Federated Learning(FL)has become a leading decentralized solution that enables multiple clients to train a model in a collaborative environment without directly sharing raw data,making it suitable for privacy-sensitiv...Federated Learning(FL)has become a leading decentralized solution that enables multiple clients to train a model in a collaborative environment without directly sharing raw data,making it suitable for privacy-sensitive applications such as healthcare,finance,and smart systems.As the field continues to evolve,the research field has become more complex and scattered,covering different system designs,training methods,and privacy techniques.This survey is organized around the three core challenges:how the data is distributed,how models are synchronized,and how to defend against attacks.It provides a structured and up-to-date review of FL research from 2023 to 2025,offering a unified taxonomy that categorizes works by data distribution(Horizontal FL,Vertical FL,Federated Transfer Learning,and Personalized FL),training synchronization(synchronous and asynchronous FL),optimization strategies,and threat models(data leakage and poisoning attacks).In particular,we summarize the latest contributions in Vertical FL frameworks for secure multi-party learning,communication-efficient Horizontal FL,and domain-adaptive Federated Transfer Learning.Furthermore,we examine synchronization techniques addressing system heterogeneity,including straggler mitigation in synchronous FL and staleness management in asynchronous FL.The survey covers security threats in FL,such as gradient inversion,membership inference,and poisoning attacks,as well as their defense strategies that include privacy-preserving aggregation and anomaly detection.The paper concludes by outlining unresolved issues and highlighting challenges in handling personalized models,scalability,and real-world adoption.展开更多
Federated Learning(FL)enables joint training over distributed devices without data exchange but is highly vulnerable to attacks by adversaries in the form of model poisoning and malicious update injection.This work pr...Federated Learning(FL)enables joint training over distributed devices without data exchange but is highly vulnerable to attacks by adversaries in the form of model poisoning and malicious update injection.This work proposes Secured-FL,a blockchain-based defensive framework that combines smart contract-based authentication,clustering-driven outlier elimination,and dynamic threshold adjustment to defend against adversarial attacks.The framework was implemented on a private Ethereum network with a Proof-of-Authority consensus algorithm to ensure tamper-resistant and auditable model updates.Large-scale simulation on the Cyber Data dataset,under up to 50%malicious client settings,demonstrates Secured-FL achieves 6%-12%higher accuracy,9%-15%lower latency,and approximately 14%less computational expense compared to the PPSS benchmark framework.Additional tests,including confusion matrices,ROC and Precision-Recall curves,and ablation tests,confirm the interpretability and robustness of the defense.Tests for scalability also show consistent performance up to 500 clients,affirming appropriateness to reasonably large deployments.These results make Secured-FL a feasible,adversarially resilient FL paradigm with promising potential for application in smart cities,medicine,and other mission-critical IoT deployments.展开更多
In federated learning,backdoor attacks have become an important research topic with their wide application in processing sensitive datasets.Since federated learning detects or modifies local models through defense mec...In federated learning,backdoor attacks have become an important research topic with their wide application in processing sensitive datasets.Since federated learning detects or modifies local models through defense mechanisms during aggregation,it is difficult to conduct effective backdoor attacks.In addition,existing backdoor attack methods are faced with challenges,such as low backdoor accuracy,poor ability to evade anomaly detection,and unstable model training.To address these challenges,a method called adaptive simulation backdoor attack(ASBA)is proposed.Specifically,ASBA improves the stability of model training by manipulating the local training process and using an adaptive mechanism,the ability of the malicious model to evade anomaly detection by combing large simulation training and clipping,and the backdoor accuracy by introducing a stimulus model to amplify the impact of the backdoor in the global model.Extensive comparative experiments under five advanced defense scenarios show that ASBA can effectively evade anomaly detection and achieve high backdoor accuracy in the global model.Furthermore,it exhibits excellent stability and effectiveness after multiple rounds of attacks,outperforming state-of-the-art backdoor attack methods.展开更多
This study addresses the risk of privacy leakage during the transmission and sharing of multimodal data in smart grid substations by proposing a three-tier privacy-preserving architecture based on asynchronous federat...This study addresses the risk of privacy leakage during the transmission and sharing of multimodal data in smart grid substations by proposing a three-tier privacy-preserving architecture based on asynchronous federated learning.The framework integrates blockchain technology,the InterPlanetary File System(IPFS)for distributed storage,and a dynamic differential privacy mechanism to achieve collaborative security across the storage,service,and federated coordination layers.It accommodates both multimodal data classification and object detection tasks,enabling the identification and localization of key targets and abnormal behaviors in substation scenarios while ensuring privacy protection.This effectively mitigates the single-point failures and model leakage issues inherent in centralized architectures.A dynamically adjustable differential privacy mechanism is introduced to allocate privacy budgets according to client contribution levels and upload frequencies,achieving a personalized balance between model performance and privacy protection.Multi-dimensional experimental evaluations,including classification accuracy,F1-score,encryption latency,and aggregation latency,verify the security and efficiency of the proposed architecture.The improved CNN model achieves 72.34%accuracy and an F1-score of 0.72 in object detection and classification tasks on infrared surveillance imagery,effectively identifying typical risk events such as not wearing safety helmets and unauthorized intrusion,while maintaining an aggregation latency of only 1.58 s and a query latency of 80.79 ms.Compared with traditional static differential privacy and centralized approaches,the proposed method demonstrates significant advantages in accuracy,latency,and security,providing a new technical paradigm for efficient,secure data sharing,object detection,and privacy preservation in smart grid substations.展开更多
With the increasing complexity of vehicular networks and the proliferation of connected vehicles,Federated Learning(FL)has emerged as a critical framework for decentralized model training while preserving data privacy...With the increasing complexity of vehicular networks and the proliferation of connected vehicles,Federated Learning(FL)has emerged as a critical framework for decentralized model training while preserving data privacy.However,efficient client selection and adaptive weight allocation in heterogeneous and non-IID environments remain challenging.To address these issues,we propose Federated Learning with Client Selection and Adaptive Weighting(FedCW),a novel algorithm that leverages adaptive client selection and dynamic weight allocation for optimizing model convergence in real-time vehicular networks.FedCW selects clients based on their Euclidean distance from the global model and dynamically adjusts aggregation weights to optimize both data diversity and model convergence.Experimental results show that FedCW significantly outperforms existing FL algorithms such as FedAvg,FedProx,and SCAFFOLD,particularly in non-IID settings,achieving faster convergence,higher accuracy,and reduced communication overhead.These findings demonstrate that FedCW provides an effective solution for enhancing the performance of FL in heterogeneous,edge-based computing environments.展开更多
