ISAC for AI: A Trade-off Framework Across Data Acquisition and Transfer in Federated Learning

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Main Authors: Jiang, Lai, Meng, Kaitao, Temiz, Murat, Masouros, Christos
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author Jiang, Lai
Meng, Kaitao
Temiz, Murat
Masouros, Christos
author_facet Jiang, Lai
Meng, Kaitao
Temiz, Murat
Masouros, Christos
contents In this paper, we propose a resource allocation framework for federated learning (FL) in integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) systems, where we consider not only the reliability of model transfer through communication, but also the quality of data acquisition through sensing in the first place. Unlike existing works that assume training data is pre-collected or only impose a fixed sensing signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) threshold to reflect data quality, we explicitly characterize the relationship between sensing data quality (measured by sensing SNR), dataset size, and the upload reliability in FL training, and exploit this relationship to allocate resources between sensing and communication under a shared energy budget. This is non-trivial due to the intricate coupling among sensing data quality, transmission reliability, and communication resource allocation; nevertheless, it enables a principled joint optimization framework that directly enhances learning performance. Specifically, we derive a closed-form convergence upper bound that quantifies the joint impact of these factors on the FL optimality gap. Utilizing this upper bound, the original intractable optimization problem can be reformulated into a tractable resource allocation problem that jointly optimizes the sensing transmit power, number of sensing snapshots, and communication transmit power at each device subject to individual energy budget constraints. To solve the reformulated problem, we propose a two-layer optimization algorithm with linear complexity, where the outer layer employs golden section search and the inner layer solves per-device subproblems with closed-form solutions.
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spellingShingle ISAC for AI: A Trade-off Framework Across Data Acquisition and Transfer in Federated Learning
Jiang, Lai
Meng, Kaitao
Temiz, Murat
Masouros, Christos
Signal Processing
In this paper, we propose a resource allocation framework for federated learning (FL) in integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) systems, where we consider not only the reliability of model transfer through communication, but also the quality of data acquisition through sensing in the first place. Unlike existing works that assume training data is pre-collected or only impose a fixed sensing signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) threshold to reflect data quality, we explicitly characterize the relationship between sensing data quality (measured by sensing SNR), dataset size, and the upload reliability in FL training, and exploit this relationship to allocate resources between sensing and communication under a shared energy budget. This is non-trivial due to the intricate coupling among sensing data quality, transmission reliability, and communication resource allocation; nevertheless, it enables a principled joint optimization framework that directly enhances learning performance. Specifically, we derive a closed-form convergence upper bound that quantifies the joint impact of these factors on the FL optimality gap. Utilizing this upper bound, the original intractable optimization problem can be reformulated into a tractable resource allocation problem that jointly optimizes the sensing transmit power, number of sensing snapshots, and communication transmit power at each device subject to individual energy budget constraints. To solve the reformulated problem, we propose a two-layer optimization algorithm with linear complexity, where the outer layer employs golden section search and the inner layer solves per-device subproblems with closed-form solutions.
title ISAC for AI: A Trade-off Framework Across Data Acquisition and Transfer in Federated Learning
topic Signal Processing
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.11915