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Surviving the Edge: Federated Learning under Networking and Resource Constraints

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digital infrastructure

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paper
Creator:
MwaObaBenBar
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Motivated by the growing proliferation of federated learning (FL) in edge environments, we present the first systematic characterization of transport-layer breaking points in FL systems operating under conditions of highly constrained network and compute resources. Using a reproducible testbed with chaos engineering tools, we evaluate Flower under progressively degraded network conditions representative of resource-constrained deployments in Africa and similar environments. Our empirical investigation reveals a fundamental mismatch between FL's burst-idle communication pattern and standard TCP connection management. We identify precise operational boundaries: FL training catastrophically fails at 5-second one-way latency due to TCP handshake timeouts, above 50% packet loss due to buffer exhaustion, and with 90% client dropout rates. Through systematic analysis of connection patterns during training rounds, we demonstrate that FL's periodic model update bursts, separated by extended local training periods, violate the assumptions underlying default TCP configurations. To validate the significance of these findings, we show that adjusting just three TCP connection management parameters can significantly reduce training time under extreme latency, proving that transport-layer awareness is not merely beneficial but essential for FL deployment at the network edge. Our characterization methodology and findings provide practitioners with concrete thresholds for determining when standard FL deployments will fail and when advanced reliability techniques become necessary.

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Networking and Internet ArchitectureDistributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing

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