The growing developments in 5G and 6G wireless communications have revolutionized communications technologies,providing faster speeds with reduced latency and improved connectivity to users.However,it raises significa...The growing developments in 5G and 6G wireless communications have revolutionized communications technologies,providing faster speeds with reduced latency and improved connectivity to users.However,it raises significant security challenges,including impersonation threats,data manipulation,distributed denial of service(DDoS)attacks,and privacy breaches.Traditional security measures are inadequate due to the decentralized and dynamic nature of next-generation networks.This survey provides a comprehensive review of how Federated Learning(FL),Blockchain,and Digital Twin(DT)technologies can collectively enhance the security of 5G and 6G systems.Blockchain offers decentralized,immutable,and transparent mechanisms for securing network transactions,while FL enables privacy-preserving collaborative learning without sharing raw data.Digital Twins create virtual replicas of network components,enabling real-time monitoring,anomaly detection,and predictive threat analysis.The survey examines major security issues in emerging wireless architectures and analyzes recent advancements that integrate FL,Blockchain,and DT to mitigate these threats.Additionally,it presents practical use cases,synthesizes key lessons learned,and identifies ongoing research challenges.Finally,the survey outlines future research directions to support the development of scalable,intelligent,and robust security frameworks for next-generation wireless networks.展开更多
The increasing number of interconnected devices and the incorporation of smart technology into contemporary healthcare systems have significantly raised the attack surface of cyber threats.The early detection of threa...The increasing number of interconnected devices and the incorporation of smart technology into contemporary healthcare systems have significantly raised the attack surface of cyber threats.The early detection of threats is both necessary and complex,yet these interconnected healthcare settings generate enormous amounts of heterogeneous data.Traditional Intrusion Detection Systems(IDS),which are generally centralized and machine learning-based,often fail to address the rapidly changing nature of cyberattacks and are challenged by ethical concerns related to patient data privacy.Moreover,traditional AI-driven IDS usually face challenges in handling large-scale,heterogeneous healthcare data while ensuring data privacy and operational efficiency.To address these issues,emerging technologies such as Big Data Analytics(BDA)and Federated Learning(FL)provide a hybrid framework for scalable,adaptive intrusion detection in IoT-driven healthcare systems.Big data techniques enable processing large-scale,highdimensional healthcare data,and FL can be used to train a model in a decentralized manner without transferring raw data,thereby maintaining privacy between institutions.This research proposes a privacy-preserving Federated Learning–based model that efficiently detects cyber threats in connected healthcare systems while ensuring distributed big data processing,privacy,and compliance with ethical regulations.To strengthen the reliability of the reported findings,the resultswere validated using cross-dataset testing and 95%confidence intervals derived frombootstrap analysis,confirming consistent performance across heterogeneous healthcare data distributions.This solution takes a significant step toward securing next-generation healthcare infrastructure by combining scalability,privacy,adaptability,and earlydetection capabilities.The proposed global model achieves a test accuracy of 99.93%±0.03(95%CI)and amiss-rate of only 0.07%±0.02,representing state-of-the-art performance in privacy-preserving intrusion detection.The proposed FL-driven IDS framework offers an efficient,privacy-preserving,and scalable solution for securing next-generation healthcare infrastructures by combining adaptability,early detection,and ethical data management.展开更多
Federated Learning(FL)protects data privacy through a distributed training mechanism,yet its decentralized nature also introduces new security vulnerabilities.Backdoor attacks inject malicious triggers into the global...Federated Learning(FL)protects data privacy through a distributed training mechanism,yet its decentralized nature also introduces new security vulnerabilities.Backdoor attacks inject malicious triggers into the global model through compromised updates,posing significant threats to model integrity and becoming a key focus in FL security.Existing backdoor attack methods typically embed triggers directly into original images and consider only data heterogeneity,resulting in limited stealth and adaptability.To address the heterogeneity of malicious client devices,this paper proposes a novel backdoor attack method named Capability-Adaptive Shadow Backdoor Attack(CASBA).By incorporating measurements of clients’computational and communication capabilities,CASBA employs a dynamic hierarchical attack strategy that adaptively aligns attack intensity with available resources.Furthermore,an improved deep convolutional generative adversarial network(DCGAN)is integrated into the attack pipeline to embed triggers without modifying original data,significantly enhancing stealthiness.Comparative experiments with Shadow Backdoor Attack(SBA)across multiple scenarios demonstrate that CASBA dynamically adjusts resource consumption based on device capabilities,reducing average memory usage per iteration by 5.8%.CASBA improves resource efficiency while keeping the drop in attack success rate within 3%.Additionally,the effectiveness of CASBA against three robust FL algorithms is also validated.展开更多
Federated learning often experiences slow and unstable convergence due to edge-side data heterogeneity.This problem becomes more severe when edge participation rate is low,as the information collected from different e...Federated learning often experiences slow and unstable convergence due to edge-side data heterogeneity.This problem becomes more severe when edge participation rate is low,as the information collected from different edge devices varies significantly.As a result,communication overhead increases,which further slows down the convergence process.To address this challenge,we propose a simple yet effective federated learning framework that improves consistency among edge devices.The core idea is clusters the lookahead gradients collected from edge devices on the cloud server to obtain personalized momentum for steering local updates.In parallel,a global momentum is applied during model aggregation,enabling faster convergence while preserving personalization.This strategy enables efficient propagation of the estimated global update direction to all participating edge devices and maintains alignment in local training,without introducing extra memory or communication overhead.We conduct extensive experiments on benchmark datasets such as Cifar100 and Tiny-ImageNet.The results confirm the effectiveness of our framework.On CIFAR-100,our method reaches 55%accuracy with 37 fewer rounds and achieves a competitive final accuracy of 65.46%.Even under extreme non-IID scenarios,it delivers significant improvements in both accuracy and communication efficiency.The implementation is publicly available at https://github.com/sjmp525/CollaborativeComputing/tree/FedCCM(accessed on 20 October 2025).展开更多
