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An Improved Federated Learning Algorithm for Privacy-Preserving in Cybertwin-Driven 6G System
IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics
  • Miao Yang, ShanghaiTech University
  • Ximin Wang, ShanghaiTech University
  • Hua Qian, Shanghai Advanced Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences
  • Yongxin Zhu, Shanghai Advanced Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences
  • Hongbin Zhu, ShanghaiTech University
  • Mohsen Guizani, Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence
  • Victor Chang, Teesside University
Document Type
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Abstract

In this paper, we tackle the privacy issue in cybertwin with federated learning (FL), which exploits clients to collaboratively train a machine learning (ML) model without the awareness of private data. We develop an estimation scheme to reveal the data distribution of local dataset residing in the clients without the awareness of private data. We consider two scenarios in FL: 1) the server could receive the individual trained model for each selected device; 2) the server could receive the aggregated model from the selected clients. We formulate two device selection problems for training performance improvement. We develop two online learning algorithms to tackle the selection problems for both individual model uploading and aggregated model uploading. The proposed algorithms are demonstrated, aiming to avoid privacy leakage and extra computation in the clients for 6G. We validate the effectiveness of the proposed client selection algorithms with sufficient experiments in cybertwin-driven 6G networks.

DOI
10.1109/TII.2022.3149516
Publication Date
2-18-2022
Keywords
  • 6G mobile communication,
  • client selection,
  • Computational modeling,
  • Cybertwin-driven 6G,
  • Data models,
  • Data privacy,
  • federated learning,
  • imbalanced distribution,
  • Performance evaluation,
  • privacy-preserving,
  • Servers,
  • Training
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Citation Information
M. Yang et al., "An Improved Federated Learning Algorithm for Privacy Preserving in Cybertwin-Driven 6G System," in IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, vol. 18, no. 10, pp. 6733-6742, Oct. 2022, doi: 10.1109/TII.2022.3149516.