DCT-based air interface design for function computation

With the integration of communication and computing, it is expected that part of the computing is transferred to the transmitter side. In this paper we address the general problem of Frequency Modulation (FM) for function approximation through a communication channel. We exploit the benefits of the...

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Autores: Martínez Gost, Marc|||0000-0003-0070-6807, Pérez Neira, Ana Isabel|||0000-0003-4281-3934, Lagunas Hernandez, Miguel A.|||0000-0003-3338-244X
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2023
País:España
Institución:Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC)
Repositorio:UPCommons. Portal del coneixement obert de la UPC
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:upcommons.upc.edu:2117/386034
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/2117/386034
https://dx.doi.org/10.1109/OJSP.2023.3241584
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Wireless sensor networks
Task-oriented communication
Joint communication and computing
Over-the-air computing (AirComp)
WSN
Xarxes de sensors sense fils
Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Enginyeria de la telecomunicació::Processament del senyal
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Sumario:With the integration of communication and computing, it is expected that part of the computing is transferred to the transmitter side. In this paper we address the general problem of Frequency Modulation (FM) for function approximation through a communication channel. We exploit the benefits of the Discrete Cosine Transform (DCT) to approximate the function and design the waveform. In front of other approximation schemes, the DCT uses basis of controlled dynamic, which is a desirable property for a practical implementation. Furthermore, the proposed modulation allows to recover both the measurement and the function in a single transmission. Our experiments show that this scheme outperforms the double side-band (DSB) modulation in terms of mean squared error (MSE). This can also be implemented with an agnostic receiver, in which the function is unknown to the receiver. Finally, the proposed modulation is compatible with some of the existing transmission technologies for sensor networks.