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Local Differential Privacy-Based Federated Learning for Internet of Things

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Zhao, Yang, Zhao, Jun, Yang, Mengmeng, Wang, Teng, Wang, Ning, Lyu, Lingjuan, Niyato, Dusit, Lam, Kwok-Yan·2021·IEEE Internet of Things Journal

Abstract

The Internet of Vehicles (IoV) is a promising branch of the Internet of Things. IoV simulates a large variety of crowdsourcing applications, such as Waze, Uber, and Amazon Mechanical Turk, etc. Users of these applications report the real-time traffic information to the cloud server which trains a machine learning model based on traffic information reported by users for intelligent traffic management. However, crowdsourcing application owners can easily infer users' location information, traffic information, motor vehicle information, environmental information, etc., which raises severe sensitive personal information privacy concerns of the users. In addition, as the number of vehicles increases, the frequent communication between vehicles and the cloud server incurs unexpected amount of communication cost. To avoid the privacy threat and reduce the communication cost, in this article, we propose to integrate federated learning and local differential privacy (LDP) to facilitate the crowdsourcing applications to achieve the machine learning model. Specifically, we propose four LDP mechanisms to perturb gradients generated by vehicles. The proposed Three-Outputs mechanism introduces three different output possibilities to deliver a high accuracy when the privacy budget is small. The output possibilities of Three-Outputs can be encoded with two bits to reduce the communication cost. Besides, to maximize the performance when the privacy budget is large, an optimal piecewise mechanism (PM-OPT) is proposed. We further propose a suboptimal mechanism (PM-SUB) with a simple formula and comparable utility to PM-OPT. Then, we build a novel hybrid mechanism by combining Three-Outputs and PM-SUB. Finally, an LDP-FedSGD algorithm is proposed to coordinate the cloud server and vehicles to train the model collaboratively. Extensive experimental results on real-world data sets validate that our proposed algorithms are capable of protecting privacy while guaranteeing utility.

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  • A real-world healthcare FL experiment in a network of 100 hospitals using clump thickness as physiological attributes shows low resource consumption and good privacy protection.

    “A real-world healthcare FL experiment is tested in a network of 100 hospitals with using clump thickness as physiological attributes for building training samples, showing a low resource consumption and good privacy protection.”

    From Federated Learning for Internet of Things: A Comprehensive Survey (2021) · cites this paper as [185]

    The paper describes privacy-protecting federated learning and a mechanism designed to reduce communication cost (p. 2). But its Experiments section (pp. 14–15) describes vehicle, activity-recognition, and census datasets—not a healthcare experiment involving 100 hospitals or clump thickness. The claimed setting and attributes are unsupported. (LLM, conf=0.88)

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Authors
Zhao, Y., Zhao, J., Yang, M., Wang, T., Wang, N., Lyu, L., Niyato, D., & Lam, K.-Y.
Affiliations
  • Nanyang Technological University (SG)
  • Xi’an University of Posts and Telecommunications (CN)
  • Ocean University of China (CN)
  • National University of Singapore (SG)
Venue
IEEE Internet of Things Journal
Published
2021-06-01
Volume
8
Issue
11
Pages
8836-8853
ISSN
  • 2327-4662 (ISSN-L)
  • 2372-2541
OpenAlex
W3106378891
Cited by
456
References
54
Citations by year
2026: 40 · 2025: 121 · 2024: 103 · 2023: 84 · 2022: 66 · 2021: 36 · 2020: 6
FWCI
18.86
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • IEEE Internet of Things Journal (publishedVersion)
  • arXiv (Cornell University) (submittedVersion)
  • DR-NTU (Nanyang Technological University) (submittedVersion)
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
Funders
  • Nanyang Technological University (NTU) Startup Grant
  • Alibaba-NTU Singapore Joint Research Institute
  • Singapore Ministry of Education Academic Research Fund (Tier 1 RG128/18, Tier 1 RG115/19, Tier 1 RT07/19, Tier 1 RT01/19, Tier 2 MOE2019-T2-1-176)
  • NTU-WASP Joint Project
  • Singapore National Research Foundation (NRF) under its Strategic Capability Research Centres Funding Initiative: Strategic Centre for Research in Privacy-Preserving Technologies and Systems
  • Energy Research Institute @NTU
  • Singapore NRF National Satellite of Excellence, Design Science and Technology for Secure Critical Infrastructure NSoE (DeST-SCI2019-0012, DeST-SCI2019-0007)
  • AI Singapore 100 Experiments Programme
  • NTU Project for Large Vertical Take-Off and Landing Research Platform
  • National Research Foundation, Singapore under its Strategic Capability Research Centres Funding Initiative
  • National Natural Science Foundation of China (61902365)
  • China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (2019M652473)
  • NRF, Singapore, under Singapore Energy Market Authority, Energy Resilience (NRF2017EWT-EP003-041, Singapore NRF2015-NRFISF001-2277)
  • A*STAR-NTU-SUTD Joint Research Grant on Artificial Intelligence for the Future of Manufacturing (RGANS1906)
  • Wallenberg AI, Autonomous Systems and Software Program and Nanyang Technological University (M4082187 (4080))
  • Singapore Ministry of Education (MOE) Tier 1 (RG16/20)
  • Alibaba Group through Alibaba Innovative Research Program
  • Alibaba-NTU Singapore JRI
Topics
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Privacy-Preserving Technologies in Data
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Internet Traffic Analysis and Secure E-voting
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Information Systems › Cloud Data Security Solutions
Keywords
local differential privacy, federated learning, Internet of Vehicles, communication cost reduction, intelligent traffic management, privacy-utility trade-off

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