Resource Allocation Based on Digital Twin-enabled Federated Learning Framework in Heterogeneous Cellular Network

Authors

Yejun He, College of Electronics and Information Engineering, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, China
Mengna Yang, College of Electronics and Information Engineering, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, China
Zhou He, School of Mechanical Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA
Mohsen Guizani, Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial IntelligenceFollow

Document Type

Article

Publication Title

IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology

Abstract

Federated learning (FL) allows user devices (UDs) to upload local model parameters to participate in a global model training, which protects UDs' data privacy. Nevertheless, FL still faces challenges such as core network congestion, UDs' limited resources and less efficient mapping between devices and cyber systems. Therefore, in this paper, we integrate the digital twin (DT) and the mobile edge computing (MEC) technologies into a hierarchical FL framework in the heterogeneous cellular network scenario. When the UDs are not in the service range of the small base stations (SBSs), the framework allows macro base stations to assist UDs' local computation, thus reducing the transmission delay. It also protects the user privacy and allows more users to join in the training in order to improve the FL accuracy. In addition, we propose a deep reinforcement learning-based scheme to solve the joint optimization problem of dynamic UDs-stations association and resource allocation, thereby minimizing the energy consumption within a limited time delay. Simulation results show that our proposed scheme not only effectively reduces the task transmission failure rate and energy consumption compared with the baseline scheme, but also saves the communication cost through the DT network. IEEE

First Page

1

Last Page

10

DOI

10.1109/TVT.2022.3205778

Publication Date

9-12-2022

Keywords

Data models, Delays, digital twin (DT), Federated learning, heterogeneous cellular network, mobile edge computing (MEC), Optimization, resource allocation, Resource management, Servers, Task analysis, Training

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Y. He, M. Yang, Z. He and M. Guizani, "Resource Allocation Based on Digital Twin-enabled Federated Learning Framework in Heterogeneous Cellular Network," in IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, 2022, doi: 10.1109/TVT.2022.3205778.