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We consider decentralized stochastic optimization with the objective function (e.g. data samples for machine learning task) being distributed over $n$ machines that can only communicate to their neighbors on a fixed communication graph. To…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-04 Anastasia Koloskova , Sebastian U. Stich , Martin Jaggi

Federated learning has emerged as a privacy-preserving technique for collaborative model training across heterogeneously distributed silos. Yet, its reliance on a single central server introduces potential bottlenecks and risks of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-06-13 Huong Nguyen , Hong-Tri Nguyen , Praveen Kumar Donta , Susanna Pirttikangas , Lauri Lovén

Enabling large-scale energy-efficient Internet-of-things (IoT) connectivity is an essential step towards realization of networked society. While legacy wide-area wireless systems are highly dependent on network-side coordination, the level…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-07-26 Amin Azari , Cicek Cavdar

The Internet of Things (IoT) is offering unprecedented observational data that are used for managing Smart City utilities. Edge and Fog gateway devices are an integral part of IoT deployments to acquire real-time data and enact controls.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-05-10 Pushkara Ravindra , Aakash Khochare , Siva Prakash Reddy , Sarthak Sharma , Prateeksha Varshney , Yogesh Simmhan

Congestion is a problem of paramount importance in resource constrained Wireless Sensor Networks, especially for large networks, where the traffic loads exceed the available capacity of the resources. Sensor nodes are prone to failure and…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Arpita Chakraborty , Srinjoy Ganguly , Mrinal Kanti Naskar , Anupam Karmakar

With the ever-increasing range of applications of Internet in Things (IoT) and sensor networks, challenges are emerging in various categories of classification tasks. Applications such as vehicular networking, UAV swarm coordination and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Andrew Nash , Dirk Pesch , Krishnendu Guha

Efficiently retrieving relevant data from massive Internet of Things (IoT) networks is essential for downstream tasks such as machine learning. This paper addresses this challenge by proposing a novel data sourcing protocol that combines…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-12 Anders E. Kalør , Petar Popovski , Kaibin Huang

We study a decentralized channel allocation problem in an ad-hoc Internet of Things network underlaying on the spectrum licensed to a primary cellular network. In the considered network, the impoverished channel sensing/probing capability…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2022-01-20 Wenbo Wang , Amir Leshem , Dusit Niyato , Zhu Han

Current IoT services include industry-oriented services, which often require objects to run more than one task. However, the exponential growth of objects in IoT poses the challenge of distributing and managing task allocation among…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-06-17 Carlos Pedroso , Yan Uehara de Moraes , Michele Nogueira , Aldri Santos

Smart shipping operations increasingly depend on collaborative AI, yet the underlying data are generated across vessels with uneven connectivity, limited backhaul, and clear commercial sensitivity. In such settings, server-coordinated FL…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Alexandros S. Kalafatelis , Nikolaos Nomikos , Vasileios Nikolakakis , Nikolaos Tsoulakos , Panagiotis Trakadas

In IoT solutions, it is usually desirable to collect data from a large number of distributed IoT sensors at a central node in the cloud for further processing. One of the main design challenges of such solutions is the high communication…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-10-04 Pooya Khandel , Amir Hossein Rassafi , Vahid Pourahmadi , Saeed Sharifian , Rong Zheng

Edge computing is a promising solution to enable low-latency IoT applications, by shifting computation from remote data centers to local devices, less powerful but closer to the end user devices. However, this creates the challenge on how…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Claudio Cicconetti , Marco Conti , Andrea Passarella

The growing complexity of Internet of Things (IoT) environments, particularly in cross-domain data sharing, presents significant security challenges. Existing data-sharing schemes often rely on computationally expensive cryptographic…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-11-15 Kexian Liu , Jianfeng Guan , Xiaolong Hu , Jianli Liu , Hongke Zhang

In the IoT era, information is more and more frequently picked up by connected smart sensors with increasing, though limited, storage, communication and computation abilities. Whether due to privacy constraints or to the structure of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Igor Colin , Aurélien Bellet , Stephan Clémençon , Joseph Salmon

Internet or things (IoT) is changing our daily life rapidly. Although new technologies are emerging everyday and expanding their influence in this rapidly growing area, many classic theories can still find their places. In this paper, we…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-03-10 Jian Li , Yun Liu , Zhenjiang Zhang , Jian Ren , Nan Zhao

Modern manufacturing systems require adaptive computing infrastructures that can respond to highly dynamic workloads and increasingly customized production demands. The compute continuum emerges as a promising solution, enabling flexible…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-09-10 Hai Dinh-Tuan , Tien Hung Nguyen , Sanjeet Raj Pandey

In this work we present a new framework for the analysis and design of randomized gossip algorithms for solving the average consensus problem. We show how classical randomized iterative methods for solving linear systems can be interpreted…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-06-04 Nicolas Loizou , Peter Richtárik

We study distributed methods for online prediction and stochastic optimization. Our approach is iterative: in each round nodes first perform local computations and then communicate in order to aggregate information and synchronize their…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-03-06 Konstantinos I. Tsianos , Michael G. Rabbat

In decentralized networks (of sensors, connected objects, etc.), there is an important need for efficient algorithms to optimize a global cost function, for instance to learn a global model from the local data collected by each computing…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-01-25 Igor Colin , Aurélien Bellet , Joseph Salmon , Stéphan Clémençon

The development of mobile communication technology, hardware, distributed computing, and artificial intelligence (AI) technology has promoted the application of edge computing in the field of heterogeneous Internet of Things (IoT). In order…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-01-09 Yixue Hao , Yiming Miao , Yuanwen Tian , Long Hu , M. Shamim Hossain , Ghulam Muhammad , Syed Umar Amin