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Coded computation is a framework which provides redundancy in distributed computing systems to speed up largescale tasks. Although most existing works assume an error-free scenarios in a master-worker setup, the link failures are common in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-01-14 Dong-Jun Han , Jy-yong Sohn , Jaekyun Moon

Constellation shaping is an energy-efficient strategy involving the transmission of lower-energy signals more frequently than higher-energy signals. Previous work has shown that shaping is particularly effective when used with coded…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-10-18 Xingyu Xiang , Matthew C. Valenti

In cognitive radio networks, spectrum sensing is a crucial technique to discover spectrum opportunities for the Secondary Users (SUs). The quality of spectrum sensing is evaluated by both sensing accuracy and sensing efficiency. Here,…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2013-04-23 Yi Liu , Shengli Xie , Rong Yu , Yan Zhang , Chau Yuen

Orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) is one of the most widely adopted waveforms for integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) systems, owing to its high spectral efficiency and compatibility with modern communication…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-16 Kawon Han , Kaitao Meng , Alexandra Chatzicharistou , Christos Masouros

In this paper, we consider the finite-state multiple access channel (MAC) with partially cooperative encoders and delayed channel state information (CSI). Here partial cooperation refers to the communication between the encoders via…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Ziv Goldfeld , Haim H. Permuter , Benjamin M. Zaidel

This work investigates functional source coding problems with maximal distortion, motivated by approximate function computation in many modern applications. The maximal distortion treats imprecise reconstruction of a function value as good…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-12-29 Sourya Basu , Daewon Seo , Lav R. Varshney

Computation codes in network information theory are designed for the scenarios where the decoder is not interested in recovering the information sources themselves, but only a function thereof. K\"orner and Marton showed for distributed…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-07-28 Jingge Zhu , Sung Hoon Lim , Michael Gastpar

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

Cooperative multicast is an effective solution to address the bottleneck problem of single-hop broadcast in wireless networks. By incorporating with the random linear network coding technique, the existing schemes can reduce the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2012-09-19 Fei Wu , Cunqing Hua , Hangguan Shan , Aiping Huang

In this paper, the performance of signaling strategies with high peak-to-average power ratio is analyzed over both coherent and noncoherent fading channels. Two modulation schemes, namely on-off phase-shift keying (OOPSK) and on-off…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-12-21 Mustafa Cenk Gursoy

Slow working nodes, known as stragglers, can greatly reduce the speed of distributed computation. Coded matrix multiplication is a recently introduced technique that enables straggler-resistant distributed multiplication of large matrices.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-07-23 Shahrzad Kiani , Nuwan Ferdinand , Stark C. Draper

We present a systematic, algebraically based, design methodology for efficient implementation of computer programs optimized over multiple levels of the processor/memory and network hierarchy. Using a common formalism to describe the…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2008-03-18 Lenore R. Mullin , James E. Raynolds

A novel Gamma-distributed geometric constellation design framework for integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) is proposed in this paper. In this framework, constellation points are modeled as samples drawn from a parameterized…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-27 Amirhossein Keshavarzchafjiri , Janith K. Dassanayake , Gayan A. Aruma Baduge , Mojtaba Vaezi

This paper considers the problem of lossy compression for the computation of a function of two correlated sources, both of which are observed at the encoder. Due to presence of observation costs, the encoder is allowed to observe only…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-07-22 Xi Liu , Osvaldo Simeone , Elza Erkip

In data driven deep learning, distributed sensing and joint computing bring heavy load for computing and communication. To face the challenge, over-the-air computation (OAC) has been proposed for multi-sensor data aggregation, which enables…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-04 Mingjun Du , Sihui Zheng , Xiao-Ping Zhang , Yuhan Dong

Over-the-air computation (AirComp) provides a promising way to support ultrafast aggregation of distributed data. However, its performance cannot be guaranteed in long-distance transmission due to the distortion induced by the channel…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-26 Min Fu , Yong Zhou , Yuanming Shi , Ting Wang , Wei Chen

The implementation of the \ac{isac} feature in \ac{6g} networks is most likely to be based on the framework of \ac{ofdm}. Input distribution design, or constellation design, is a crucial technique in \ac{ofdm}-\ac{isac} systems enabling a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-30 Weijiang Zhao , Yifeng Xiong

We study schemes and lower bounds for distributed minimax statistical estimation over a Gaussian multiple-access channel (MAC) under squared error loss, in a framework combining statistical estimation and wireless communication. First, we…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-03-09 Chuan-Zheng Lee , Leighton Pate Barnes , Ayfer Ozgur

Distributed optimization concerns the optimization of a common function in a distributed network, which finds a wide range of applications ranging from machine learning to vehicle platooning. Its key operation is to aggregate all local…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-04-15 Zhenyi Lin , Yi Gong , Kaibin Huang

6G communications systems are expected to integrate radar-like sensing capabilities enabling novel use cases. However, integrated sensing and communications (ISAC) introduces a trade-off between communications and sensing performance…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-22 Benedikt Geiger , Fan Liu , Shihang Lu , Andrej Rode , Laurent Schmalen