Automatic modulation classification (AMC) serves a vital role in ensuring efficient and reliable communication services within distributed wireless networks. Recent developments have seen a surge in interest in deep neural network (DNN)-based AMC models, with Federated Learning (FL) emerging as a promising framework. Despite these advancements, the presence of various noises within the signal exerts significant challenges while optimizing models to capture salient features. Furthermore, existing FL-based AMC models commonly rely on linear aggregation strategies, which face notable difficulties in integrating locally fine-tuned parameters within practical non-IID (Independent and Identically Distributed) environments, thereby hindering optimal learning convergence. To address these challenges, we propose FedVaccine, a novel FL model aimed at improving generalizability across signals with varying noise levels by deliberately introducing a balanced level of noise. This is accomplished through our proposed harmonic noise resilience approach, which identifies an optimal noise tolerance for DNN models, thereby regulating the training process and mitigating overfitting. Additionally, FedVaccine overcomes the limitations of existing FL-based AMC models' linear aggregation by employing a split-learning strategy using structural clustering topology and local queue data structure, enabling adaptive and cumulative updates to local models. Our experimental results, including IID and non-IID datasets as well as ablation studies, confirm FedVaccine's robust performance and superiority over existing FL-based AMC approaches across different noise levels. These findings highlight FedVaccine's potential to enhance the reliability and performance of AMC systems in practical wireless network environments.

As a revolutionary generative paradigm of deep learning, generative adversarial networks (GANs) have been widely applied in various fields to synthesize realistic data. However, it is challenging for conventional GANs to synthesize raw signal data, especially in some complex cases. In this paper, we develop a novel GAN framework for radio generation called "Radio GAN". Compared to conventional methods, it benefits from three key improvements. The first is learning based on sampling points, which aims to model an underlying sampling distribution of radio signals. The second is an unrolled generator design, combined with an estimated pure signal distribution as a prior, which can greatly reduce learning difficulty and effectively improve learning precision. Finally, we present an energy-constrained optimization algorithm to achieve better training stability and convergence. Experimental results with extensive simulations demonstrate that our proposed GAN framework can effectively learn transmitter characteristics and various channel effects, thus accurately modeling for an underlying sampling distribution to synthesize radio signals of high quality.

Hierarchical Federated Learning (HFL) is a distributed machine learning paradigm tailored for multi-tiered computation architectures, which supports massive access of devices' models simultaneously. To enable efficient HFL, it is crucial to design suitable incentive mechanisms to ensure that devices actively participate in local training. However, there are few studies on incentive mechanism design for HFL. In this paper, we design two-level incentive mechanisms for the HFL with a two-tiered computing structure to encourage the participation of entities in each tier in the HFL training. In the lower-level game, we propose a coalition formation game to joint optimize the edge association and bandwidth allocation problem, and obtain efficient coalition partitions by the proposed preference rule, which can be proven to be stable by exact potential game. In the upper-level game, we design the Stackelberg game algorithm, which not only determines the optimal number of edge aggregations for edge servers to maximize their utility, but also optimize the unit reward provided for the edge aggregation performance to ensure the interests of cloud servers. Furthermore, numerical results indicate that the proposed algorithms can achieve better performance than the benchmark schemes.

The anti-interference capability of wireless links is a physical layer problem for edge computing. Although convolutional codes have inherent error correction potential due to the redundancy introduced in the data, the performance of the convolutional code is drastically degraded due to multipath effects on the channel. In this paper, we propose the use of a Hidden Markov Model (HMM) for the reconstruction of convolutional codes and decoding by the Viterbi algorithm. Furthermore, to implement soft-decision decoding, the observation of HMM is replaced by Gaussian mixture models (GMM). Our method provides superior error correction potential than the standard method because the model parameters contain channel state information (CSI). We evaluated the performance of the method compared to standard Viterbi decoding by numerical simulation. In the multipath channel, the hybrid HMM decoder can achieve a performance gain of 4.7 dB and 2 dB when using hard-decision and soft-decision decoding, respectively. The HMM decoder also achieves significant performance gains for the RSC code, suggesting that the method could be extended to turbo codes.

Network Traffic Classification (NTC) has become an important component in a wide variety of network management operations, e.g., Quality of Service (QoS) provisioning and security purposes. Machine Learning (ML) algorithms as a common approach for NTC methods can achieve reasonable accuracy and handle encrypted traffic. However, ML-based NTC techniques suffer from the shortage of labeled traffic data which is the case in many real-world applications. This study investigates the applicability of an active form of ML, called Active Learning (AL), which reduces the need for a high number of labeled examples by actively choosing the instances that should be labeled. The study first provides an overview of NTC and its fundamental challenges along with surveying the literature in the field of using ML techniques in NTC. Then, it introduces the concepts of AL, discusses it in the context of NTC, and review the literature in this field. Further, challenges and open issues in the use of AL for NTC are discussed. Additionally, as a technical survey, some experiments are conducted to show the broad applicability of AL in NTC. The simulation results show that AL can achieve high accuracy with a small amount of data.

New communication standards need to deal with machine-to-machine communications, in which users may start or stop transmitting at any time in an asynchronous manner. Thus, the number of users is an unknown and time-varying parameter that needs to be accurately estimated in order to properly recover the symbols transmitted by all users in the system. In this paper, we address the problem of joint channel parameter and data estimation in a multiuser communication channel in which the number of transmitters is not known. For that purpose, we develop the infinite factorial finite state machine model, a Bayesian nonparametric model based on the Markov Indian buffet that allows for an unbounded number of transmitters with arbitrary channel length. We propose an inference algorithm that makes use of slice sampling and particle Gibbs with ancestor sampling. Our approach is fully blind as it does not require a prior channel estimation step, prior knowledge of the number of transmitters, or any signaling information. Our experimental results, loosely based on the LTE random access channel, show that the proposed approach can effectively recover the data-generating process for a wide range of scenarios, with varying number of transmitters, number of receivers, constellation order, channel length, and signal-to-noise ratio.

Looking ahead to 2017, we've identified four distinct areas where we see new and continuing opportunities. Bots is an area where we see significant growth and opportunity in creating a much more personalized content experience for end users. As AI and cognitive technologies mature, integration into the basic fabric of the Bot will enable the delivery of personalized and informative content and when combined with cognitive communications, the conversation can easily escalate and move from'automation' to'live support,' and enhance the end user experience to deliver/route the conversation via the best and most appropriate channel (text, voice, video, etc.). "Carriers will also have to add new features and services, such as EVS (Enhanced Voices Services), to keep their customer base from switching" Cognitive technology is another area where we see growth and significant developments. On the back of Unified Communications and Collaboration (UC&C) rapidly entering the business/enterprise environment, employees are now utilizing tools to ensure they have instant access to their content, co-workers and customers.