The exponential growth of the Internet of Things(IoT)has introduced significant security challenges,with zero-day attacks emerging as one of the most critical and challenging threats.Traditional Machine Learning(ML)an...The exponential growth of the Internet of Things(IoT)has introduced significant security challenges,with zero-day attacks emerging as one of the most critical and challenging threats.Traditional Machine Learning(ML)and Deep Learning(DL)techniques have demonstrated promising early detection capabilities.However,their effectiveness is limited when handling the vast volumes of IoT-generated data due to scalability constraints,high computational costs,and the costly time-intensive process of data labeling.To address these challenges,this study proposes a Federated Learning(FL)framework that leverages collaborative and hybrid supervised learning to enhance cyber threat detection in IoT networks.By employing Deep Neural Networks(DNNs)and decentralized model training,the approach reduces computational complexity while improving detection accuracy.The proposed model demonstrates robust performance,achieving accuracies of 94.34%,99.95%,and 87.94%on the publicly available kitsune,Bot-IoT,and UNSW-NB15 datasets,respectively.Furthermore,its ability to detect zero-day attacks is validated through evaluations on two additional benchmark datasets,TON-IoT and IoT-23,using a Deep Federated Learning(DFL)framework,underscoring the generalization and effectiveness of the model in heterogeneous and decentralized IoT environments.Experimental results demonstrate superior performance over existing methods,establishing the proposed framework as an efficient and scalable solution for IoT security.展开更多
With an increase in internet-connected devices and a dependency on online services,the threat of Distributed Denial of Service(DDoS)attacks has become a significant concern in cybersecurity.The proposed system follows...With an increase in internet-connected devices and a dependency on online services,the threat of Distributed Denial of Service(DDoS)attacks has become a significant concern in cybersecurity.The proposed system follows a multi-step process,beginning with the collection of datasets from different edge devices and network nodes.To verify its effectiveness,experiments were conducted using the CICDoS2017,NSL-KDD,and CICIDS benchmark datasets alongside other existing models.Recursive feature elimination(RFE)with random forest is used to select features from the CICDDoS2019 dataset,on which a BiLSTM model is trained on local nodes.Local models are trained until convergence or stability criteria are met while simultaneously sharing the updates globally for collaborative learning.A centralised server evaluates real-time traffic using the global BiLSTM model,which triggers alerts for potential DDoS attacks.Furthermore,blockchain technology is employed to secure model updates and to provide an immutable audit trail,thereby ensuring trust and accountability among network nodes.This research introduces a novel decentralized method called Federated Random Forest Bidirectional Long Short-Term Memory(FRF-BiLSTM)for detecting DDoS attacks,utilizing the advanced Bidirectional Long Short-Term Memory Networks(BiLSTMs)to analyze sequences in both forward and backward directions.The outcome shows the proposed model achieves a mean accuracy of 97.1%with an average training delay of 88.7 s and testing delay of 21.4 s.The model demonstrates scalability and the best detection performance in large-scale attack scenarios.展开更多
Recently,Internet ofThings(IoT)has been increasingly integrated into the automotive sector,enabling the development of diverse applications such as the Internet of Vehicles(IoV)and intelligent connected vehicles.Lever...Recently,Internet ofThings(IoT)has been increasingly integrated into the automotive sector,enabling the development of diverse applications such as the Internet of Vehicles(IoV)and intelligent connected vehicles.Leveraging IoVtechnologies,operational data fromcore vehicle components can be collected and analyzed to construct fault diagnosis models,thereby enhancing vehicle safety.However,automakers often struggle to acquire sufficient fault data to support effective model training.To address this challenge,a robust and efficient federated learning method(REFL)is constructed for machinery fault diagnosis in collaborative IoV,which can organize multiple companies to collaboratively develop a comprehensive fault diagnosis model while keeping their data locally.In the REFL,the gradient-based adversary algorithm is first introduced to the fault diagnosis field to enhance the deep learning model robustness.Moreover,the adaptive gradient processing process is designed to improve the model training speed and ensure the model accuracy under unbalance data scenarios.The proposed REFL is evaluated on non-independent and identically distributed(non-IID)real-world machinery fault dataset.Experiment results demonstrate that the REFL can achieve better performance than traditional learning methods and are promising for real industrial fault diagnosis.展开更多
In non-independent and identically distributed(non-IID)data environments,model performance often degrades significantly.To address this issue,two improvement methods are proposed:FedReg and FedReg^(*).FedReg is a meth...In non-independent and identically distributed(non-IID)data environments,model performance often degrades significantly.To address this issue,two improvement methods are proposed:FedReg and FedReg^(*).FedReg is a method based on hybrid regularization aimed at enhancing federated learning in non-IID scenarios.It introduces hybrid regularization to replace traditional L2 regularization,combining the advantages of L1 and L2 regularization to enable feature selection while preventing overfitting.This method better adapts to the diverse data distributions of different clients,improving the overall model performance.FedReg^(*)combines hybrid regularization with weighted model aggregation.In addition to the benefits of hybrid regularization,FedReg^(*)applies a weighted averaging method in the model aggregation process,calculating weights based on the cosine similarity between each client gradient and the global gradient to more reasonably distribute client contributions.By considering variations in data quality and quantity among clients,FedReg^(*)highlights the importance of key clients and enhances the model’s generalization performance.These improvement methods enhance model accuracy and communication efficiency.展开更多
In federated learning(FL),the distribution of data across different clients leads to the degradation of global model performance in training.Personalized Federated Learning(pFL)can address this problem through global ...In federated learning(FL),the distribution of data across different clients leads to the degradation of global model performance in training.Personalized Federated Learning(pFL)can address this problem through global model personalization.Researches over the past few years have calibrated differences in weights across the entire model or optimized only individual layers of the model without considering that different layers of the whole neural network have different utilities,resulting in lagged model convergence and inadequate personalization in non-IID data.In this paper,we propose model layered optimization for feature extractor and classifier(pFedEC),a novel pFL training framework personalized for different layers of the model.Our study divides the model layers into the feature extractor and classifier.We initialize the model's classifiers during model training,while making the local model's feature extractors learn the representation of the global model's feature extractors to correct each client's local training,integrating the utilities of the different layers in the entire model.Our extensive experiments show that pFedEC achieves 92.95%accuracy on CIFAR-10,outperforming existing pFL methods by approximately 1.8%.On CIFAR-100 and Tiny-ImageNet,pFedEC improves the accuracy by at least 4.2%,reaching 73.02%and 28.39%,respectively.展开更多
Mental health is a significant issue worldwide,and the utilization of technology to assist mental health has seen a growing trend.This aims to alleviate the workload on healthcare professionals and aid individuals.Num...Mental health is a significant issue worldwide,and the utilization of technology to assist mental health has seen a growing trend.This aims to alleviate the workload on healthcare professionals and aid individuals.Numerous applications have been developed to support the challenges in intelligent healthcare systems.However,because mental health data is sensitive,privacy concerns have emerged.Federated learning has gotten some attention.This research reviews the studies on federated learning and mental health related to solving the issue of intelligent healthcare systems.It explores various dimensions of federated learning in mental health,such as datasets(their types and sources),applications categorized based on mental health symptoms,federated mental health frameworks,federated machine learning,federated deep learning,and the benefits of federated learning in mental health applications.This research conducts surveys to evaluate the current state of mental health applications,mainly focusing on the role of Federated Learning(FL)and related privacy and data security concerns.The survey provides valuable insights into how these applications are emerging and evolving,specifically emphasizing FL’s impact.展开更多
