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Federated learning (FL) has emerged as a promising learning paradigm in which only local model parameters (gradients) are shared. Private user data never leaves the local devices thus preserving data privacy. However, recent research has…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-12-23 Xiaochan Xue , Moh Khalid Hasan , Shucheng Yu , Laxima Niure Kandel , Min Song

To enhance the quality and speed of data processing and protect the privacy and security of the data, edge computing has been extensively applied to support data-intensive intelligent processing services at edge. Among these data-intensive…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-10-30 Yana Qin , Danye Wu , Zhiwei Xu , Jie Tian , Yujun Zhang

In this paper, we study a federated learning system at the wireless edge that uses over-the-air computation (AirComp). In such a system, users transmit their messages over a multi-access channel concurrently to achieve fast model…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-08-04 Ruichen Jiang , Sheng Zhou

AI-based sensing at wireless edge devices has the potential to significantly enhance Artificial Intelligence (AI) applications, particularly for vision and perception tasks such as in autonomous driving and environmental monitoring. AI…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Mohamed Seif , Malcolm Egan , Andrea J. Goldsmith , H. Vincent Poor

We consider the problem of collaborative personalized mean estimation under a privacy constraint in an environment of several agents continuously receiving data according to arbitrary unknown agent-specific distributions. In particular, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-02 Yauhen Yakimenka , Chung-Wei Weng , Hsuan-Yin Lin , Eirik Rosnes , Jörg Kliewer

This paper introduces a novel multi-objective integrated sensing and communications (ISAC) framework to enable collaborative wireless sensing in conjunction with over-the-air federated-edge learning (OTA-FEEL). The framework enables…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Saba Asaad , Hina Tabassum , Ping Wang

Pervasive applications over large-scale, distributed embedded devices and the Internet of Things (IoT) demand precise coordination with the network; for example, several such applications, like collaborative video streaming and live…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-06-07 Argha Sen , Ayan Zunaid , Soumyajit Chatterjee , Basabdatta Palit , Sandip Chakraborty

This paper investigates task-oriented communication for multi-device cooperative edge inference, where a group of distributed low-end edge devices transmit the extracted features of local samples to a powerful edge server for inference.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-13 Jiawei Shao , Yuyi Mao , Jun Zhang

Over-the-Air Federated Learning (OTA-FL) is a privacy-preserving distributed learning mechanism, by aggregating updates in the electromagnetic channel rather than at the server. A critical research gap in existing OTA-FL research is the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-14 Jinsheng Yuan , Zhuangkun Wei , Weisi Guo

In this study, we propose using an over-the-air computation (OAC) scheme for the federated k-means clustering algorithm to reduce the per-round communication latency when it is implemented over a wireless network. The OAC scheme relies on…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-15 Alphan Sahin

Over-the-air computation (OAC) enables low-latency aggregation over multiple-access channels (MACs) by exploiting the superposition property of the wireless medium to compute functions efficiently in distributed networks. A critical but…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-25 Saeed Razavikia , Deniz Gündüz , Carlo Fischione

Over-the-air computation (AirComp) has been recognized as a low-latency solution for wireless sensor data fusion, where multiple sensors send their measurement signals to a receiver simultaneously for computation. Most existing work only…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Tianrui Qin , Wanchun Liu , Branka Vucetic , Yonghui Li

In this study, a digital over-the-air computation (OAC) scheme for achieving continuous-valued gradient aggregation is proposed. It is shown that the average of a set of real-valued parameters can be calculated approximately by using the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-23 Alphan Sahin , Rui Yang

In this paper, a cloud radio access network (Cloud-RAN) based collaborative edge AI inference architecture is proposed. Specifically, geographically distributed devices capture real-time noise-corrupted sensory data samples and extract the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-04-10 Pengfei Zhang , Dingzhu Wen , Guangxu Zhu , Qimei Chen , Kaifeng Han , Yuanming Shi

The massive growth in the utilization of edge AI has made the applications of machine learning models ubiquitous in different domains. Despite the computation and communication efficiency of these systems, due to limited computation…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Mohammad Mahdi Kamani , Zhongwei Cheng , Lin Chen

To facilitate the development of Internet of Things (IoT) services, tremendous IoT devices are deployed in the wireless network to collect and pass data to the server for further processing. Aiming at improving the data sensing and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-11-08 Xiaoyang Li , Yi Gong , Kaibin Huang , Zhisheng Niu

The widespread adoption of large artificial intelligence (AI) models has enabled numerous applications of the Internet of Things (IoT). However, large AI models require substantial computational and memory resources, which exceed the…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Dailin Yang , Shuhang Zhang , Hongliang Zhang , Lingyang Song

Edge computing has emerged as a popular paradigm for supporting mobile and IoT applications with low latency or high bandwidth needs. The attractiveness of edge computing has been further enhanced due to the recent availability of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-03-30 Qianlin Liang , Prashant Shenoy , David Irwin

The ability to perform computation on devices, such as smartphones, cars, or other nodes present at the Internet of Things leads to constraints regarding bandwidth, storage, and energy, as most of these devices are mobile and operate on…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Natascha Harth , Hans-Joerg Voegel , Kostas Kolomvatsos , Christos Anagnostopoulos

Cloud-edge collaborative inference approach splits deep neural networks (DNNs) into two parts that run collaboratively on resource-constrained edge devices and cloud servers, aiming at minimizing inference latency and protecting data…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-12-14 Yulong Wang , Xingshu Chen , Qixu Wang