Caching Techniques for Reducing the Communication Cost of Federated Learning in IoT Environments

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2507.17772v1
• Date: Sat, 19 Jul 2025 17:02:15 GMT
• Title: Caching Techniques for Reducing the Communication Cost of Federated Learning in IoT Environments
• Authors: Ahmad Alhonainy, Praveen Rao,
• Abstract summary: Federated Learning (FL) allows multiple devices to jointly train a shared model without centralizing data.<n>This paper introduces caching strategies - FIFO, LRU, and Priority-Based - to reduce unnecessary model update transmissions.
• Score: 2.942616054218564
• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Federated Learning (FL) allows multiple distributed devices to jointly train a shared model without centralizing data, but communication cost remains a major bottleneck, especially in resource-constrained environments. This paper introduces caching strategies - FIFO, LRU, and Priority-Based - to reduce unnecessary model update transmissions. By selectively forwarding significant updates, our approach lowers bandwidth usage while maintaining model accuracy. Experiments on CIFAR-10 and medical datasets show reduced communication with minimal accuracy loss. Results confirm that intelligent caching improves scalability, memory efficiency, and supports reliable FL in edge IoT networks, making it practical for deployment in smart cities, healthcare, and other latency-sensitive applications.

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