Over-the-Air Goal-Oriented Communications

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2512.20533v1
• Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2025 17:24:39 GMT
• Title: Over-the-Air Goal-Oriented Communications
• Authors: Kyriakos Stylianopoulos, Paolo Di Lorenzo, George C. Alexandropoulos,
• Abstract summary: This chapter demonstrates that the wireless channel can be used to perform computations over the data, when equipped with programmable metasurfaces.<n>The end-to-end system of the TX, RX, and MS-based channel is treated as a single deep neural network which is trained through backpropagation to perform inference on unseen data.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Goal-oriented communications offer an attractive alternative to the Shannon-based communication paradigm, where the data is never reconstructed at the Receiver (RX) side. Rather, focusing on the case of edge inference, the Transmitter (TX) and the RX cooperate to exchange features of the input data that will be used to predict an unseen attribute of them, leveraging information from collected data sets. This chapter demonstrates that the wireless channel can be used to perform computations over the data, when equipped with programmable metasurfaces. The end-to-end system of the TX, RX, and MS-based channel is treated as a single deep neural network which is trained through backpropagation to perform inference on unseen data. Using Stacked Intelligent Metasurfaces (SIM), it is shown that this Metasurfaces-Integrated Neural Network (MINN) can achieve performance comparable to fully digital neural networks under various system parameters and data sets. By offloading computations onto the channel itself, important benefits may be achieved in terms of energy consumption, arising from reduced computations at the transceivers and smaller transmission power required for successful inference.

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