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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…

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Cell-free massive-multiple-input-multiple-output (CFmMIMO) is a key enabler for sixth-generation (6G) wireless communication networks, where distributed access points (APs) jointly serve user equipments (UEs). In commonly adopted channel…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-02 Andreas Angelou , Marc Moonen

This paper considers cell-free and user-centric approaches for coverage improvement in wireless cellular systems operating at millimeter wave frequencies, and proposes downlink power control algorithms aimed at maximizing the global energy…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-05-15 Mario Alonzo , Stefano Buzzi , Alessio Zappone

Multi-user Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) offers big advantages over conventional point-to-point MIMO: it works with cheap single-antenna terminals, a rich scattering environment is not required, and resource allocation is simplified…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Erik G. Larsson , Ove Edfors , Fredrik Tufvesson , Thomas L. Marzetta

A large-scale distributed antenna system that serves the users by coherent joint transmission is called Cell-free Massive MIMO (multiple input multiple output). For a given user set, only a subset of the access points (APs) is likely needed…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-11-27 Trinh Van Chien , Emil Björnson , Erik G. Larsson

Mobile edge computing (MEC) has been introduced to provide additional computing capabilities at network edges in order to improve performance of latency critical applications. In this paper, we consider the cell-free (CF) massive MIMO…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-08-19 Sudarshan Mukherjee , Jemin Lee

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

Cell-Free (CF) Massive MIMO (mMIMO) is a technology which can potentially augment not only the deployment of 5G, but also the deployment of beyond 5G (B5G) wireless networks. However, the cost for rolling out such systems may be…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-08-02 Ioannis Chiotis , Aris L. Moustakas

As an important piece of the multi-tier computing architecture for future wireless networks, over-the-air computation (OAC) enables efficient function computation in multiple-access edge computing, where a fusion center aims to compute a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-26 Yulin Shao , Deniz Gunduz , Soung Chang Liew

This letter presents and analyzes orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM)-based multi-carrier transmission for cell-free massive multi-input multi-output (CFmMIMO) over frequency-selective fading channels. Frequency-domain…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-07-06 Wei Jiang , Hans Dieter Schotten

Wireless federated learning (FL) relies on efficient uplink communications to aggregate model updates across distributed edge devices. Over-the-air computation (a.k.a. AirComp) has emerged as a promising approach for addressing the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Yujia Mu , Xizixiang Wei , Cong Shen

Imagine a coverage area where each mobile device is communicating with a preferred set of wireless access points (among many) that are selected based on its needs and cooperate to jointly serve it, instead of creating autonomous cells. This…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-11-29 Özlem Tuğfe Demir , Emil Björnson , Luca Sanguinetti

Distributed tensor decomposition (DTD) is a fundamental data-analytics technique that extracts latent important properties from high-dimensional multi-attribute datasets distributed over edge devices. Conventionally its wireless…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-05-16 Xu Chen , Erik G. Larsson , Kaibin Huang

Cell-free massive MIMO (multiple-input multiple-output) enhances spectral and energy efficiency compared to conventional cellular networks by enabling joint transmission and reception across a large number of distributed access points…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-10 Özlem Tuğfe Demir , Emil Björnson

Cell-free massive MIMO systems have promising data rate and uniform coverage gains. These systems, however, typically rely on optical fiber based fronthaul for the communication between the central processing unit (CPU) and the distributed…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-08-09 Umut Demirhan , Ahmed Alkhateeb

Cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (CF-mMIMO) is a breakthrough technology for beyond-5G systems, designed to significantly boost the energy and spectral efficiencies of future mobile networks while ensuring a consistent…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-19 Alejandro de la Fuente , Guillem Femenias , Felip Riera-Palou , Giovanni Interdonato

In a multi-agent system, agents can cooperatively learn a model from data by exchanging their estimated model parameters, without the need to exchange the locally available data used by the agents. This strategy, often called federated…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Halil Yigit Oksuz , Fabio Molinari , Henning Sprekeler , Jörg Raisch

Communication and computation are often viewed as separate tasks. This approach is very effective from the perspective of engineering as isolated optimizations can be performed. However, for many computation-oriented applications, the main…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-04-04 Alphan Sahin , Rui Yang

Cell-free (CF) massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems show great potentials in low-mobility scenarios, due to cell boundary disappearance and strong macro diversity. However, the great Doppler frequency offset (DFO) leads to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-03-03 Jiakang Zheng , Jiayi Zhang , Emil Björnson , Zhetao Li , Bo Ai

We consider a multi-cell massive multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) system with correlated Rayleigh fading channels, where pilot reuse is permitted within each cell (to reduce pilot overhead), and each base station (BS) utilizes…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Masoud Elyasi , Azadeh Vosoughi