Federated learning with over-the-air aggregation over time-varying channels

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2023-01-17

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We study federated learning (FL) with over-the-air aggregation over time-varying wireless channels. Independent workers compute local gradients based on their local datasets and send them to a parameter server (PS) through a time-varying multipath fading multiple access channel via orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM). We assume that the workers do not have channel state information, hence the PS employs multiple antennas to alleviate the fading effects. Wireless channel variations result in inter-carrier interference, which has a detrimental effect on the performance of OFDM systems, especially when the channel is rapidly varying. We examine the effects of the channel time variations on the convergence of the FL with over-the-air aggregation, and show that the resulting undesired interference terms have only limited destructive effects, which do not prevent the convergence of the learning algorithm. We also validate our results via extensive simulations, which corroborate the theoretical expectations.

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IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications

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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

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