Title
Optimization of User Selection and Bandwidth Allocation for Federated Learning in VLC/RF Systems
Abstract
Limited radio frequency (RF) resources restrict the number of users that can participate in federated learning (FL) thus affecting FL convergence speed and performance. In this paper, we first introduce visible light communication (VLC) as a supplement to RF in FL and build a hybrid VLC/RF communication system, in which each indoor user can use both VLC and RF to transmit its FL model parameters. Then, the problem of user selection and bandwidth allocation is studied for FL implemented over a hybrid VLC/RF system aiming to optimize the FL performance. The problem is first separated into two subproblems. The first subproblem is a user selection problem with a given bandwidth allocation, which is solved by a traversal algorithm. The second subproblem is a bandwidth allocation problem with a given user selection, which is solved by a numerical method. The final user selection and bandwidth allocation are obtained by iteratively solving these two subproblems. Simulation results show that the proposed FL algorithm that efficiently uses VLC and RF for FL model transmission can improve the prediction accuracy by up to 10% compared with a conventional FL system using only RF.
Year
DOI
Venue
2021
10.1109/WCNC49053.2021.9417407
2021 IEEE WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS AND NETWORKING CONFERENCE (WCNC)
DocType
ISSN
Citations 
Conference
1525-3511
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Chuanhong Liu100.68
Caili Guo22613.86
Yang Yang33428.39
Mingzhe Chen459544.32
H. V. Poor5254111951.66
Shuguang Cui65382368.45