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FedResilience: A Federated Classification System to Ensure Critical LTE Communications During Natural Disasters

by
Alvaro Acuña-Avila
1,
Christian Fernández-Campusano
1,*,
Héctor Kaschel
1 and
Raúl Carrasco
2
1
Department of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Santiago de Chile (USACH), Santiago 9170124, Chile
2
Departamento de Contabilidad y Gestión Financiera, Facultad de Administración y Economía, Universidad Tecnológica Metropolitana, Santiago 7500998, Chile
*
Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Systems 2025, 13(10), 866; https://doi.org/10.3390/systems13100866
Submission received: 12 August 2025 / Revised: 23 September 2025 / Accepted: 30 September 2025 / Published: 2 October 2025
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Data-Driven Decision Making for Complex Systems)

Abstract

Natural disasters can disrupt communication services, leading to severe consequences in emergencies. Maintaining connectivity and communication quality during crises is crucial for coordinating rescues, providing critical information, and ensuring reliable and secure service. This study proposes FedResilience, a Federated Learning (FL) system for classifying Long-Term Evolution (LTE) network coverage in both normal operation and natural disaster scenarios. A three-tier architecture is implemented: (i) edge nodes, (ii) a central aggregation server, and (iii) a batch processing interface. Five FL aggregation methods (FedAvg, FedProx, FedAdam, FedYogi, and FedAdagrad) were evaluated under normal conditions and disaster simulations. The results show that FedAdam outperforms the other methods under normal conditions, achieving an F1 score of 0.7271 and a Global System Adherence (SAglobal) of 91.51%. In disaster scenarios, FedProx was superior, with an F1 score of 0.7946 and SAglobal of 61.73%. The innovation in this study is the introduction of the System Adherence (SA) metric to evaluate the predictive fidelity of the model. The system demonstrated robustness against Non-Independent and Identically Distributed (non-IID) data distributions and the ability to handle significant class imbalances. FedResilience serves as a tool for companies to implement automated corrective actions, contributing to the predictive maintenance of LTE networks through FL while preserving data privacy.
Keywords: Federated Learning; data privacy; non-IID distribution; adherence to federated learning; Natural Disasters; Bhattacharyya distances Federated Learning; data privacy; non-IID distribution; adherence to federated learning; Natural Disasters; Bhattacharyya distances

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Acuña-Avila, A.; Fernández-Campusano, C.; Kaschel, H.; Carrasco, R. FedResilience: A Federated Classification System to Ensure Critical LTE Communications During Natural Disasters. Systems 2025, 13, 866. https://doi.org/10.3390/systems13100866

AMA Style

Acuña-Avila A, Fernández-Campusano C, Kaschel H, Carrasco R. FedResilience: A Federated Classification System to Ensure Critical LTE Communications During Natural Disasters. Systems. 2025; 13(10):866. https://doi.org/10.3390/systems13100866

Chicago/Turabian Style

Acuña-Avila, Alvaro, Christian Fernández-Campusano, Héctor Kaschel, and Raúl Carrasco. 2025. "FedResilience: A Federated Classification System to Ensure Critical LTE Communications During Natural Disasters" Systems 13, no. 10: 866. https://doi.org/10.3390/systems13100866

APA Style

Acuña-Avila, A., Fernández-Campusano, C., Kaschel, H., & Carrasco, R. (2025). FedResilience: A Federated Classification System to Ensure Critical LTE Communications During Natural Disasters. Systems, 13(10), 866. https://doi.org/10.3390/systems13100866

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