With the rapid development of artificial intelligence,the Internet of Things(IoT)can deploy various machine learning algorithms for network and application management.In the IoT environment,many sensors and devices ge...With the rapid development of artificial intelligence,the Internet of Things(IoT)can deploy various machine learning algorithms for network and application management.In the IoT environment,many sensors and devices generatemassive data,but data security and privacy protection have become a serious challenge.Federated learning(FL)can achieve many intelligent IoT applications by training models on local devices and allowing AI training on distributed IoT devices without data sharing.This review aims to deeply explore the combination of FL and the IoT,and analyze the application of federated learning in the IoT from the aspects of security and privacy protection.In this paper,we first describe the potential advantages of FL and the challenges faced by current IoT systems in the fields of network burden and privacy security.Next,we focus on exploring and analyzing the advantages of the combination of FL on the Internet,including privacy security,attack detection,efficient communication of the IoT,and enhanced learning quality.We also list various application scenarios of FL on the IoT.Finally,we propose several open research challenges and possible solutions.展开更多
In the realm of Intelligent Railway Transportation Systems,effective multi-party collaboration is crucial due to concerns over privacy and data silos.Vertical Federated Learning(VFL)has emerged as a promising approach...In the realm of Intelligent Railway Transportation Systems,effective multi-party collaboration is crucial due to concerns over privacy and data silos.Vertical Federated Learning(VFL)has emerged as a promising approach to facilitate such collaboration,allowing diverse entities to collectively enhance machine learning models without the need to share sensitive training data.However,existing works have highlighted VFL’s susceptibility to privacy inference attacks,where an honest but curious server could potentially reconstruct a client’s raw data from embeddings uploaded by the client.This vulnerability poses a significant threat to VFL-based intelligent railway transportation systems.In this paper,we introduce SensFL,a novel privacy-enhancing method to against privacy inference attacks in VFL.Specifically,SensFL integrates regularization of the sensitivity of embeddings to the original data into the model training process,effectively limiting the information contained in shared embeddings.By reducing the sensitivity of embeddings to the original data,SensFL can effectively resist reverse privacy attacks and prevent the reconstruction of the original data from the embeddings.Extensive experiments were conducted on four distinct datasets and three different models to demonstrate the efficacy of SensFL.Experiment results show that SensFL can effectively mitigate privacy inference attacks while maintaining the accuracy of the primary learning task.These results underscore SensFL’s potential to advance privacy protection technologies within VFL-based intelligent railway systems,addressing critical security concerns in collaborative learning environments.展开更多
As AI systems scale, the limitations of cloud-based architectures, including latency, bandwidth, and privacy concerns, demand decentralized alternatives. Federated learning (FL) and Edge AI provide a paradigm shift by...As AI systems scale, the limitations of cloud-based architectures, including latency, bandwidth, and privacy concerns, demand decentralized alternatives. Federated learning (FL) and Edge AI provide a paradigm shift by combining privacy preserving training with efficient, on device computation. This paper introduces a cutting-edge FL-edge integration framework, achieving a 10% to 15% increase in model accuracy and reducing communication costs by 25% in heterogeneous environments. Blockchain based secure aggregation ensures robust and tamper-proof model updates, while exploratory quantum AI techniques enhance computational efficiency. By addressing key challenges such as device variability and non-IID data, this work sets the stage for the next generation of adaptive, privacy-first AI systems, with applications in IoT, healthcare, and autonomous systems.展开更多
Federated learning is a machine learning framework designed to protect privacy by keeping training data on clients’devices without sharing private data.It trains a global model through collaboration between clients a...Federated learning is a machine learning framework designed to protect privacy by keeping training data on clients’devices without sharing private data.It trains a global model through collaboration between clients and the server.However,the presence of data heterogeneity can lead to inefficient model training and even reduce the final model’s accuracy and generalization capability.Meanwhile,data scarcity can result in suboptimal cluster distributions for few-shot clients in centralized clustering tasks,and standalone personalization tasks may cause severe overfitting issues.To address these limitations,we introduce a federated learning dual optimization model based on clustering and personalization strategy(FedCPS).FedCPS adopts a decentralized approach,where clients identify their cluster membership locally without relying on a centralized clustering algorithm.Building on this,FedCPS introduces personalized training tasks locally,adding a regularization term to control deviations between local and cluster models.This improves the generalization ability of the final model while mitigating overfitting.The use of weight-sharing techniques also reduces the computational cost of central machines.Experimental results on MNIST,FMNIST,CIFAR10,and CIFAR100 datasets demonstrate that our method achieves better personalization effects compared to other personalized federated learning methods,with an average test accuracy improvement of 0.81%–2.96%.Meanwhile,we adjusted the proportion of few-shot clients to evaluate the impact on accuracy across different methods.The experiments show that FedCPS reduces accuracy by only 0.2%–3.7%,compared to 2.1%–10%for existing methods.Our method demonstrates its advantages across diverse data environments.展开更多
文摘Federated Learning(FL)has become a leading decentralized solution that enables multiple clients to train a model in a collaborative environment without directly sharing raw data,making it suitable for privacy-sensitive applications such as healthcare,finance,and smart systems.As the field continues to evolve,the research field has become more complex and scattered,covering different system designs,training methods,and privacy techniques.This survey is organized around the three core challenges:how the data is distributed,how models are synchronized,and how to defend against attacks.It provides a structured and up-to-date review of FL research from 2023 to 2025,offering a unified taxonomy that categorizes works by data distribution(Horizontal FL,Vertical FL,Federated Transfer Learning,and Personalized FL),training synchronization(synchronous and asynchronous FL),optimization strategies,and threat models(data leakage and poisoning attacks).In particular,we summarize the latest contributions in Vertical FL frameworks for secure multi-party learning,communication-efficient Horizontal FL,and domain-adaptive Federated Transfer Learning.Furthermore,we examine synchronization techniques addressing system heterogeneity,including straggler mitigation in synchronous FL and staleness management in asynchronous FL.The survey covers security threats in FL,such as gradient inversion,membership inference,and poisoning attacks,as well as their defense strategies that include privacy-preserving aggregation and anomaly detection.The paper concludes by outlining unresolved issues and highlighting challenges in handling personalized models,scalability,and real-world adoption.
