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Main Authors: Wang, Zhixu, Yao, Jiacheng, Xu, Wei, Shi, Wei, Huang, Kaibin
Format: Preprint
Published: 2025
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.24788
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author Wang, Zhixu
Yao, Jiacheng
Xu, Wei
Shi, Wei
Huang, Kaibin
author_facet Wang, Zhixu
Yao, Jiacheng
Xu, Wei
Shi, Wei
Huang, Kaibin
contents To overcome inherent limitations of analog signals in over-the-air computation (AirComp), this letter proposes a two's complement-based coding scheme for the AirComp implementation with compatible digital modulations. Specifically, quantized discrete values are encoded into binary sequences using the two's complement and transmitted over multiple subcarriers. At the receiver, we design a decoder that constructs a functional mapping between the superimposed digital modulation signals and the target of computational results, theoretically ensuring asymptotic error free computation with the minimal codeword length. To further mitigate the adverse effects of channel fading, we adopt a truncated inversion strategy for pre-processing. Benefiting from the unified symbol distribution after the proposed encoding, we derive the optimal linear minimum mean squared error (LMMSE) detector in closed form and propose a low complexity algorithm seeking for the optimal truncation selection. Furthermore, the inherent importance differences among the coded outputs motivate an uneven power allocation strategy across subcarriers to improve computational accuracy. Numerical results validate the superiority of the proposed scheme over existing digital AirComp approaches, especially at low signal to-noise ratio (SNR) regimes.
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spellingShingle Digitalizing Over-the-Air Computation via The Novel Complement Coded Modulation
Wang, Zhixu
Yao, Jiacheng
Xu, Wei
Shi, Wei
Huang, Kaibin
Signal Processing
To overcome inherent limitations of analog signals in over-the-air computation (AirComp), this letter proposes a two's complement-based coding scheme for the AirComp implementation with compatible digital modulations. Specifically, quantized discrete values are encoded into binary sequences using the two's complement and transmitted over multiple subcarriers. At the receiver, we design a decoder that constructs a functional mapping between the superimposed digital modulation signals and the target of computational results, theoretically ensuring asymptotic error free computation with the minimal codeword length. To further mitigate the adverse effects of channel fading, we adopt a truncated inversion strategy for pre-processing. Benefiting from the unified symbol distribution after the proposed encoding, we derive the optimal linear minimum mean squared error (LMMSE) detector in closed form and propose a low complexity algorithm seeking for the optimal truncation selection. Furthermore, the inherent importance differences among the coded outputs motivate an uneven power allocation strategy across subcarriers to improve computational accuracy. Numerical results validate the superiority of the proposed scheme over existing digital AirComp approaches, especially at low signal to-noise ratio (SNR) regimes.
title Digitalizing Over-the-Air Computation via The Novel Complement Coded Modulation
topic Signal Processing
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.24788