EAFL published in ACM FedEdge-MobiCom 2022
Congratulation to Amna, her hard work has fruited into her first publication at the FedEdge Workshop of ACM MobiCom 2022. In this work, we consider the energy consumption across battery-constrained devices in federated learning which is largely unexplored and a limitation for the wide adoption of FL. To address this issue, we develop EAFL, an energy-aware FL selection method that considers energy consumption to maximize the participation of heterogeneous target devices. EAFL is a power-aware training algorithm that cherry-picks clients with a higher battery level in conjunction with its ability to maximize system efficiency. Our design jointly minimizes the time-to-accuracy and maximizes the remaining on-device battery levels. EAFL improves the testing model accuracy by up to 85% and decreases the drop-out of clients by up to 2.45X