文摘Federated Learning(FL)enables joint training over distributed devices without data exchange but is highly vulnerable to attacks by adversaries in the form of model poisoning and malicious update injection.This work proposes Secured-FL,a blockchain-based defensive framework that combines smart contract-based authentication,clustering-driven outlier elimination,and dynamic threshold adjustment to defend against adversarial attacks.The framework was implemented on a private Ethereum network with a Proof-of-Authority consensus algorithm to ensure tamper-resistant and auditable model updates.Large-scale simulation on the Cyber Data dataset,under up to 50%malicious client settings,demonstrates Secured-FL achieves 6%-12%higher accuracy,9%-15%lower latency,and approximately 14%less computational expense compared to the PPSS benchmark framework.Additional tests,including confusion matrices,ROC and Precision-Recall curves,and ablation tests,confirm the interpretability and robustness of the defense.Tests for scalability also show consistent performance up to 500 clients,affirming appropriateness to reasonably large deployments.These results make Secured-FL a feasible,adversarially resilient FL paradigm with promising potential for application in smart cities,medicine,and other mission-critical IoT deployments.
文摘In federated learning,backdoor attacks have become an important research topic with their wide application in processing sensitive datasets.Since federated learning detects or modifies local models through defense mechanisms during aggregation,it is difficult to conduct effective backdoor attacks.In addition,existing backdoor attack methods are faced with challenges,such as low backdoor accuracy,poor ability to evade anomaly detection,and unstable model training.To address these challenges,a method called adaptive simulation backdoor attack(ASBA)is proposed.Specifically,ASBA improves the stability of model training by manipulating the local training process and using an adaptive mechanism,the ability of the malicious model to evade anomaly detection by combing large simulation training and clipping,and the backdoor accuracy by introducing a stimulus model to amplify the impact of the backdoor in the global model.Extensive comparative experiments under five advanced defense scenarios show that ASBA can effectively evade anomaly detection and achieve high backdoor accuracy in the global model.Furthermore,it exhibits excellent stability and effectiveness after multiple rounds of attacks,outperforming state-of-the-art backdoor attack methods.
基金funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China,grant number 61605004the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities,grant number FRF-TP-19-016A2Guizhou Power Grid Co.,Ltd.2024 first batch of services(2024-2026 technology R&D services for science and technology projects(in addition to national and SGCC key projects)),grant number 060100KC23100012。
文摘This study addresses the risk of privacy leakage during the transmission and sharing of multimodal data in smart grid substations by proposing a three-tier privacy-preserving architecture based on asynchronous federated learning.The framework integrates blockchain technology,the InterPlanetary File System(IPFS)for distributed storage,and a dynamic differential privacy mechanism to achieve collaborative security across the storage,service,and federated coordination layers.It accommodates both multimodal data classification and object detection tasks,enabling the identification and localization of key targets and abnormal behaviors in substation scenarios while ensuring privacy protection.This effectively mitigates the single-point failures and model leakage issues inherent in centralized architectures.A dynamically adjustable differential privacy mechanism is introduced to allocate privacy budgets according to client contribution levels and upload frequencies,achieving a personalized balance between model performance and privacy protection.Multi-dimensional experimental evaluations,including classification accuracy,F1-score,encryption latency,and aggregation latency,verify the security and efficiency of the proposed architecture.The improved CNN model achieves 72.34%accuracy and an F1-score of 0.72 in object detection and classification tasks on infrared surveillance imagery,effectively identifying typical risk events such as not wearing safety helmets and unauthorized intrusion,while maintaining an aggregation latency of only 1.58 s and a query latency of 80.79 ms.Compared with traditional static differential privacy and centralized approaches,the proposed method demonstrates significant advantages in accuracy,latency,and security,providing a new technical paradigm for efficient,secure data sharing,object detection,and privacy preservation in smart grid substations.
文摘With the increasing complexity of vehicular networks and the proliferation of connected vehicles,Federated Learning(FL)has emerged as a critical framework for decentralized model training while preserving data privacy.However,efficient client selection and adaptive weight allocation in heterogeneous and non-IID environments remain challenging.To address these issues,we propose Federated Learning with Client Selection and Adaptive Weighting(FedCW),a novel algorithm that leverages adaptive client selection and dynamic weight allocation for optimizing model convergence in real-time vehicular networks.FedCW selects clients based on their Euclidean distance from the global model and dynamically adjusts aggregation weights to optimize both data diversity and model convergence.Experimental results show that FedCW significantly outperforms existing FL algorithms such as FedAvg,FedProx,and SCAFFOLD,particularly in non-IID settings,achieving faster convergence,higher accuracy,and reduced communication overhead.These findings demonstrate that FedCW provides an effective solution for enhancing the performance of FL in heterogeneous,edge-based computing environments.
