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Federated Variational Autoencoder and Transformers for Temporal Data Augmentation and Interference Detection in Heterogeneous 5G Networks

2025· article· en· W4414539303 on OpenAlex

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Bibliographic record

Venuenot available
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEngineering
TopicTelecommunications and Broadcasting Technologies
Canadian institutionsEricsson (Canada)
Fundersnot available
KeywordsAutoencoderRobustness (evolution)Synthetic dataData modelingLabeled dataTraining setDeep learningTransformer

Abstract

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In this paper, we address passive intermodulation (PIM) interference in heterogeneous fifth-generation (<tex xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">$\mathbf{5 G}$</tex>) networks, compounded by limited datasets and non-independent, non-identically distributed (non-IID) data across cells. Though uncommon, PIM events can significantly degrade the signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratio (SINR), making their timely detection essential. Newly deployed cells often lack sufficient PIM samples to train a PIM detector, while existing cells face imbalances between PIM and no PIM data, complicating deep learning (DL) model training. The varying data distribution across cells adds further complexity. We propose a Federated Variational Autoencoder with Averaging Filter (FVAE-AvF) framework to address data heterogeneity, scarcity, and imbalanced data across cells in 5G networks. The Temporal Augmentation Variational Long Short-Term Memory (TAVLNet) serves as the local model, generating temporally coherent synthetic PIM data, while an Averaging Filter (AvF) ensures smoother data generation. For PIM detection, Vision Transformers (ViTs) are employed. Training them on the synthetic data generated from the FVAEAvF significantly improves detection accuracy and robustness. Leveraging federated learning (FL), the framework enables training without transferring data to a central location reducing data transfer costs and enhancing performance, particularly in managing non-IID data across distributed networks. It also allows cells with limited PIM data to benefit from the training on data from other cells, ensuring more effective model development. Numerical results show that the FVAE-AvF framework handles heterogeneous non-IID data better, improves detector performance with generated data, and enhances network robustness compared to existing FL and data augmentation methods.

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Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Simulation or modeling · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.951
Threshold uncertainty score0.228

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Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.025
GPT teacher head0.266
Teacher spread0.241 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it