Blind Federated Learning via Over-the-Air q-QAM
2024 (English)In: IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, ISSN 1536-1276, E-ISSN 1558-2248, Vol. 23, no 12, p. 19570-19586Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]
In this work, we investigate federated edge learning over a fading multiple access channel. To alleviate the communication burden between the edge devices and the access point, we introduce a pioneering digital over-the-air computation strategy employing q-ary quadrature amplitude modulation, culminating in a low latency communication scheme. Indeed, we propose a new federated edge learning framework in which edge devices use digital modulation for over-the-air uplink transmission to the edge server while they have no access to the channel state information. Furthermore, we incorporate multiple antennas at the edge server to overcome the fading inherent in wireless communication. We analyze the number of antennas required to mitigate the fading impact effectively. We prove a non-asymptotic upper bound for the mean squared error for the proposed federated learning with digital over-the-air uplink transmissions under both noisy and fading conditions. Leveraging the derived upper bound, we characterize the convergence rate of the learning process of a non-convex loss function in terms of the mean square error of gradients due to the fading channel. Furthermore, we substantiate the theoretical assurances through numerical experiments concerning mean square error and the convergence efficacy of the digital federated edge learning framework. Notably, the results demonstrate that augmenting the number of antennas at the edge server and adopting higher-order modulations improve the model accuracy up to 60%.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) , 2024. Vol. 23, no 12, p. 19570-19586
Keywords [en]
Fading channels, Wireless networks, Data models, Computational modeling, Antennas, Quadrature amplitude modulation, Convergence, Servers, Numerical models, Blind federated learning, digital modulation, federated edge learning, over-the-air computation
National Category
Communication Systems
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-358611DOI: 10.1109/TWC.2024.3485117ISI: 001376014400022Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85208252412OAI: oai:DiVA.org:kth-358611DiVA, id: diva2:1929383
Note
Not duplicate with DiVA 1808256
QC 20250120
2025-01-202025-01-202025-01-20Bibliographically approved