Research Projects

Decentralized Federated Learning in Mobile Networks

Resolving Mobility-Induced Catastrophic Forgetting in DFL under mobile wireless networks

Deep Learning Based 2D Direction of Arrival Estimation using L-shaped Arrays
  • Resolving catastrophic forgetting caused by mobile client departure from the neighborhood.
  • Utilizing Synthetic Sample Distillation and Enriched Knowledge Distillation through Relayed Mobile Caching Mechanism.

Mobility-Assisted Decentralized Federated Learning: Convergence Analysis and A Data Driven Approach

Deep Learning Based 2D Direction of Arrival Estimation using L-shaped Arrays
  • Investigating the impact of mobility on Decentralized Federated Learning (DFL) systems.
  • Deriving onvergence analysis for DFL systems under wireless mobile networks and establishing convergence guarantees.
  • Designing a mobility-aware DFL framework to combat network sparsity and data heterogeneity.

Publication: R. Jahani, M. F. Reza and H. Dai, "Mobility-Assisted Decentralized Federated Learning: Convergence Analysis and a Data-Driven Approach," in IEEE Transactions on Cognitive Communications and Networking, vol. 12, pp. 11856-11871, 2026, doi: 10.1109/TCCN.2026.3720485.

Distribution-Aware Mobility Assisted Decentralized Federated Learning

Deep Learning Based 2D Direction of Arrival Estimation using L-shaped Arrays
  • Developing heterogeneity-aware trajectories for DFL under mobile wireless networks to resolve the performance degradation under data heterogeneity.

Publication: M. F. Reza, R. Jahani, R. Jin and H. Dai, "Distribution-Aware Mobility-Assisted Decentralized Federated Learning," ICASSP 2026 - 2026 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Barcelona, Spain, 2026, pp. 3891-3895, doi: 10.1109/ICASSP55912.2026.11464700.

Deep Learning Based 2D Direction of Arrival Estimation using L-shaped Arrays