Crate xaynet_mobile

This crates provides a mobile friendly implementation of a Xaynet Federated Learning participant, along with FFI C bindings for building applications in languages that can use C bindings.

The Participant provided by this crate is mobile friendly because the caller has a lot of control on how to drive the participant execution. You can regularly pause the execution of the participant, save it, and later restore it and continue the execution. When running on a device that is low on battery or does not have access to Wi-Fi for instance, it can be useful to be able to pause the participant.

This control comes at a complexity cost though. Usually, a participant is split two:

• a task that executes a state machine that implements the PET protocol and emit notifications.
• a task that react to these events, for instance by downloading the latest global model at the end of a round, or trains a new model when the participant has been selected for the update task.

The task that executes the PET protocol usually runs in background and we have little control over it. This is a problem on mobile environment:

• first, the app may be killed at any moment and we'd lose the participant state
• second we don't really want a background task to potentially perform CPU heavy or network heavy operations without having a say since it may drain the battery or consume too much data.

To solve this problem, the Participant provided in this crate embeds the PET state machine, and it's the caller responsibility to drive its execution (see Participant::tick())

Modules

ffi

Macros

into_primitives

Structs

Events	A receiver for events emitted by the participant internal state machine
Notifier	Event sender that is passed to the participant internal state machine for emitting notification
Participant	A participant. It embeds an internal state machine that executes the PET protocol. However, it is the caller's responsibility to drive this state machine by calling Participant::tick(), and to take action when the participant state changes.
Settings	A participant settings

Enums

ClientError	Error returned upon failing to instantiate a new xaynet_sdk::client::Client
Event	Event emitted by the participant internal state machine as it advances through the PET protocol
InitError	Error that can occur when instantiating a new Participant, either with Participant::new() or Participant::restore()
SettingsError	Error returned when the settings are invalid
Task	Represent the participant current task