A Uniform-Forcing Transceiver Design for Over-the-Air Function Computation

The future Internet-of-Things network is expected to connect billions of sensors, which incurs high latency for data aggregation. To overcome this challenge, a new technique called over-the-air function computation was recently developed to enable fusion center to receive a desired function directly...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Published in:IEEE wireless communications letters Vol. 7; no. 6; pp. 942 - 945
Main Authors: Chen, Li, Qin, Xiaowei, Wei, Guo
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: Piscataway IEEE 01.12.2018
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subjects:
Complexity theory
Computation
Computer simulation
Convexity
Data management
Error analysis
Function computation
IoT
Optimization
Receivers
Semidefinite programming
Sensors
Superposition (mathematics)
transceiver design
Transceivers
Wireless communication
Wireless sensor networks
ISSN:2162-2337, 2162-2345
Online Access:Get full text
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
Description
Summary:The future Internet-of-Things network is expected to connect billions of sensors, which incurs high latency for data aggregation. To overcome this challenge, a new technique called over-the-air function computation was recently developed to enable fusion center to receive a desired function directly. It utilizes the superposition property of wireless channel to realize the uniform summation of the desired function. In order to compensate the non-uniform fading of different sensors, we propose a novel uniform-forcing transceiver design for over-the-air function computation. A corresponding min-max optimization problem is formulated to minimize the distortion of the computation which is measured by mean squared error. Due to the non-convexity of the problem, it is relaxed to semidefinite programming first. Then, the performance of the initial solution is improved through successive convex approximation. Simulation results show that the proposed design is able to achieve significant performance gain with low complexity.
Bibliography:ObjectType-Article-1
SourceType-Scholarly Journals-1
ObjectType-Feature-2
content type line 14
ISSN:2162-2337
2162-2345
DOI:10.1109/LWC.2018.2840157