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An Overview on Over-the-Air Federated Edge Learning

2024; Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers; Volume: 31; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1109/mwc.005.2300016

1558-0687

Xiaowen Cao, Zhonghao Lyu, Guangxu Zhu, Jie Xu, Lexi Xu, Shuguang Cui,

Privacy-Preserving Technologies in Data

Over-the-air federated edge learning (Air-FEEL) has emerged as a promising solution to support edge artificial intelligence (AI) in future, beyond 5G (B5G) and 6G networks. In Air-FEEL, distributed edge devices use their local data to collaboratively train AI models while preserving data privacy, in which the over-the-air model/gradient aggregation is exploited for enhancing the learning efficiency. This article provides an overview of the Air-FEEL state-of-the-art. First, we present the basic principle of Air-FEEL, and introduce the technical challenges for Air-FEEL design due to the over-the-air aggregation errors as well as the resource and data heterogeneities at edge devices. Next, we present the fundamental performance metrics for Air-FEEL, and review resource management solutions and design considerations for enhancing the Air-FEEL performance. Finally, several interesting research directions are pointed out to motivate future work.