Joint Optimization for Federated Learning and Transmission over Unreliable Wireless Networks with Heterogeneous Data
In wireless federated learning (FL), data heterogeneity and multiple local updates induce client drift, degrading model convergence. It is further affected by unreliable wireless links, as transmission errors may invalidate model updates. To address these challenges, we propose a federated random walk averaging (FedRW) framework, which is a variant of federated averaging (FedAvg) that mitigates data heterogeneity by updating models along random walk (RW) paths and aggregating them at the server. Model parameters are transmitted in packets with retransmission support to improve training quality by mitigating wireless errors along RW paths. Meanwhile, wireless transmission delays hinder the...
| Authors | Changheng Wang, Xianchao Zhang, Zhiqing Wei et al. |
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| Primary category | cs.DC |
| Published | 13 September 2026 |
| Last updated at source | 13 September 2026 |
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