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AI-native 6G networks are envisioned to tightly embed artificial intelligence (AI) into the wireless ecosystem, enabling real-time, personalized, and privacy-preserving intelligence at the edge. A foundational pillar of this vision is…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Shaba Shaon , Md Raihan Uddin , Dinh C. Nguyen , Seyyedali Hosseinalipour , Dusit Niyato , Octavia A. Dobre

Recently, the rapid development of LEO satellite networks spurs another widespread concern-data processing at satellites. However, achieving efficient computation at LEO satellites in highly dynamic satellite networks is challenging and…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-04-21 Jiasheng Wu , Jingjing Zhang , Zheng Lin , Zhe Chen , Xiong Wang , Wenjun Zhu , Yue Gao

Quantum Federated Learning (QFL) promises to revolutionize distributed machine learning by combining the computational power of quantum devices with collaborative model training. Yet, privacy of both data and models remains a critical…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-04 Dev Gurung , Shiva Raj Pokhrel

Secure aggregation is a common technique in federated learning (FL) for protecting data privacy from both curious internal entities (clients or server) and external adversaries (eavesdroppers). However, in dynamic and resource-constrained…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-08-20 Mohamed Elmahallawy , Tie Luo

Satellite technologies have advanced drastically in recent years, leading to a heated interest in launching small satellites into low Earth orbit (LEOs) to collect massive data such as satellite imagery. Downloading these data to a ground…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Mohamed Elmahallawy , Tie Luo , Mohamed I. Ibrahem

Quantum federated learning (QFL) is a novel framework that integrates the advantages of classical federated learning (FL) with the computational power of quantum technologies. This includes quantum computing and quantum machine learning…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Mahdi Chehimi , Samuel Yen-Chi Chen , Walid Saad , Don Towsley , Mérouane Debbah

Federated learning (FL) is a type of distributed machine learning at the wireless edge that preserves the privacy of clients' data from adversaries and even the central server. Existing federated learning approaches either use (i) secure…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-30 Raphael Pinard , Mitra Hassani , Wayne Lemieux

Federated Learning (FL) enables privacy-preserving intelligence on Internet of Things (IoT) devices but incurs a significant carbon footprint due to the high energy cost of frequent uplink transmission. While pre-trained models are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Charuka Herath , Yogachandran Rahulamathavan , Varuna De Silva , Sangarapillai Lambotharan

Quantum federated learning (QFL) is emerging as a key enabler for intelligent, secure, and privacy-preserving model training in next-generation 6G networks. By leveraging the computational advantages of quantum devices, QFL offers…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-12 Dinh C. Nguyen , Md Bokhtiar Al Zami , Ratun Rahman , Shaba Shaon , Tuy Tan Nguyen , Fatemeh Afghah

Quantum Federated Learning (QFL) is an emerging paradigm that combines quantum computing and federated learning (FL) to enable decentralized model training while maintaining data privacy over quantum networks. However, quantum noise remains…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-18 Ratun Rahman , Atit Pokharel , Dinh C. Nguyen

Distributed training of machine learning models directly on satellites in low Earth orbit (LEO) is considered. Based on a federated learning (FL) algorithm specifically targeted at the unique challenges of the satellite scenario, we design…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-07 Nasrin Razmi , Bho Matthiesen , Armin Dekorsy , Petar Popovski

While network coverage maps continue to expand, many devices located in remote areas remain unconnected to terrestrial communication infrastructures, preventing them from getting access to the associated data-driven services. In this paper,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Dong-Jun Han , Seyyedali Hosseinalipour , David J. Love , Mung Chiang , Christopher G. Brinton

The emergence of mega-constellations of interconnected satellites has a major impact on the integration of cellular wireless and non-terrestrial networks, while simultaneously offering previously inconceivable data gathering capabilities.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Nasrin Razmi , Bho Matthiesen , Armin Dekorsy , Petar Popovski

Increasing privacy and security concerns in intelligence-native 6G networks require quantum key distribution-secured federated learning (QKD-FL), in which data owners connected via quantum channels can train an FL global model…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-08-31 Rakpong Kaewpuang , Minrui Xu , Dusit Niyato , Han Yu , Zehui Xiong , Xuemin Sherman Shen

Collaborative threat intelligence via federated learning (FL) faces critical risks from quantum computing, which can compromise classical encryption methods. This study proposes a quantum-secure FL framework using post-quantum cryptography…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Prabhudarshi Nayak , Gogulakrishnan Thiyagarajan , Ritunsa Mishra , Vinay Bist

Low Earth Orbit (LEO) mega-constellations extend the cloud-to-edge continuum into space, enabling satellite edge computing. However, Federated Learning (FL) in this environment is fundamentally energy-constrained due to dynamic…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Nan Yang , Bahman Javadi , Rodrigo Neves Calheiros , David Boland , Philip Leong

In Low Earth Orbit (LEO) mega constellations, there are relevant use cases, such as inference based on satellite imaging, in which a large number of satellites collaboratively train a machine learning model without sharing their local…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-06 Nasrin Razmi , Bho Matthiesen , Armin Dekorsy , Petar Popovski

In the ambitious realm of space AI, the integration of federated learning (FL) with low Earth orbit (LEO) satellite constellations holds immense promise. However, many challenges persist in terms of feasibility, learning efficiency, and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Mohamed Elmahallawy , Tie Luo

Federated learning (FL) provides an emerging approach for collaboratively training semantic encoder/decoder models of semantic communication systems, without private user data leaving the devices. Most existing studies on trustworthy FL aim…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-02-02 Gaolei Li , Yuanyuan Zhao , Yi Li

Quantum federated learning (QFL) has recently emerged as a promising paradigm for privacy-preserving collaborative learning, yet most existing studies focus on horizontal federated learning and ignore the vertical federated learning (VFL),…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-24 Hao Luo , Zhiyuan Zhai , Qianli Zhou , Jun Qi , Yong Deng , Xin Wang