基金derived from a research grant“Cybersecurity Research and Innovation Pioneers Grants Initiative”funded by The National Program for RDI in Cybersecurity(National Cybersecurity Authority)-Kingdom of Saudi Arabia-with grant number(CRPG-25-3168)supported by EIAS Data Science and Blockchain Lab,CCIS,Prince Sultan University.
文摘The growing developments in 5G and 6G wireless communications have revolutionized communications technologies,providing faster speeds with reduced latency and improved connectivity to users.However,it raises significant security challenges,including impersonation threats,data manipulation,distributed denial of service(DDoS)attacks,and privacy breaches.Traditional security measures are inadequate due to the decentralized and dynamic nature of next-generation networks.This survey provides a comprehensive review of how Federated Learning(FL),Blockchain,and Digital Twin(DT)technologies can collectively enhance the security of 5G and 6G systems.Blockchain offers decentralized,immutable,and transparent mechanisms for securing network transactions,while FL enables privacy-preserving collaborative learning without sharing raw data.Digital Twins create virtual replicas of network components,enabling real-time monitoring,anomaly detection,and predictive threat analysis.The survey examines major security issues in emerging wireless architectures and analyzes recent advancements that integrate FL,Blockchain,and DT to mitigate these threats.Additionally,it presents practical use cases,synthesizes key lessons learned,and identifies ongoing research challenges.Finally,the survey outlines future research directions to support the development of scalable,intelligent,and robust security frameworks for next-generation wireless networks.
文摘The increasing number of interconnected devices and the incorporation of smart technology into contemporary healthcare systems have significantly raised the attack surface of cyber threats.The early detection of threats is both necessary and complex,yet these interconnected healthcare settings generate enormous amounts of heterogeneous data.Traditional Intrusion Detection Systems(IDS),which are generally centralized and machine learning-based,often fail to address the rapidly changing nature of cyberattacks and are challenged by ethical concerns related to patient data privacy.Moreover,traditional AI-driven IDS usually face challenges in handling large-scale,heterogeneous healthcare data while ensuring data privacy and operational efficiency.To address these issues,emerging technologies such as Big Data Analytics(BDA)and Federated Learning(FL)provide a hybrid framework for scalable,adaptive intrusion detection in IoT-driven healthcare systems.Big data techniques enable processing large-scale,highdimensional healthcare data,and FL can be used to train a model in a decentralized manner without transferring raw data,thereby maintaining privacy between institutions.This research proposes a privacy-preserving Federated Learning–based model that efficiently detects cyber threats in connected healthcare systems while ensuring distributed big data processing,privacy,and compliance with ethical regulations.To strengthen the reliability of the reported findings,the resultswere validated using cross-dataset testing and 95%confidence intervals derived frombootstrap analysis,confirming consistent performance across heterogeneous healthcare data distributions.This solution takes a significant step toward securing next-generation healthcare infrastructure by combining scalability,privacy,adaptability,and earlydetection capabilities.The proposed global model achieves a test accuracy of 99.93%±0.03(95%CI)and amiss-rate of only 0.07%±0.02,representing state-of-the-art performance in privacy-preserving intrusion detection.The proposed FL-driven IDS framework offers an efficient,privacy-preserving,and scalable solution for securing next-generation healthcare infrastructures by combining adaptability,early detection,and ethical data management.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.62172123)the Key Research and Development Program of Heilongjiang Province,China(GrantNo.2022ZX01A36).
文摘Federated Learning(FL)protects data privacy through a distributed training mechanism,yet its decentralized nature also introduces new security vulnerabilities.Backdoor attacks inject malicious triggers into the global model through compromised updates,posing significant threats to model integrity and becoming a key focus in FL security.Existing backdoor attack methods typically embed triggers directly into original images and consider only data heterogeneity,resulting in limited stealth and adaptability.To address the heterogeneity of malicious client devices,this paper proposes a novel backdoor attack method named Capability-Adaptive Shadow Backdoor Attack(CASBA).By incorporating measurements of clients’computational and communication capabilities,CASBA employs a dynamic hierarchical attack strategy that adaptively aligns attack intensity with available resources.Furthermore,an improved deep convolutional generative adversarial network(DCGAN)is integrated into the attack pipeline to embed triggers without modifying original data,significantly enhancing stealthiness.Comparative experiments with Shadow Backdoor Attack(SBA)across multiple scenarios demonstrate that CASBA dynamically adjusts resource consumption based on device capabilities,reducing average memory usage per iteration by 5.8%.CASBA improves resource efficiency while keeping the drop in attack success rate within 3%.Additionally,the effectiveness of CASBA against three robust FL algorithms is also validated.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(62462040)the Yunnan Fundamental Research Projects(202501AT070345)the Major Science and Technology Projects in Yunnan Province(202202AD080013).
文摘Federated learning often experiences slow and unstable convergence due to edge-side data heterogeneity.This problem becomes more severe when edge participation rate is low,as the information collected from different edge devices varies significantly.As a result,communication overhead increases,which further slows down the convergence process.To address this challenge,we propose a simple yet effective federated learning framework that improves consistency among edge devices.The core idea is clusters the lookahead gradients collected from edge devices on the cloud server to obtain personalized momentum for steering local updates.In parallel,a global momentum is applied during model aggregation,enabling faster convergence while preserving personalization.This strategy enables efficient propagation of the estimated global update direction to all participating edge devices and maintains alignment in local training,without introducing extra memory or communication overhead.We conduct extensive experiments on benchmark datasets such as Cifar100 and Tiny-ImageNet.The results confirm the effectiveness of our framework.On CIFAR-100,our method reaches 55%accuracy with 37 fewer rounds and achieves a competitive final accuracy of 65.46%.Even under extreme non-IID scenarios,it delivers significant improvements in both accuracy and communication efficiency.The implementation is publicly available at https://github.com/sjmp525/CollaborativeComputing/tree/FedCCM(accessed on 20 October 2025).
