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A non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA)-aided joint communication, sensing, and multi-tier computing (JCSMC) framework is proposed. In this framework, a multi-functional base station (BS) carries out target sensing, while providing edge…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-12-29 Zhaolin Wang , Xidong Mu , Yuanwei Liu , Xiaodong Xu , Ping Zhang

Standard federated learning algorithms are vulnerable to adversarial nodes, a.k.a. Byzantine failures. To solve this issue, robust distributed learning algorithms have been developed, which typically replace parameter averaging by robust…

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Privacy-preserving federated averaging is a central approach for protecting client privacy in federated learning. In this paper, we study this problem in an asynchronous communications setting with malicious aggregators. We propose a new…

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We consider the problem of type estimation over unsourced multiple access fading channels in distributed multiple-input multiple-output (D-MIMO) systems. Unlike classical unsourced multiple access, type-based unsourced multiple access…

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Distributed peer-to-peer (P2P) energy trading mandates an escalating coupling between the physical power network and communication network, necessitating high-frequency sharing of real-time data among prosumers. However, this data-sharing…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-28 Junhong Liu , Qinfei Long , Rong-Peng Liu , Wenjie Liu , Yunhe Hou

Over-the-air computation (AirComp) is a disruptive technique for fast wireless data aggregation in Internet of Things (IoT) networks via exploiting the waveform superposition property of multiple-access channels. However, the performance of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-12 Wenzhi Fang , Yuning Jiang , Yuanming Shi , Yong Zhou , Wei Chen , Khaled B. Letaief

This paper proposes a new approach that enables multi-agent systems to achieve resilient \textit{constrained} consensus in the presence of Byzantine attacks, in contrast to existing literature that is only applicable to…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-19 Xuan Wang , Shaoshuai Mou , Shreyas Sundaram

By offering shared computational facilities to which mobile devices can offload their computational tasks, the mobile edge computing framework is expanding the scope of applications that can be provided on resource-constrained devices. When…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-10-16 Mahsa Salmani , Timothy N. Davidson

We investigate the fundamental multiple access (MA) scheme in an active intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) aided energy-constrained Internet-of-Things (IoT) system, where an active IRS is deployed to assist the uplink transmission from…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-02-01 Guangji Chen , Qingqing Wu , Chong He , Wen Chen , Jie Tang , Shi Jin

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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Federated learning (FL) enables mobile devices to collaboratively learn a shared prediction model while keeping data locally. However, there are two major research challenges to practically deploy FL over mobile devices: (i) frequent…

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This paper proposes a Time Division Multiple Access (TDMA) MAC slot allocation protocol with efficient bandwidth usage in wireless sensor networks and Internet of Things (IoTs). The developed protocol has two primary components: a…

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Iterative Approximate Byzantine Consensus (IABC) is a fundamental problem of fault-tolerant distributed computing where machines seek to achieve approximate consensus to arbitrary exactness in the presence of Byzantine failures. We present…

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This paper proposes the first implementation of an atomic storage tolerant to mobile Byzantine agents. Our implementation is designed for the round-based synchronous model where the set of Byzantine nodes changes from round to round. In…

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How to achieve precise distributed optimization despite unknown attacks, especially the Byzantine attacks, is one of the critical challenges for multiagent systems. This paper addresses a distributed resilient optimization for linear…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-18 Chenhang Yan , Liping Yan , Yuezu Lv , Bolei Dong , Yuanqing Xia

Due to its high communication efficiency, over-the-air computation (AirComp) has been expected to carry out various computing tasks in the next-generation wireless networks. However, up to now, most applications of AirComp are explored in…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-14 Xin Xie , Cunqinq Hua , Jianan Hong , Yuejun Wei

Lattice codes used under the Compute-and-Forward paradigm suggest an alternative strategy for the standard Gaussian multiple-access channel (MAC): The receiver successively decodes integer linear combinations of the messages until it can…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Jingge Zhu , Michael Gastpar

In this paper, a joint transmitter and receiver design for pattern division multiple access (PDMA) is proposed. At the transmitter, pattern mapping utilizes power allocation to improve the overall sum rate, and beam allocation to enhance…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-01-10 Yanxiang Jiang , Peng Li , Zhiguo Ding , Fuchun Zheng , Miaoli Ma , Xiaohu You

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…

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