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This letter studies channel coding for over-the-air computation (AirComp). AirComp enables efficient wireless data aggregation, where computation accuracy is the key performance metric. However, this accuracy is sensitive to channel…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Shudi Weng , Ming Xiao , Mikael Skoglund

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 computation (AirComp) leverages the signal-superposition characteristic of wireless multiple access channels to perform mathematical computations. Initially introduced to enhance communication reliability in interference…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-05 Ana Pérez-Neira , Marc Martinez-Gost , Alphan Şahin , Saeed Razavikia , Carlo Fischione , Kaibin Huang

This paper presents the first orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing(OFDM)-based digital over-the-air computation (AirComp) system for wireless federated edge learning, where multiple edge devices transmit model data simultaneously…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-07-06 Lizhao You , Xinbo Zhao , Rui Cao , Yulin Shao , Liqun Fu

Over-the-air computation (AirComp) becomes a promising approach for fast wireless data aggregation via exploiting the superposition property in a multiple access channel. To further overcome the unfavorable signal propagation conditions for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-05-01 Tao Jiang , Yuanming Shi

Wireless networks supporting artificial intelligence have gained significant attention, with Over-the-Air Federated Learning emerging as a key application due to its unique transmission and distributed computing characteristics. This paper…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-24 Yifan Wang , Cheng Zhang , Yuanndon Zhuang , Mingzeng Dai , Haiming Wang , Yongming Huang

Cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (CF mMIMO) systems serve the user equipments (UEs) by geographically distributed access points (APs) by means of joint transmission and reception. To limit the power consumption due to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-25 Shuaifei Chen , Jiayi Zhang , Emil Björnson , Özlem Tuğfe Demir , Bo Ai

Cell-Free Massive Multiple-input Multiple-output (mMIMO) consists of many access points (APs) in a coverage area that jointly serve the users. These systems can significantly reduce the interference among the users compared to conventional…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-11-16 Abbas Khalili , Alexei Ashikhmin , Hong Yang

Over-the-air computation (AirComp) seamlessly integrates communication and computation by exploiting the waveform superposition property of multiple-access channels. Different from the existing works that focus on transceiver design of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-02 Min Fu , Yong Zhou , Yuanming Shi , Wei Chen , Rui Zhang

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

Future intelligent systems will consist of a massive number of battery-less sensors, where quick and accurate aggregation of sensor data will be of paramount importance. Over-the-air computation (AirComp) is a promising technology wherein…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-01-14 Amin Farajzadeh , Ozgur Ercetin , Halim Yanikomeroglu

Over-the-air computation (AirComp) has traditionally been built on the principle of pre-embedding computation into transmitted waveforms or on exploiting massive antenna arrays, often requiring the wireless multiple-access channel (MAC) to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Seyed Mohammad Azimi-Abarghouyi

Decentralized federated learning (DFL), inherited from distributed optimization, is an emerging paradigm to leverage the explosively growing data from wireless devices in a fully distributed manner.DFL enables joint training of machine…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-10 Zhiyuan Zhai , Xiaojun Yuan , Xin Wang

To support the unprecedented growth of the Internet of Things (IoT) applications, tremendous data need to be collected by the IoT devices and delivered to the server for further computation. By utilizing the same signals for both radar…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-02-23 Xiaoyang Li , Fan Liu , Ziqin Zhou , Guangxu Zhu , Shuai Wang , Kaibin Huang , Yi Gong

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

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

The mobile data traffic has been exponentially growing during the last decades, which has been enabled by the densification of the network infrastructure in terms of increased cell density (i.e., ultra-dense network (UDN)) and/or increased…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-10-07 Shuaifei Chen , Jiayi Zhang , Jing Zhang , Emil Björnson , Bo Ai

This paper presents the first broadband digital over-the-air computation (AirComp) system for phase asynchronous OFDM-based federated edge learning systems. Existing analog AirComp systems often assume perfect phase alignment via channel…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-11-23 Xinbo Zhao , Lizhao You , Rui Cao , Yulin Shao , Liqun Fu

Sensing is envisioned as a key network function of the 6G mobile networks. Artificial intelligence (AI)-empowered sensing fuses features of multiple sensing views from devices distributed in edge networks for the edge server to perform…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-02-21 Zhiyan Liu , Qiao Lan , Anders E. Kalør , Petar Popovski , Kaibin Huang

Over-the-air computation (AirComp) has emerged as a promising technology for fast wireless data aggregation by harnessing the superposition property of wireless multiple-access channels. This paper investigates a fluid antenna (FA)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-02-14 Deyou Zhang , Sicong Ye , Ming Xiao , Kezhi Wang , Marco Di Renzo , Mikael Skoglund