基金supported by Princess Nourah bint Abdulrahman University Researchers Supporting Project Number(PNURSP2025R97)Princess Nourah bint Abdulrahman University,Riyadh,Saudi Arabia.
文摘The exponential growth of the Internet of Things(IoT)has introduced significant security challenges,with zero-day attacks emerging as one of the most critical and challenging threats.Traditional Machine Learning(ML)and Deep Learning(DL)techniques have demonstrated promising early detection capabilities.However,their effectiveness is limited when handling the vast volumes of IoT-generated data due to scalability constraints,high computational costs,and the costly time-intensive process of data labeling.To address these challenges,this study proposes a Federated Learning(FL)framework that leverages collaborative and hybrid supervised learning to enhance cyber threat detection in IoT networks.By employing Deep Neural Networks(DNNs)and decentralized model training,the approach reduces computational complexity while improving detection accuracy.The proposed model demonstrates robust performance,achieving accuracies of 94.34%,99.95%,and 87.94%on the publicly available kitsune,Bot-IoT,and UNSW-NB15 datasets,respectively.Furthermore,its ability to detect zero-day attacks is validated through evaluations on two additional benchmark datasets,TON-IoT and IoT-23,using a Deep Federated Learning(DFL)framework,underscoring the generalization and effectiveness of the model in heterogeneous and decentralized IoT environments.Experimental results demonstrate superior performance over existing methods,establishing the proposed framework as an efficient and scalable solution for IoT security.
基金supported by the Ministry of Education of the Republic of Korea and the National Research Foundation of Korea(NRF-2025S1A5A2A01005171)by the BK21 programat Chungbuk National University(2025).
文摘With an increase in internet-connected devices and a dependency on online services,the threat of Distributed Denial of Service(DDoS)attacks has become a significant concern in cybersecurity.The proposed system follows a multi-step process,beginning with the collection of datasets from different edge devices and network nodes.To verify its effectiveness,experiments were conducted using the CICDoS2017,NSL-KDD,and CICIDS benchmark datasets alongside other existing models.Recursive feature elimination(RFE)with random forest is used to select features from the CICDDoS2019 dataset,on which a BiLSTM model is trained on local nodes.Local models are trained until convergence or stability criteria are met while simultaneously sharing the updates globally for collaborative learning.A centralised server evaluates real-time traffic using the global BiLSTM model,which triggers alerts for potential DDoS attacks.Furthermore,blockchain technology is employed to secure model updates and to provide an immutable audit trail,thereby ensuring trust and accountability among network nodes.This research introduces a novel decentralized method called Federated Random Forest Bidirectional Long Short-Term Memory(FRF-BiLSTM)for detecting DDoS attacks,utilizing the advanced Bidirectional Long Short-Term Memory Networks(BiLSTMs)to analyze sequences in both forward and backward directions.The outcome shows the proposed model achieves a mean accuracy of 97.1%with an average training delay of 88.7 s and testing delay of 21.4 s.The model demonstrates scalability and the best detection performance in large-scale attack scenarios.
基金supported in part by National key R&D projects(2024YFB4207203)National Natural Science Foundation of China(52401376)+3 种基金the Zhejiang Provincial Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant(No.LTGG24F030004)Hangzhou Key Scientific Research Plan Project(2024SZD1A24)“Pioneer”and“Leading Goose”R&DProgramof Zhejiang(2024C03254,2023C03154)Jiangxi Provincial Gan-Po Elite Support Program(Major Academic and Technical Leaders Cultivation Project,20243BCE51180).
文摘Recently,Internet ofThings(IoT)has been increasingly integrated into the automotive sector,enabling the development of diverse applications such as the Internet of Vehicles(IoV)and intelligent connected vehicles.Leveraging IoVtechnologies,operational data fromcore vehicle components can be collected and analyzed to construct fault diagnosis models,thereby enhancing vehicle safety.However,automakers often struggle to acquire sufficient fault data to support effective model training.To address this challenge,a robust and efficient federated learning method(REFL)is constructed for machinery fault diagnosis in collaborative IoV,which can organize multiple companies to collaboratively develop a comprehensive fault diagnosis model while keeping their data locally.In the REFL,the gradient-based adversary algorithm is first introduced to the fault diagnosis field to enhance the deep learning model robustness.Moreover,the adaptive gradient processing process is designed to improve the model training speed and ensure the model accuracy under unbalance data scenarios.The proposed REFL is evaluated on non-independent and identically distributed(non-IID)real-world machinery fault dataset.Experiment results demonstrate that the REFL can achieve better performance than traditional learning methods and are promising for real industrial fault diagnosis.
文摘In non-independent and identically distributed(non-IID)data environments,model performance often degrades significantly.To address this issue,two improvement methods are proposed:FedReg and FedReg^(*).FedReg is a method based on hybrid regularization aimed at enhancing federated learning in non-IID scenarios.It introduces hybrid regularization to replace traditional L2 regularization,combining the advantages of L1 and L2 regularization to enable feature selection while preventing overfitting.This method better adapts to the diverse data distributions of different clients,improving the overall model performance.FedReg^(*)combines hybrid regularization with weighted model aggregation.In addition to the benefits of hybrid regularization,FedReg^(*)applies a weighted averaging method in the model aggregation process,calculating weights based on the cosine similarity between each client gradient and the global gradient to more reasonably distribute client contributions.By considering variations in data quality and quantity among clients,FedReg^(*)highlights the importance of key clients and enhances the model’s generalization performance.These improvement methods enhance model accuracy and communication efficiency.
基金supported in part by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(62472032)the Young Elite Scientists Sponsorship Program by CAST(2023QNRC001)the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities and Research Innovation Project of China University of Political Science and Law(21ZFY52001)。
文摘In federated learning(FL),the distribution of data across different clients leads to the degradation of global model performance in training.Personalized Federated Learning(pFL)can address this problem through global model personalization.Researches over the past few years have calibrated differences in weights across the entire model or optimized only individual layers of the model without considering that different layers of the whole neural network have different utilities,resulting in lagged model convergence and inadequate personalization in non-IID data.In this paper,we propose model layered optimization for feature extractor and classifier(pFedEC),a novel pFL training framework personalized for different layers of the model.Our study divides the model layers into the feature extractor and classifier.We initialize the model's classifiers during model training,while making the local model's feature extractors learn the representation of the global model's feature extractors to correct each client's local training,integrating the utilities of the different layers in the entire model.Our extensive experiments show that pFedEC achieves 92.95%accuracy on CIFAR-10,outperforming existing pFL methods by approximately 1.8%.On CIFAR-100 and Tiny-ImageNet,pFedEC improves the accuracy by at least 4.2%,reaching 73.02%and 28.39%,respectively.
