to aggregate model updates in a single use. Existing OTA-FL designs…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-16 Muhammad Faraz Ul Abrar , Nicolò Michelusi