SumComp: Coding for Digital Over-the-Air Computation via the Ring of Integers

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Main Authors: Razavikia, Saeed, Júnior, José Mairton Barros Da Silva, Fischione, Carlo
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Published: 2023
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author Razavikia, Saeed
Júnior, José Mairton Barros Da Silva
Fischione, Carlo
author_facet Razavikia, Saeed
Júnior, José Mairton Barros Da Silva
Fischione, Carlo
contents Communication and computation are traditionally treated as separate entities, allowing for individual optimizations. However, many applications focus on local information's functionality rather than the information itself. For such cases, harnessing interference for computation in a multiple access channel through digital over-the-air computation can notably increase the computation, as established by the ChannelComp method. However, the coding scheme originally proposed in ChannelComp may suffer from high computational complexity because it is general and is not optimized for specific modulation categories. Therefore, this study considers a specific category of digital modulations for over-the-air computations, QAM and PAM, for which we introduce a novel coding scheme called SumComp. Furthermore, we derive an MSE analysis for SumComp coding in the computation of the arithmetic mean function and establish an upper bound on the MAE for a set of nomographic functions. Simulation results affirm the superior performance of SumComp coding compared to traditional analog over-the-air computation and the original coding in ChannelComp approaches regarding both MSE and MAE over a noisy multiple access channel. Specifically, SumComp coding shows approximately $10$ dB improvements for computing arithmetic and geometric mean on the normalized MSE for low noise scenarios.
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spellingShingle SumComp: Coding for Digital Over-the-Air Computation via the Ring of Integers
Razavikia, Saeed
Júnior, José Mairton Barros Da Silva
Fischione, Carlo
Information Theory
Communication and computation are traditionally treated as separate entities, allowing for individual optimizations. However, many applications focus on local information's functionality rather than the information itself. For such cases, harnessing interference for computation in a multiple access channel through digital over-the-air computation can notably increase the computation, as established by the ChannelComp method. However, the coding scheme originally proposed in ChannelComp may suffer from high computational complexity because it is general and is not optimized for specific modulation categories. Therefore, this study considers a specific category of digital modulations for over-the-air computations, QAM and PAM, for which we introduce a novel coding scheme called SumComp. Furthermore, we derive an MSE analysis for SumComp coding in the computation of the arithmetic mean function and establish an upper bound on the MAE for a set of nomographic functions. Simulation results affirm the superior performance of SumComp coding compared to traditional analog over-the-air computation and the original coding in ChannelComp approaches regarding both MSE and MAE over a noisy multiple access channel. Specifically, SumComp coding shows approximately $10$ dB improvements for computing arithmetic and geometric mean on the normalized MSE for low noise scenarios.
title SumComp: Coding for Digital Over-the-Air Computation via the Ring of Integers
topic Information Theory
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.20504