文摘Mental health is a significant issue worldwide,and the utilization of technology to assist mental health has seen a growing trend.This aims to alleviate the workload on healthcare professionals and aid individuals.Numerous applications have been developed to support the challenges in intelligent healthcare systems.However,because mental health data is sensitive,privacy concerns have emerged.Federated learning has gotten some attention.This research reviews the studies on federated learning and mental health related to solving the issue of intelligent healthcare systems.It explores various dimensions of federated learning in mental health,such as datasets(their types and sources),applications categorized based on mental health symptoms,federated mental health frameworks,federated machine learning,federated deep learning,and the benefits of federated learning in mental health applications.This research conducts surveys to evaluate the current state of mental health applications,mainly focusing on the role of Federated Learning(FL)and related privacy and data security concerns.The survey provides valuable insights into how these applications are emerging and evolving,specifically emphasizing FL’s impact.
基金supported by the Shandong Province Science and Technology Project(2023TSGC0509,2022TSGC2234)Qingdao Science and Technology Plan Project(23-1-5-yqpy-2-qy)Open Topic Grants of Anhui Province Key Laboratory of Intelligent Building&Building Energy Saving,Anhui Jianzhu University(IBES2024KF08).
文摘With the rapid development of artificial intelligence,the Internet of Things(IoT)can deploy various machine learning algorithms for network and application management.In the IoT environment,many sensors and devices generatemassive data,but data security and privacy protection have become a serious challenge.Federated learning(FL)can achieve many intelligent IoT applications by training models on local devices and allowing AI training on distributed IoT devices without data sharing.This review aims to deeply explore the combination of FL and the IoT,and analyze the application of federated learning in the IoT from the aspects of security and privacy protection.In this paper,we first describe the potential advantages of FL and the challenges faced by current IoT systems in the fields of network burden and privacy security.Next,we focus on exploring and analyzing the advantages of the combination of FL on the Internet,including privacy security,attack detection,efficient communication of the IoT,and enhanced learning quality.We also list various application scenarios of FL on the IoT.Finally,we propose several open research challenges and possible solutions.
基金supported by Systematic Major Project of Shuohuang Railway Development Co.,Ltd.,National Energy Group(Grant Number:SHTL-23-31)Beijing Natural Science Foundation(U22B2027).
文摘In the realm of Intelligent Railway Transportation Systems,effective multi-party collaboration is crucial due to concerns over privacy and data silos.Vertical Federated Learning(VFL)has emerged as a promising approach to facilitate such collaboration,allowing diverse entities to collectively enhance machine learning models without the need to share sensitive training data.However,existing works have highlighted VFL’s susceptibility to privacy inference attacks,where an honest but curious server could potentially reconstruct a client’s raw data from embeddings uploaded by the client.This vulnerability poses a significant threat to VFL-based intelligent railway transportation systems.In this paper,we introduce SensFL,a novel privacy-enhancing method to against privacy inference attacks in VFL.Specifically,SensFL integrates regularization of the sensitivity of embeddings to the original data into the model training process,effectively limiting the information contained in shared embeddings.By reducing the sensitivity of embeddings to the original data,SensFL can effectively resist reverse privacy attacks and prevent the reconstruction of the original data from the embeddings.Extensive experiments were conducted on four distinct datasets and three different models to demonstrate the efficacy of SensFL.Experiment results show that SensFL can effectively mitigate privacy inference attacks while maintaining the accuracy of the primary learning task.These results underscore SensFL’s potential to advance privacy protection technologies within VFL-based intelligent railway systems,addressing critical security concerns in collaborative learning environments.
文摘As AI systems scale, the limitations of cloud-based architectures, including latency, bandwidth, and privacy concerns, demand decentralized alternatives. Federated learning (FL) and Edge AI provide a paradigm shift by combining privacy preserving training with efficient, on device computation. This paper introduces a cutting-edge FL-edge integration framework, achieving a 10% to 15% increase in model accuracy and reducing communication costs by 25% in heterogeneous environments. Blockchain based secure aggregation ensures robust and tamper-proof model updates, while exploratory quantum AI techniques enhance computational efficiency. By addressing key challenges such as device variability and non-IID data, this work sets the stage for the next generation of adaptive, privacy-first AI systems, with applications in IoT, healthcare, and autonomous systems.
基金supported by the Foundation of President of Hebei University(XZJJ202303).
文摘Federated learning is a machine learning framework designed to protect privacy by keeping training data on clients’devices without sharing private data.It trains a global model through collaboration between clients and the server.However,the presence of data heterogeneity can lead to inefficient model training and even reduce the final model’s accuracy and generalization capability.Meanwhile,data scarcity can result in suboptimal cluster distributions for few-shot clients in centralized clustering tasks,and standalone personalization tasks may cause severe overfitting issues.To address these limitations,we introduce a federated learning dual optimization model based on clustering and personalization strategy(FedCPS).FedCPS adopts a decentralized approach,where clients identify their cluster membership locally without relying on a centralized clustering algorithm.Building on this,FedCPS introduces personalized training tasks locally,adding a regularization term to control deviations between local and cluster models.This improves the generalization ability of the final model while mitigating overfitting.The use of weight-sharing techniques also reduces the computational cost of central machines.Experimental results on MNIST,FMNIST,CIFAR10,and CIFAR100 datasets demonstrate that our method achieves better personalization effects compared to other personalized federated learning methods,with an average test accuracy improvement of 0.81%–2.96%.Meanwhile,we adjusted the proportion of few-shot clients to evaluate the impact on accuracy across different methods.The experiments show that FedCPS reduces accuracy by only 0.2%–3.7%,compared to 2.1%–10%for existing methods.Our method demonstrates its advantages across diverse data environments.
