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We study opportunistic scheduling and the sum capacity of cellular networks with a full-duplex multi-antenna base station and a large number of single-antenna half-duplex users. Simultaneous uplink and downlink over the same band results in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Can Karakus , Suhas Diggavi

Federated learning (FL) is a distributed learning methodology that allows multiple nodes to cooperatively train a deep learning model, without the need to share their local data. It is a promising solution for telemonitoring systems that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-15 Alaa Awad Abdellatif , Naram Mhaisen , Amr Mohamed , Aiman Erbad , Mohsen Guizani , Zaher Dawy , Wassim Nasreddine

Wirelessly connected devices can collaborately train a machine learning model using federated learning, where the aggregation of model updates occurs using over-the-air computation. Carrier frequency offset caused by imprecise clocks in…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-17 Martin Dahl , Erik G. Larsson

This paper studies the joint device selection and power control scheme for wireless federated learning (FL), considering both the downlink and uplink communications between the parameter server (PS) and the terminal devices. In each round…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-05-20 Wei Guo , Ran Li , Chuan Huang , Xiaoqi Qin , Kaiming Shen , Wei Zhang

As the demand grows for scalable and privacy-aware AI systems, Federated Learning (FL) has emerged as a promising solution, allowing decentralized model training without moving raw data. At the same time, the combination of high-performance…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Sangam Ghimire , Paribartan Timalsina , Nirjal Bhurtel , Bishal Neupane , Bigyan Byanju Shrestha , Subarna Bhattarai , Prajwal Gaire , Jessica Thapa , Sudan Jha

In this paper, we study the fundamental limits of hierarchical secure aggregation under unreliable communication. We consider a hierarchical network where each client connects to multiple relays, and both client-to-relay and relay-to-server…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Shudi Weng , Xiang Zhang , Yizhou Zhao , Giuseppe Caire , Ming Xiao , Mikael Skoglund

Federated Learning (FL) algorithms commonly sample a random subset of clients to address the straggler issue and improve communication efficiency. While recent works have proposed various client sampling methods, they have limitations in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-15 Jiaxiang Geng , Yanzhao Hou , Xiaofeng Tao , Juncheng Wang , Bing Luo

In recent years, over-the-air aggregation has been widely considered in large-scale distributed learning, optimization, and sensing. In this paper, we propose the over-the-air federated policy gradient algorithm, where all agents…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-27 Huiwen Yang , Lingying Huang , Subhrakanti Dey , Ling Shi

Federated learning (FL) is a powerful distributed machine learning framework where a server aggregates models trained by different clients without accessing their private data. Hierarchical FL, with a client-edge-cloud aggregation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-10 Lumin Liu , Jun Zhang , Shenghui Song , Khaled B. Letaief

The conventional FL methods face critical challenges in realistic wireless edge networks, where training data is both limited and heterogeneous, often leading to unstable training and poor generalization. To address these challenges in a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-09 Jun-Pyo Hong , Hyowoon Seo , Kisong Lee

Under the organization of the base station (BS), wireless federated learning (FL) enables collaborative model training among multiple devices. However, the BS is merely responsible for aggregating local updates during the training process,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-10-05 Jingheng Zheng , Wanli Ni , Hui Tian , Deniz Gunduz , Tony Q. S. Quek , Zhu Han

Although federated learning has achieved many breakthroughs recently, the heterogeneous nature of the learning environment greatly limits its performance and hinders its real-world applications. The heterogeneous data, time-varying wireless…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-22 Jingxin Li , Toktam Mahmoodi , Hak-Keung Lam

Hierarchical federated learning (HFL) has demonstrated promising scalability advantages over the traditional "star-topology" architecture-based federated learning (FL). However, HFL still imposes significant computation, communication, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Wenzhi Fang , Dong-Jun Han , Christopher G. Brinton

Personalized Federated Learning (PFL) is a new Federated Learning (FL) paradigm, particularly tackling the heterogeneity issues brought by various mobile user equipments (UEs) in mobile edge computing (MEC) networks. However, due to the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-23 Chaoqun You , Kun Guo , Howard H. Yang , Tony Q. S. Quek

Statistical heterogeneity of clients' local data is an important characteristic in federated learning, motivating personalized algorithms tailored to the local data statistics. Though there has been a plethora of algorithms proposed for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-27 Kaan Ozkara , Bruce Huang , Ruida Zhou , Suhas Diggavi

Federated learning has shown enormous promise as a way of training ML models in distributed environments while reducing communication costs and protecting data privacy. However, the rise of complex cyber-physical systems, such as the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-01 Omer Rana , Theodoros Spyridopoulos , Nathaniel Hudson , Matt Baughman , Kyle Chard , Ian Foster , Aftab Khan

In this paper, we consider communication-efficient over-the-air federated learning (FL), where multiple edge devices with non-independent and identically distributed datasets perform multiple local iterations in each communication round and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-29 Yinan Zou , Zixin Wang , Xu Chen , Haibo Zhou , Yong Zhou

Federated learning (FL) algorithms usually sample a fraction of clients in each round (partial participation) when the number of participants is large and the server's communication bandwidth is limited. Recent works on the convergence…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-04-23 Bing Luo , Wenli Xiao , Shiqiang Wang , Jianwei Huang , Leandros Tassiulas

Federated learning (FL) is an effective paradigm for enhancing the learning capability of edge devices while preserving data privacy. In geographically dispersed FL systems, such as sensor networks in remote areas, unmanned aerial vehicles…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Shiqian Guo , Jianqing Liu , Beatriz Lorenzo

Federated learning (FL) leverages data distributed at the edge of the network to enable intelligent applications. The efficiency of FL can be improved by using over-the-air computation (AirComp) technology in the process of gradient…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-20 Fan Zhang , Jining Chen , Kunlun Wang , Wen Chen